Noel & Via

It was not a good day for an MMDA to confront me. I had a lot of things on my mind and a lot of places I needed to go. Last saturday while heading south on EDSA, nearing Buendia St., an MMDA officer tried to stop me. I simply ignored the guy and waved my hand signaling that I did nothing wrong.

Moments after another officer swerved his motorbike in front of my car. I had no choice but to stop.. but I did think twice about running him over. So the officer went to the driver's window and asked me why I did not stop when the other officer called my attention. I replied, "Why should I stop? I didn't do anything wrong." He explained that I swerved lanes and crossed the white line.

Wow. At this point I was pissed. I remember an email that I got that said swerving is not a violation... and moving from one lane to another is definitely not swerving. It was a bad day to confront me with this nonsense. In rage I answered back.

I debated if the officer has any proof that I did in fact swerve. I told him that we could go back and look if I really did. I told him that I was not at fault. At this point we were both exasperated, seeing that I will not move from my stand and him not having any reason to catch me. He then asked for my license. I said, "why should I? I didn't do anything wrong." But I showed him my license anyway, told him that it is valid and that it expires next year. Showing him that I know exactly what he's trying to look for. He didn't budge and still asked me to hand it over. I told him that I will not surrender it until he promises to give it back. He nodded silently.

I gave my license with a deep sigh of defeat... thinking that he wouldn't give it back. To my surprise the officer handed back my license and said, "sana di na maulit to." (I hope this does not happen again.) Angrily I drove off.