those men in yellow...

you wake up on a cold thursday morning. take a bath. get ready for work. play with your son. be intoxicated with his laughter. you get ready to leave the house with your husband. five minutes into the ride not far from your house, exactly in the corner of your street around 5 or so men in yellow. seems to be waiting for something. the street was bare with the usual flurry and rush of jeepneys, cabs and private vehicles. for some strange reason, the once busy street seemed lonely. it looked like a setting for a cowboy shootout.

so taking it as something unusual but won't affect you at all. you and your hubby
bravely travelled this bare stip of asphalt. but lo and behold, these men in yellow,
suddenly block your way. one man slowly approaches your vehicle in a sly and silent menacing way. you are still calm inside your vehicle. thinking nothing was wrong.

but then there was. apparently, the reason why this man in yellow approached our vehicle was that my hubby was not wearing his seatbelt. and the way that he mentioned
it was like we were the last people on earth who do not wear seatbelts.

we tried to point out that we just left our house and we were about to wear our seatbelts. but our reasoning fell on deaf ears.

it was so obvious that they were just waiting for their next prey with the way
that they stood right there in the corner of our street. and another thing that bothered me was that this incident only happened today. never in my existence in our area that there would be men in yellow at that time of the day and it wasn't even 8am yet! another thing that pissed me off is that our street may be bursting with traffic but it's not really a main road.

i would understand that they would do their job everyday on the same spot but
this was the first time! so hubby has no choice but to surrender his license and get
his ticket. (this only happens in makati and you wouldn't imagine the fine that he
has to pay just to get his license back)

what some men in uniform would do just to earn money. and on innocent motorists
at that!. why don't they apprehend those jeepney drives that DO NOT have
and NEVER used their seatbelts! it's obvious that some of them have those seatbelt but only use them as props or as an arm rest while they're driving? isn't it more dangerous for them? why can't they apprehend them? they're the ones that break the rules day in and day out but they still get away
from it.

this is really pissing me off and it sure did ruin a supposedly great thursday... how am i going to work properly if i'm this pissed?