Showing posts with label June spoke - The man on the road… March 10. Show all posts
Showing posts with label June spoke - The man on the road… March 10. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2012

The man on the road… March 10, 2009



Its 4am and I’m on the new laptop my dad gave me as a gift for passing the boards( now that is the universe at work , I mean I am suppose to take it this August and sure enough I will pass it , I have the gift from the future to prove it!) . I’m up reviewing again and well , from bringing my wife to her work in Gateway Cubao. Due to Non-DST(daylight saving tanga) her very early 5am schedule has now been moved to 4am which means we have to wake up at 2:30am everyday and I have to drive her by 3am! The trip going to the place was uneventful as I always pictured it but the trip back was another matter. I was nearing the bridge before Trinoma and everybody was happily speeding along with me , when from the distance I saw a man with long disheveled hair , his clothes appeared tattered in a few places. The man was very muscular and big as he lifted his arms in the pose of a savior, as if daring the passing cars to hit him. It’s a credit to everyone driving that time that he wasn’t hit at all. Imagine that we were driving at speeds of 100kph. He did slow up a lot of traffic and he appeared to enjoy himself as he taunted the nearing cars. Oh and did I mention he had a bottle of something on his left hand? The threat was there but he never seemed to hit any of the cars that passed him. The guy seemed to have a death wish as he stood in front of every approaching car, including mine. I saw his face grinning as cars desperately swerved away. I mean what kind of guy would get his kicks this way? I had three things running in my head. The first one is that this guy was drunk , the second was that he might depressed enough to stand there or the third , that he was just plain crazy. I would never know the answer to these speculations though since he was already an afterthought as I sped away on my way home.


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Note: This blog is proof that life doesn’t always turn out the way it is supposed to. I am still planning to take the boards and if the world doesn’t end this year then it would be February 2013. Hell or high water!