The Un/Lucky Day

I was comfortably sitting in a couch at the GSIS Dumaguete branch, I noticed it was undergoing a major face lift. The freshly painted walls and ceilings of the building lingers on my nose. We dropped for a few minutes there, to inquire my mother's UMID card which she hasn't received up to now, four months after filing the application for the new identification system.

The lady teller gladly explained to her that they haven't received new id's for pensioners. Well and good, at least she is very polite to us and the rest of the members.

From a corner, several people queued on the kiosks to check on something. Others have their cards activated. In another end, I see people patiently waiting for their turn to the capturing machine for their new id's.

A sixty something lady approached me and asked to assist in filing up her application for the new id system. She hardly can't read. She said she left her eyeglasses in the house. I willingly helped Ms. Gloria to lessened the boredom of my poor vision. I was strucked with sore eyes for two days now. She thanked me. I smiled back at her and said, "It's ok".

We left the premises and rode back to my uncle's house for our lunch.

The unmanageable afternoon heat was lessened by the morning drizzle. I send-off my parents to the wharf to catch the 2:00 pm schedule back to our province. I boarded a tricycle to the market to take my ride for the ferry terminal to Cebu.

Oops! As we're making a left turn at an intersection, the tricycle side swept an old man crossing the street. A traffic enforcer immediately surfaced and checked the old man. He asked the driver, " Asa man ka nagtan-aw dong?" 

The teenage driver couldn't say a single word. He was deeply thinking the unexpected turn of events. I was thankful the old man hasn't suffered any damage or injury.

He managed to walk again and has the guts to shake hands with the driver, at that time still losing his spirits

I handed my fare to him and walked few meters to the market.

The experience rushed back to my head last night with full of what if's.