It’s been a while since I’ve written.  It’s been a while since Tipoy has written too.    Anyway, I just wanted to share some very amusing experiences I’ve had with cab drivers.

Experience 1:

One day I was running late for a 9am training so I hurriedly hailed a taxi got in and barked my destination to the driver who seemed to me like a harmless man in his late thirties.  Boy did I underestimate him!  Mr. Suave pala itong si kuya!  He started out by saying, “Ma’am are you from Cebu? What’s your province?”  I thought, he was just being friendly so I said, “No I’m not from Cebu.  I’m from Negros Occidental.  How about you?  What’s your province?”  He said he was from Cebu so I thought he was just making small talk. Small talk indeed.  I was completely caught offguard by his next comment he said.  “Oh I thought you were from Cebu because Cebuanas are really beautiful and ma’am I believe your beauty is Class A.  (more…)

I’m writing this now to get this feeling off me.

How do you handle people who despite the fact that you’ve treated them well, go out of their way to be disrespectful.  Actually, I don’t think disrespectful is the right word, I think they think so little of you that they think they can give you an egg and say it’s a chick!  (In other words, they think they can fool you.)

It really gets to me how unjust life has become and that sometimes I’ve played with it too.  I’ve been tolerant of people because I know how they’ve also given much but my tolerance has somehow been abused.  I have been careful not to overstep the boundaries of people but it really gets to me when the very same people you’ve bestowed favors for don’t return the same favor to a colleague or even the same consideration to you.

To this person I’d rather not name:

Have the decency to come up front and say you can’t do it so plans can be made to work around it.  Don’t let others paint a beautiful and pristine picture of you which you can’t live up to.  Have the decency to give others the respect and consideration that’s been bestowed on you.  Don’t make it seem like you’re a victim of circumstance because you’re not.  We make our own circumstances and you’ve made yourself a victim of your own folly.