WATERMELON LIES

Start:12:23am

Earlier, this afternoon, I committed my first accident on wheels.

We were distributing letters for our foundation day (inviting high school students to participate in our competitons), well that’s a part of my job description now, which is in the field of marketing. Our route is in the vicinity of nearby municipalities such as Mexico and Arayat.

The trip went out so good, though we missed some schools because they are having semester break, somehow, 50% of our target was achieved.

In our marketing trips, we have this term called “sidetrips”, where we go out of our routes. For example, there is this bakeshop where they serve delicious and cheap egg pie, we should not suppose to go there because it’s out of our route, but we did.

This time, our driver saw a plantation and a store of watermelons; he became curious so he parked our service along the way, placing it on hazard. I and my companion (who is a teacher in the same institution) is having this short conversation…then, “BANG”! A motorcycle bumped our service’s driver’s door. After, he slipped and crash on the highway.

Luckily, no one got hurt. Minimal damage was done on our service. On the road, I am thinking, whose fault is it? Primarily, it’s on the motorcycle guy’s end, we were parked well and our service was on hazard.

But I thought, we were supposed to be on an official business trip, is buying watermelon included on that business trip? If we are not parked there, maybe the motorcycle guy would not bumped us.

I raised this issue on our driver. I have a point right? It’s not that I’m a fault finder, but he must learn his lesson.

But here’s what’s wrong about our driver, he is a good company: lots of stories to tell and has a good humor. Pero makitid ang kanyang utak (narrow minded), after I told him my analysis of the accident, he rendered me an awkward silence. He always do that, hindi ka niya kakausapin at papansinin pag may kang nasabi na ayaw niya.

It’s given, it’s not a part of his job to talk to me all the time, but I don’t want that uneasiness linger between the two of us, especially we will be working together often.

So that this argument will end, I just told my boss that we parked because we have to urinate. See? I have to lie so that I won’t hurt someone’s feeling. That’s very Filipino, and very inappropriate. Sigh.

Pakikisama and all that is making me sick, sana nakisama din siya diba?

A quotation from Mean Girls, a movie:

There are two types of evil people in the world, those who do evil stuffs and those who see evil stuffs and don’t do anything”.

Oh, now I know, I became evil just because I don’t want to hurt anyone. I don’t want to be hated, but I don’t also want to lie, just for a good impression. Apparently I did. I hope this is the last time that I will do that. Hmmm.

End: 01:02 am