Monumental Disaster Pedestrians

Driving everyday in Manila is hell. Everywhere there are abundance of idiot drivers and poorly placed road obstructions that are meant as U-turn slots. Aside from those mentioned there is a prevalent accident attraction that you see everyday, and these are the selected pedestrians you wish they are prancing around in a demolition derby, with guns.

I am not a fast driver, I am more one with defensive driving. I only use the car as a tool going from point A to B. Crossing pedestrians are a common sight on everyday driving but there are some pedestrians who are total dicks and rather risk both their lives and the ones in the vehicle. Kudos to the remaining pedestrians who knows when to cross properly or actually uses a foot bridge to cross the road, but avoiding sneaky street criminals atop the bridge is another story. These are the pedestrians you watch out for every single day.

Rush Hour Runner
This pedestrians who want to cross the road as fast as possible to the point of running as fast as hell, even there is a number of vehicles, all in a hurry for some reason, hurling towards you. Most of the time they will be hit and sadly killed on the spot.

Got Stuck on One Side
They are the ones who cross the road who does not look on other direction for some reason. They always look at one direction, mostly the opposite side and does not look at the other way. I don’t know why I always see them on both Legazpi and Salcedo side of Makati. One of the most important things to do before or while crossing the road is to look both ways. Having your neck stuck on one side will have a bigger chance to be… struck by a vehicle driven by a maniac.

Headset Head On
Similar with “Got Stuck on One Side” person, but this time, he is distracted to look both ways because the fool is on his head set, listening to some music, and oblivious around him. They are the ones mindlessly crossing the road, in a very slow pace, in deep trance with the music and not hearing the honks of vehicles blaring all over the place.

Middle of the Road Loaders, Motherfu….
I loathed rampaging buses in EDSA, but combine with this imbeciles, you are closer for more accidents. This kind of people will flag down a public vehicle like a bus in the middle of the road, and ascend the vehicle, still in the middle of the road, while other blood thirsty drivers throwing themselves in the road in scary, rush hour fast manner. Jeepneys are notorious of loading and unloading passengers in the middle of the road. There are times I see a mother carrying her infant, running in the middle of EDSA, just to ascend the bus she flagged down.

Footbridge Allergic Scumbags
The footbridge is one of the safest way to cross the street. Yet, this imbeciles who has obvious footbridge allergy will not use one, even if it is only few meters away. According to these idiots, its faster to cross the road rather than use the footbridge. It is someway true but you are always at death’s door whenever you attempt to cross a Manila street. Use the goddamn footbridge for god freaking sake.

Irresponsible and careless pedestrians can create monumental disasters on the road. There are a lot of simple but 100% effective ways to cross the street, like using the right pedestrian lane and usage of a footbridge or like in Makati, an underpass. Next time you walk around and attempt to cross the road, just stop and ask yourself if I do this may I live another day? if you immediately find a better solution to cross the road, without facing the unruly drivers of Manila, speeding all around the place like Sonic the Hedgehog on sugar rush, do it and live a longer and safer life.