While on a Jeep

I just arrived and felt the inconvenience of traveling from our pier which is two towns away from our house.I’m a little bit irked or maybe disappointed, I dunno, but I’m always confused between the two.

My day could have started right, though I’m a little bit groggy from lack of sleep. I am one of those passengers who  disembark earlier and heed to the jeepney terminal, for simple reason– I want to arrive earlier, so  I could have more time to sleep and recuperate. That’s what I long, until this jeepney incident fret my adrenalin that leave me very hyper until now.

I hated being bamboozled and making me look like a fool. I don’t know if I could attribute most travelers credulity to being tired and weary, or maybe they just turned a blind eye, or there’s an unwritten law I’m not familiar with. As always, jeepney drivers took advantage from the horde of passengers that came in and again as always they overcharge.My normal self, as always won’t allow it and as always also, I insist on what is right.

I gave the exact fare when the driver asked for the balance, I pointed and read the fare matrix to emphasize it to him just in case he forgot about it, he gave me a flimsy excuse that according to him he parked in the terminal and I said,"  Naturally! That’s why I rode on your jeepney ‘coz you’re at the terminal and that’s the point and to think, I should have paid much lower ‘coz the terminal is very far from the pier." Then, I heard people mumbling something, as if I’m a very mean person and from their looks it seems I committed something grave, well I just ignored them for I’m already numb to that kind of reaction. So, it ended up everybody paying the overcharge fare, with me as the exception ‘coz "I insist "and I think the driver don’t want to mess up with me .

But what pisses me off are the people’s reaction. It seems they already knew about the system and they just concede on it and there is this one guy who demand for what is right and due then everybody thinks he’s rude,I dunno for what? I know it only worth a few pesos but how about to most who can’t afford much, will they just submit to what the majority agreed? Is this the unwritten system? Is being unusually submissive, the Filipino way of being obedient? I don’t know ‘coz everyone had their own answers.