Sweat trickles down your forehead to your cheeks. Impatient……You are growing impatient. Once again you’re out in the hot summer sun, waiting for a jeepney to pass by you to ride towards school. But then, where is that jeepney you waited for? Time is running out, if you don’t get a ride at a time like this, you would be late. Such a hassle? Wished you had a car of your own?
Oh, how nice it would be to have a car of one’s own. No worries at all. You would be having a holiday off those jeepneys cramped with passengers. You would have a leisure of time in your own car, listening to music and feeling the air flow past you. Such benefits you would enjoy having your own car but, too bad you don’t.
Why not think of the benefits and advantages of riding the jeepney rather than of riding and driving your own car? It isn’t too bad to ride a jeepney. It’s just that waking up late lessens your opportunity in riding spacious jeepneys, experience tells me so.
As a student, it is my obligation to wake up early before the sun rises to catch a jeepney and get to school before the bell rings for the first subject. As I have experienced, it is really hard to catch a ride on jeepneys specially nowadays, because of the rising prices of commodities, people choose to ride jeepneys as it is affordable and they can save money. A trip of five kilometres would only cost you six pesos while driving your own car to a trip of five kilometres would cost you more now that oil prices are high.
In the jeepney, you sit close to people you do not know and experience things that won’t occur once you ride and drive your own car. Even if people who sit next to you are unfamiliar, you feel you know them. And these faces then look familiar to you as rides on the jeepneys progress.
There is a sense of bayanihan in a ride in a jeepney. This happens when someone tells you please to pass the money as payment of the fare to the driver. It gives me pride when a passenger next to me hands her fare so that I could give it to the driver and says “Thank you!”. It really warms my heart, because not all people get to say such words to you especially hearing it from people you do not know, it is just great how they get to say it even when they are busy thinking of work. The spirit of bayanihan is there when a jeepney breaks down and some of the passengers participate in pushing the car while the driver turns on the engine until it finally is able to run again.
Not so many events that happen in jeepneys, happen in private cars. It sure does take sometime to adjust riding a jeepney if you are used to riding your own car. You’ll surely experience slight differences.
Cramped as the jeepneys maybe, but what matters and what you should always look forward to is the ride. Who knows what will happen on the trip today?##
Oh, how nice it would be to have a car of one’s own. No worries at all. You would be having a holiday off those jeepneys cramped with passengers. You would have a leisure of time in your own car, listening to music and feeling the air flow past you. Such benefits you would enjoy having your own car but, too bad you don’t.
Why not think of the benefits and advantages of riding the jeepney rather than of riding and driving your own car? It isn’t too bad to ride a jeepney. It’s just that waking up late lessens your opportunity in riding spacious jeepneys, experience tells me so.
As a student, it is my obligation to wake up early before the sun rises to catch a jeepney and get to school before the bell rings for the first subject. As I have experienced, it is really hard to catch a ride on jeepneys specially nowadays, because of the rising prices of commodities, people choose to ride jeepneys as it is affordable and they can save money. A trip of five kilometres would only cost you six pesos while driving your own car to a trip of five kilometres would cost you more now that oil prices are high.
In the jeepney, you sit close to people you do not know and experience things that won’t occur once you ride and drive your own car. Even if people who sit next to you are unfamiliar, you feel you know them. And these faces then look familiar to you as rides on the jeepneys progress.
There is a sense of bayanihan in a ride in a jeepney. This happens when someone tells you please to pass the money as payment of the fare to the driver. It gives me pride when a passenger next to me hands her fare so that I could give it to the driver and says “Thank you!”. It really warms my heart, because not all people get to say such words to you especially hearing it from people you do not know, it is just great how they get to say it even when they are busy thinking of work. The spirit of bayanihan is there when a jeepney breaks down and some of the passengers participate in pushing the car while the driver turns on the engine until it finally is able to run again.
Not so many events that happen in jeepneys, happen in private cars. It sure does take sometime to adjust riding a jeepney if you are used to riding your own car. You’ll surely experience slight differences.
Cramped as the jeepneys maybe, but what matters and what you should always look forward to is the ride. Who knows what will happen on the trip today?##
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