I really, really hate Bayani and the MMDA

THIS IS AN EMAIL I SENT TODAY:

dirty tricks
Sunday, September 13, 2009 1:13:52 AM
From:
Bravo Becky

To: bayanibf_fernando@yahoo.com

On August 27, one of your traffic aides pulled me over for taking a right turn into edsa from ermin garcia. He said I had gone the wrong way on a one-way street and pointed to the post where the "one way" sign was. I had come from Montreal and taken a left into ermin garcia intending to go to edsa; and there were no signs there indicating that Ermin Garcia had suddenly turned into a one-way street. I could have argued my way out of a penalty, but I decided to let him write me a ticket for 2,150 (for 'illegal counterflow' and dts, whatever the hell that means). Your traffic aide took his sweet time writing on a form that any numbskull with half a brain would take twenty seconds to complete, and then when I asked him what took him so long he answered "pinag-aaralan po namin ng mabuti". I don't see anything complicated about writing a ticket for a set of violations he had already anticipated before he even flagged me down; so the dill-dallying couldn't have been anything else but waiting to see whether I would hand him grease money. Which I didn't. I paid for that traffic ticket in full last September 3, only to discover on Friday the 11th that the "one way" sign on the corner of Edsa and Ermin Garcia is no longer there. You have cheated me out of my savings this month. You put your poster all over the place to show how great you are, but to me you're the guy who sends his minions out to screw motorists for their hard-earned money.

-becky bravo
anata wa totemo ijiwaru desu.  

The sentence above translates as "you're really nasty".  I regret that I don't know what the jap word is for "moron".  

I really hate Bayani and the MMDA

I would like to commend the Metro Manila Development Authority for the spectacularly idiotic job it did with the traffic on Commonwealth Avenue during the wake of the INC's Father Manalo. On Sunday evening, just before midnight, it took me more than two hours to travel a distance of less than two kilometers, because those nitwits closed the Quezon Circle-bound lanes to let the mourners take it over as if it were some kind of fairground. They split the Fairview-bound lanes between the two opposite streams of traffic, then allowed people to park their cars along the road AND let pedestrians weave around the morass of moving vehicles like clutches of escaping poultry. Only one car, in that congealed mess of hundreds, could get itself past that gauntlet every ten minutes. The geniuses at the MMDA tried to divide the road with dark-orange traffic cones that you can't clearly see unless you're the Six Million Dollar Man, so whenever a string of vehicles inadvertently crossed over the intended line because they couldn't tell where it was in the first place, a traffic aide came and moved the cones over like a helpless moron, and what ought to have been a straight line of traffic cones became a wavy series of s's. As a result of this Guinness Book-worthy example of boneheaded management by a government institution, I found myself, at one point, directly in the path of a humongous gas truck that was going the opposite direction.

I didn't reach home until after two in the morning. I hadn't had dinner, but I was already too tired to even get myself a glass of milk. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who fell exhaustedly into bed with this thought in his head. I hate Bayani and the MMDA.