Frustrated Driver?

Somebody placed a nail sidewise into the tire of my car. This has happened now for the second time since I moved into one of Manila’s best protected residential compounds two months ago.
Why do people do this to somebody they don’t know (yet)?
- Giant income gap: A driver makes about $200 a month and I am sure that he supports quite large families.
- Too much time: Drivers spent most of their time waiting to be ready to serve. If I would hire a paid driver I would only be able to offer him (it’s rarely a ‘her’) 30 to 35min of daily work (i.e. driving in the morning to work and returning in the late afternoon).
- Offensive dirty car: Sure, where my car is parked you will only see very clean cars. Most of the other cars are washed by paid drivers. Since I don’t have a paid driver, my car sometimes is dirty. Last Monday it was extremely dirty due to the fact that I just got back from a weekend in the countryside in the midst of the Philippines’ rainy season.
- Putting one, two and three together the conclusion might be that there is somebody telling me, if you don’t have a driver you might need at least somebody to clean your car?
- … or wasn’t it a driver at all?
Labels: Manila, Philippines, vehicles
4 Comments:
Is that your car? It looks like a truck!
I agree with you. Being a driver must be very, very boring sometimes.
Too much carbon monoxide, I suppose. Drivers spend most of their time in so-called drivers' lounges right in the middle of parking garages. Early symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include drowsiness, headache and result in placing nails into tires.
Hi Sidney,
It's a 4x4 SUV, looks and stinks like a truck but its pure fun in the city and absolutely necessary where I usually go on the weekends.
Hi Manila Babe,
you must be right it's insaneness caused by fumes...
May I ask you where you go on weekends? I will not stalk you but maybe you can give me some ideas for a weekend out of town...
Need to go out for a photoshoot soon to feed my photo blog... ;-)
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