Car Trouble

When it rains, it pours. I had a week’s worth of rotten luck with our car, “Puti”.

Incident 1: Date: Friday, October 6, 7:00PM.
Violation: Blocking the Buendia-Ayala pedestrian lane.
End Result: Traffic Violation Ticket plus my driver’s license got confiscated. I have filed a complaint with the Makati City Adjudication Office and a hearing is scheduled on the 17th.

My thoughts: I was wrongfully charged. It was a little over 7PM when we were driving Eastbound through heavy traffic along Buendia. We were caught between yellow and red traffic signals as we were about to cross the Ayala-Buendia intersection, which naturally forced me to stop. But I couldn’t come to a complete halt immediately because of the cars that were tailgating me. And so I ended up blocking part of the Buendia pedestrian lane and had no way of backing up or moving forward. A traffic enforcer comes up to me, asks for my driver’s license, says some jibberish, doesn’t hear me out, and finally cockily gives me a ticket and says he would’t have given me a ticket if I had just said sorry and didn’t contest the “violation”. Yeah right! I did apologize and I didn’t even lift my voice. I guess some people really have selective hearing. And whatever happened to fighting for what you believe is right? See you in court buddy!

Incident 2: Date: Wednesday, October 11, 5:30PM.
Violation: Illegal Parking. The car was parked facing the wrong way.
End Result: The car got towed.
Damage: Php 1,000.00 towing and impound fee.

My Thoughts: My fault. Sorry. Guilty as charged. Tsk!