i’ve noticed how pinoys love to disregard/disobey/neglect simple ordinances and rules of conduct. straight in your face, man!!! here are some examples:
1. high school kids/aged people/yuppies/bums who cross busy intersections while the green light is still on or cross busy highways such as edsa, commonwealth ave, etc. given this kind of situation, i therefore conclude that the philippine government has been overspending in its continuous effort to install traffic lights and build footbridges. given the traffic situation in the country, these people are actually risking their lives in their effor to "save time" doing the shortcut. so much for poor drivers who would find themselves in a road accident because they hit one of these "pedestrians" who appeared right in front of their windshields all of a sudden.
2. public utility vehicle drivers who loads/unloads passengers just about anywhere, whether dead center of an intersection or dead center of a busy street. so who’s to blame on this situation? it is the driver who grabs at any opportunity of finding a passenger even if he’s vehicle is faaaaar from the road shoulder or the commuter who is in such a hurry to ride/get off that the slightest slowing of speed would be the chance for him/her to do such?
3. overspeeding drivers. so much for adrenaline rush. intoxicating. especially if one is riding an ordinary bus plying the edsa route. one needs not to go to enchanted kingdom. absolute roller coaster ride. early date with st. peter.
4. spitters’ galore. one would see them anywhere. maybe it’s some kind of an occult with a mission to spread germs/virus/bacteria. i remember a friend who once rode an ordinary puv (read: no airconditioning, open windows). the driver has this habit of spitting every 10 seconds. twas a windy day. make a guess. spit went straight to my friend’s face. talk about sars/meninggococcemia/other contagious diseases that is transmitted through bodily fliuds. one more thing: eeeeeeewwwwwwwww.
5. pissers by. somewhat related to passers by. they pass and they piss. try passing by a somewhat long stretch of wall and voila! be welcomed by the stench of piss. no further explanation. go see a mongrel.
there are many more filipin(o)isms that i’ve observed. maybe i’ll add when the inspiration strikes. i look up to the author who published the 12 ways to be a better filipino. i do hope filipinos are literate enough to read, comprehend and follow the simple things that would definitely help in uplifting the bad image of filipinos.
are we really going down to the dumps?
