The Side Mirror Story
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon commute, from Tacloban to Catbalogan, we were about 5 minutes into the trip when this thing on the dashboard caught my attention:
I smiled at the grammar. Oh yes, drivers are fun 'when they English themselves' haha!
But, my atrevida brain needed to ask the driver what it meant, in case I haven't heard of the latest marites and/or driver jokes circulating everywhere on social media. Da!
So I asked, and OMG, as in oh my gino-o ko!
It caused the dear driver into a serious story-telling for most of the two hour trip, as if his life was threatened to end. In a cracking voice, he even asked if I was a lawyer.
The story goes something like this...
Few days ago, a woman passenger ("Misis" as the driver refers to her) took this ride on Seat Number 2 (my seat). Without confrontation and without his knowledge, this woman allegedly made a complaint to his bosses at VS Grandtours. And the issue?!
That this driver, allegedly kept on glancing at that woman's thighs and knees, for the entire course of the trip. So driver was summoned by Grandtours Management, and he was asked to explain why he kept on glancing at the woman's thighs and knees.
And yes, he was threatened with a dismissal "if found guilty".
I was struck at the "passionate" story-telling. Because yes, his life was threatened in a way that he may lose his job. Ganoon lang?! So I asked more and learned that...
A driver has to keep glancing at both his side mirrors during the trip, to ensure safe travel. That is according to him. And that woman probably mistook his glancing to the right-side mirror, as him glancing at her thighs or knees! O eh... so what, misis?
I cannot judge this, because it has been decades since I last sat on a driver's seat, not even on a van. I do remember, and my attention has been called (many times), that: when I put my backpack on my lap, it covers a drivers' view of the side mirror.
Kumbaga... oo nga the "line-of-sight" would seem to pass or stray to that part of a person seated at 2A. But granting without accepting, misis inaano at naano ka ba?
Just my point-of-view, I didn't tell this to the driver: let's say he really kept looking at her thighs and knees, ano ang krimen? Hindi ba ang dapat pag-usapan eh kung ano ang suot ni misis? Kay-ano kita an tuhod ngan pa-a, considering that she was riding a public transport vehicle? So, naka-pekpek-shorts sya? Tas magrereklamo? Haruy!
Suddenly, a woman passenger at Seat No. 4 said, "nag-pi-feeling la ito nga babaye, sidnga imo boss"! Natawa ako doon on 2 counts - 1) I didn't know other passengers (at the back) were also intently listening to the driver's story, and 2) I like the phrase she used: "nag-pi-feeling" - meaning "feeling as if" - feeling as if attractive hahaha!
Let's pardon the grammar. Only the word "AT" is missing from that signage anyway, right? But, for a driver to post that on his dashboard, he must probably have a point.
Everyone at the back started talking about "Misis"! Driver don't know her name, but they egged him to describe this "Misis" hahaha! One said "kasima-ud". Another said "maturutaplung"!
It made my otherwise boring afternoon, a hilariously funny fun ride hahaha!
Any comment Misis Feelingera?!
But, my atrevida brain needed to ask the driver what it meant, in case I haven't heard of the latest marites and/or driver jokes circulating everywhere on social media. Da!
So I asked, and OMG, as in oh my gino-o ko!
It caused the dear driver into a serious story-telling for most of the two hour trip, as if his life was threatened to end. In a cracking voice, he even asked if I was a lawyer.
The story goes something like this...
Few days ago, a woman passenger ("Misis" as the driver refers to her) took this ride on Seat Number 2 (my seat). Without confrontation and without his knowledge, this woman allegedly made a complaint to his bosses at VS Grandtours. And the issue?!
That this driver, allegedly kept on glancing at that woman's thighs and knees, for the entire course of the trip. So driver was summoned by Grandtours Management, and he was asked to explain why he kept on glancing at the woman's thighs and knees.
And yes, he was threatened with a dismissal "if found guilty".
I was struck at the "passionate" story-telling. Because yes, his life was threatened in a way that he may lose his job. Ganoon lang?! So I asked more and learned that...
A driver has to keep glancing at both his side mirrors during the trip, to ensure safe travel. That is according to him. And that woman probably mistook his glancing to the right-side mirror, as him glancing at her thighs or knees! O eh... so what, misis?
I cannot judge this, because it has been decades since I last sat on a driver's seat, not even on a van. I do remember, and my attention has been called (many times), that: when I put my backpack on my lap, it covers a drivers' view of the side mirror.
Kumbaga... oo nga the "line-of-sight" would seem to pass or stray to that part of a person seated at 2A. But granting without accepting, misis inaano at naano ka ba?
Just my point-of-view, I didn't tell this to the driver: let's say he really kept looking at her thighs and knees, ano ang krimen? Hindi ba ang dapat pag-usapan eh kung ano ang suot ni misis? Kay-ano kita an tuhod ngan pa-a, considering that she was riding a public transport vehicle? So, naka-pekpek-shorts sya? Tas magrereklamo? Haruy!
Suddenly, a woman passenger at Seat No. 4 said, "nag-pi-feeling la ito nga babaye, sidnga imo boss"! Natawa ako doon on 2 counts - 1) I didn't know other passengers (at the back) were also intently listening to the driver's story, and 2) I like the phrase she used: "nag-pi-feeling" - meaning "feeling as if" - feeling as if attractive hahaha!
Let's pardon the grammar. Only the word "AT" is missing from that signage anyway, right? But, for a driver to post that on his dashboard, he must probably have a point.
Everyone at the back started talking about "Misis"! Driver don't know her name, but they egged him to describe this "Misis" hahaha! One said "kasima-ud". Another said "maturutaplung"!
It made my otherwise boring afternoon, a hilariously funny fun ride hahaha!
Any comment Misis Feelingera?!
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