I drove over an MMDA officer’s foot on my birthday

Posted by Frances on January 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

I just had to share this… not all traffic enforcers are after your money, and not all grad students are smart. :D

I expected nothing outside the ordinary for Jan 28 (since I kept my birthday low-profile) but life is full of surprises. After attending the Philosophy Department’s Forum on A Love Story, instead of going home via C5, I passed in EDSA so that I could drop off Vanessa, who was my resource person in our English class.

I missed the turn going to Ortigas so I went straight until the stoplight at the corner of Meralco Avenue and EDSA. The MMDA officer was walking towards the car. “Fantastic,” I thought, “I’m unfamiliar with this area so I need to ask him if I can turn left.” It was not what I thought it was– he was there to catch me! Apparently there was a sign which said that private vehicles were not allowed in that area, we should have taken the U-turn a few meters back.

Darn! I had to get fined on my birthday. I didn’t want to bribe him so I tried to beg him to let me go since it is my birthday. He examined my driver’s license closely to find out if I’m not lying, and guess what? That made things worse: my license expired that very day! So instead of being fined 500, I’d be fined 900! Then I thought things couldn’t get worse than this, until…

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