Driving around Metro Manila can be extremely stressful. I believe that the gravity of its effect on your heart can be compared to having bulalo for lunch every day. Not really healthy.
Other effects may include broadening your cussing skills. You can now use words which refer to a certain part of the human anatomy, a pleasurable sexual activity, plus lots of creative adjectives and adverbs in one blurt-of-the-moment expletive. Not really good.
Sometimes, you just can't understand how some people on the road think, make decisions, or act. Makes you wanna ask them, "Kulang ba kayo sa iodized salt?"
Like those public utility vehicle drivers who stop at a dime as soon as they hear the words "Ma para!" to unload their passengers. Some don't even have the courtesy to maneuver to the right-most lane. And see those "no loading/unloading" signs? What part of it is hard to understand?
And those broken lines in the middle of the road, you're supposed to drive in between two of them, right? Can't the LTO stress that enough to those stupid taxi and FX drivers?
Oh and some pedestrians aren't faultless either. You know those overpasses? They were built for a purpose. No, those are not vertical barriers to prevent tall trucks from passing, dumdum. They were built so that pedestrians can be spared from getting run over by speeding vehicles and literally spilling their guts out. I would understand that some overpasses are dangerous especially in the middle of the night when you cannot really tell if you are going to come out of the other side of the pass alive. But in broad daylight, why can't people use them? There should be a law stating that if a person crossing a street gets hit by a vehicle, and the spot where he gets hit is less than 50 meters from a functioning overpass, then the driver should not be responsible for the accident.
Sometimes I envy my wife who doesn't know how to drive. At least, she doesn't go through the stress drivers are experiencing.
And while most people's ambition is to save enough money so that they can buy a second-hand car at least, my wife's goal is kinda different. Earn enough money so that we can afford to hire and maintain our own family driver.
Smart, isn't she?
5 comments:
driving in Pinas, totoo yang sinabi mo ako nga pasahero lang ay muntik nang ma heart attack.Yong driver nang bus na sinakyan ko ay parang high sa drugs, kenarera yong gasolina nang truck kaya bumaba na lang ako dahil sa takot ko.
Sabay pag nasabitan ka, kakamutan ka lang ng ulo... Tsk, tsk, tsk...
In our dialect, we say, "sa lugar lang," if we want to get off the jeepney instead of "para." "Sa lugar lang" literally means "in the proper place," meaning, the jeepney has to stop in the proper unloading area.
I was riding a jeepney one time and when I asked the driver to stop, he stopped right there in the middle of the street. My bitchiness got the better of me and I snapped at the driver, "I said sa lugar lang. Is this sa lugar lang? This is the middle of the street!" Then I stomped off the jeepney.
But if they want to pick up passengers, they do not mind the long line of other jeepneys already double-parking by the curb.
Talk about double standard!
kaya nga da best drayber in da world daw ay ang pinoy. talagang lahat ng kalseng challenge ay nasa mga kalye natin.
@nayeli
"Ma para" is just actually the shortened version of "Ma para sa tabi".
But what you said its true, when picking up passengers, most of them don't care even if they're causing traffic jams.
@mong
True, we may be the best drivers in that sense. But I don't think that's a distinction we can really be proud of.
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