Being Late Due To...

     For a 7am class, being late is an exception on most teachers as I experienced since I enter the parlance of academic life (opinion only, don’t argue). 

     But for us now, it’s the other way around. 

An obsessed teacher always checks our attendance without exception due to circumstances like heavy rain, traffic, burning our midnight candles if we have exams and the like. 

She had a great impact on us to wake up early as an early training as we face the real world 3 semesters from now. 

     As always, I wake up 5:30am to fix myself. 

Had a flexible type of a non locomotor action and stuffs like that. 

 I’m too sluggish when it comes to my personal necessities especially when I’m in the epilogue of my routine every morning. 

When it comes to food, I didn’t sacrifice my breakfast because I believe in the saying “Eat like a King in the morning”. 

 I usually put earphones just to have peace of mind from a dizzy early wake up.

These factors are on my control. I disciplined myself just not being late.

Beyond my control are the traffic, weather, and the attitude of jeepney drivers.

     Let’s concentrate on the attitude of jeepney drivers. I was always on the edge of danger of being late because of them.

 Everything seems to be so slow when you are in a hurry. 

So, I made thorough analysis why they don’t get that simple logic.

I don't understand why jeepney drivers have to do the following:

1. Call out to or even shout at persons standing by the sidewalk/ side of the road in the hope that those persons are potential passengers.

2. Stop at almost every single person standing by the sidewalk/ side of the road.

3. Stop for a long time at areas where there's a crowd.

     Because it's plain and simple: If a person is a potential passenger, then he/she would personally call the driver's attention - wave an upper extremity and head towards the approaching vehicle. Plain and simple. If people want to get on the jeepney, they'd do it. If they fail to call the jeepney driver's attention, then it's either they're not going to ride the jeepney, or they're not focusing on getting on a jeepney because they think it's the driver's responsibility (which really isn't) to call their attention. You flag down a jeepney, the driver stops, and you get on it. In an ideal world, that's how it's done.

P.S. I’m just hiding all the pain with a smile what happened after our Management class.  Super painful physically especially after 5 seconds of collision with that bastard iron beam along the Old Valentine.  Busy reading some notes for our exam in computer.

P.S  the first jeepney in the picture is one of the jeepneys I always avoided. What a coincidence!!!

till my next blogging... ;)))))))))))