tickledpink

yes, charmaine, i know this is overdue… hehe…

it was raining monkeys in makati and charmaine and i were taking a detour from our usual post-training glorietta fix. she was literally aching to get back to the inn because she had some serious crappy "business" to attend to. while for me, the thought of lugging two audit binders all the way to the mall was as appealing as a roasted frog.

so there we were in front of philam tower waiting for a cab. after what seemed like three busy seasons, we had come to discover that there were only three kinds of taxis in makati: (1) those that did not stop because they were occupied (2) those that did not stop because they had better things to do than pick up passengers (duh!), and (3) those that did stop, but never for US.

after an hour of standing in the rain, we were resigned to the fact that no taxi was going to save our sorry asses in the next few minutes. and rather than walk all the way to st. illian’s where god only knows what streets are flooded, we decided to grab a bite… okay, now this is where i tell you how amazed i am with charmaine’s self-control. an hour back, she was dying to attend to that "business" i was telling you about. but my, oh my! here she is eating a sundae on top of her mcdonald’s value meal. talk about will power!

just as we stepped out of mcdonald’s, a taxi stops to pick up a girl that hadn’t even been there for 5 minutes! the powers that be must be punishing charmaine and me for being tax collectors in our past lives…

a half hour later, we were still soaked and grumpy. i was whining about how badly i wanted to go back to cebu where the taxis actually stop for passengers, where the jeepneys won’t ever let you down, and where there is SOS!  [SOS, aside from being the most recognizable acronym in the world (i think), is a crime my officemates often charge me with.]  it was at this point that our predicament was simply too depressing that our fragile psyches decided to deal with it the best way we knew how - to laugh like crazy!!! we didn’t give a damn if, to the rest of the world, we looked like demented yuppies that had one beer too many.

then all of a sudden, a cwwaazzyy idea hit me. i sent an SOS: "it’s raining hard. i’ve been waiting for over an hour for a taxi. i need a ride home…" and then sinus, who had no idea i was in makati, called me and said that, yeah, he’d come pick me up. then i ask him if it was pouring in cebu city and he says…. NO. haha… that just made charmaine and me roll on the floor with laughter.

but what was creepy about it was that the second i hung up on sinus, a taxi magically appears out of nowhere and stops for us! now, i’ve been known to exaggerate things. but this isn’t one of them… 1 1/2 hours of no taxi and the second i end my SOS call, here comes a taxi to our rescue! if that’s not creepy, then tell me pigs do fly.

but our crazy night did not stop there.. i told the cab driver to go to paseong tamo and he says, "okay. just show me the way there." uh-oh. i mean, seriously, i’m kpmg’s biggest airhead when it comes to directions… charmaine and i looked at each other like what he really said was, "i had dog food and cat piss for dinner"… of course we had to pretend like we knew exactly where we were going or the driver would have given us a tour of makati…. to prove my point about having zero sense of direction, i was just about to tell the driver to turn right but fortunately, charmaine beat me to it. fortunately for us, because the right way was left.. haha…

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