Bad Habits of Some Educated Filipinos: Part 1
This is the first of what I envisioned to be a series of posts about the small, but important bad habits that some educated Filipinos exhibit during the course of their daily living. The focus is on "educated" Filipinos because, for sure, un-educated or illiterate Filipinos cannot read this post anyway. I am not excusing myself from these habits because I know that sometimes, I fall victim to the charms of these small evils.
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Sometimes we are too much in a hurry to cross the street that we take it upon ourselves to find the opportunity to cross in the shortest time possible. I am no exception to this, but, before I make any effort to take matters in my own hand, I check first if there is a traffic enforcer taking care of the needs of the pedestrians. If there is, I let the enforcer do his job.
I don’t know if some of you even bother to check for the existence of the traffic enforcer, but oftentimes, I see many people, especially outside the malls, openly display disregard on the authority of the enforcer by crossing the street even if there is no go-signal yet. Understand that it is their job to make sure that first, the pedestrians have a safe passage, and second, the motorists are not unnecessarily disrupted in their travel. Therefore, it is only proper for us, as a law-abiding citizen, to respect their authority and let them do their job properly.
If you were in the enforcer’s shoes, I’m sure you would be offended if pedestrians (and motorists) openly disregard your instructions not to cross the street. Key word here is respect for authority. You don’t have any license to complain about traffic enforcers not doing their job properly if you yourself do not respect their authority.
January 11th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
very strange we find it difficult to adhere to these rules & regulations in our own country. very different for those who migrated overseas, all of them model citizens.