We went out a bit late for the office last Monday, left home around 9AM. I was still doing my make up in the car and checking some slide shows on my mobile when I heard the husband murmuring something. I looked at him and saw him looking at the side mirror. There was tricycle beside the car, trying to overtake but was stucked due to a couple more vehicles coming. Hubby checked and said it was still good but when he tried to go on driving – skeeetcchhh, it hit! Awww! He rushingly went out to check and saw scratches on 2 panels (wow!). I heard him arguing with the driver already so I went out to see. The driver was even telling us that we were the ones driving away and that he isn’t moving. But goodness, we were on the right lane! A policeman saw us and instructed me to take pictures – which I did, of course. After that, we were escorted to the police station.
I was so surprise to see the police station, it’s creepy! It’s a total mess – like what we used to see in Pinoy movies. I do not want to elaborate our whole police station experience but I will definitely wouldn’t want to go there EVER AGAIN! The worst thing that day? The driver didn’t want to pay for the whole damage. So, we offered to share the repair expenses and would you believe? The nerve had the guts to say – “Where will I get money?” when in fact, he was driving carelessly on the road. The total damage expenses would cost 9,500 since we haven’t renewed our insurance yet but he said he’ll pay 1,500 by the end of the month? And our licenses will be held at that station until he’s able to pay it? For Pete’s sake! I wouldn’t want to risk hubby going in there to get his license! I decided upfront that he’s 1,500 would no longer matter if it’ll be paid on month end while our license is in there – we just let him go. And he was jumping with joy when he heard it. He tried to shake our hands but we declined.
I guess we had to experience the thing before we knew it. In the road, the king are those drivers who are earning a little, without worrying if they’d be punished when caught or even gets to jail. I do not want to demean them but goodness – they knew for a fact that private vehicle owners are the ones aggravated in that kind of situation! We have our work waiting for us, we don’t have time to argue with them at the police station, we don’t have time to go to hearing and we’ll even need to pay for our lawyers if we wanted to file a case against them! Who would be so delighted to do so??? In the end, we are the loser!
Oh and by the way, for that accident and to be able to get our license back – we had to pay 500 pesos at the station! Goodness! Damage + 500 to get your license because you were hit – only in the Philippines!
