This is me making a big deal out of a small thing.
On December 23rd, a friend of mine made plans to have a coffee get-together for our small group of 4 (yup, having coffee is the current norm for getting together in the various circle of friends I have, much the same way as the FRIENDS sitcom gang meet up at Central Perk).
As I currently have limited transportation means (read: I crashed my car a couple of weeks ago, and it'll take 5-6 weeks to repair it), I made a plea to have the coffee get-together at Rockwell instead of Fort. I've been hitching rides home since my car accident, and my drop-off point for my Dec 23 hitch is at Rockwell.
Me: Can we have it at Rockwell instead?
Friend: Fort na lang. Baka kasi ma-traffic dun e.
Me: Okay fine.
At 915 pm, after all the Christmas errands at Rockwell, I was finally okay to get going to Fort. So I waited at the mall's taxi stand. I was 7th in line.
Not so lucky number 7. 40 minutes later, I became number 6 in line. Goodness!
Friend, via sms: Alis kami ng 11 dito (Fort) ha?
At 1050 pm, I was still sixth in line. Damn.
So I decided to walk all the way from Powerplant Mall to EDSA (it's a good 20 minute brisk walking) where I was able to get onboard a bus.
Got home a little past midnight.
If the get-together was done at Rockwell, all of us would have been sharing stories and laughs instead of me standing and jigging with a dozen other strangers in a taxi stand outside Powerplant Mall.
And I didn't bother going to the coffee get together anymore. Nor will I attend any coffee get-togethers organized by this friend in the near-future. I realized that my worth as far as my friend is concerned is only as good as a 10-minute traffic inconvenience in Makati.
This is me making a big deal over a small thing.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a naturally good and understanding person. But occasionally, I do have some quirks both negative and positive. But those are what make me lovable and interesting, bwahahahaha.
By the way, belated Christmas greetings to all my readers! =)
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Sweating the Small Stuff
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2 comments:
hey, i can understand your sentiments. AND it's not a small thing, mind you. small thing for them to drive over to rockwell, but NOT a small thing for you to wait 2 hrs and walk all the way to EDSA just to get a bus ride.
P.S. next time you can also try waiting for a cab in front of seattle's best..
i am anonymous also but i'm not related to anonymous. baka anak sa labas ng papa ko yan. itago mo na lang ako sa pangalang anonymous para di na magulo :)
hehe alam ko yan kwento na yan.
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