A not so busy day

In our team, it's so hard to get a vacation leave slot.
It's like playing chess, you have to put your best piece to checkmate the person plotting leave in a particular week against you.
So I used my Priority 1 to attack their Priority 2 and 3. Hahaha.
But I kind of felt frustrated since the leave was supposed to be used for my class but the class today was called off. So I decided to run errands.
First I went off to pay for Puti (my house on mortgage in the province). I got a queue number from the guard. It read No. 645 and when I went in, the cashier is serving No. 500!
Great! Good thing I brought with me a book. After over an hour, my number was finally called.
I was thinking of asking the cashier to break my P500.00 because I need a loose change for the fare. I glanced at her cash register box and I saw that she had no change so I said to myself I will just take the train instead of the bus to go to the mall.
So when I went to the only train ticket seller she said that she had no change and even showed me the money in her cash register.
I snapped a little. This is what I hate about dealing with government employees. They always make you feel that you are a nuisance to them. She also gave the same treatment to the people behind me who were able to go ahead because they had smaller bills.
Before I could say something awful, I tried to find my coin purse. I was able to get 6 P1.00, 15 P0.25 and just to annoy her, I decided to give her 2 P0.10
and a P0.05.
I was just waiting for her to give me the attitude again and if she did then I will state to her that, don't complain because that's all I have got but If you could move your fat rear to get some loose change maybe I could give you a decent P10.00 for the ticket.

Finally!

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My driver's license will be a year expired next week. Yey, it's my birthday!
So before I hit the one year marker, I scheduled to renew it this afternoon at a satellite LTO (Land Transportation Office) here in Manila.
It' summer and I was really feeling it.
Equipped with smile and courteousness, I went to LTO. It's 5 minutes past 1:00 p.m. already but the windows are still closed. Hmmm.... overdoing the lunch break...
I handed my license and its receipt still in a plastic jacket to a girl who was grumpy. She appeared more irritated when she can't get to pull out the license and receipt from the jacket and handed it back to me in a grumpy gesture asking me to pull them out.
When dealing with government employees, I always think that they are paid to be grumpy but I know my right and I know how big my tax was last payroll. I'm telling you that 30% taken away from our company bonus would be more than enough to send my niece to a private school.
I still applied my 1-2-3 policy as a customer. This means that if you would bark at me for the third time, I'll be giving you what you deserve.
Actually, I have two spiels in confronting people like this:

1. For private establishment: Miss, ayaw mo na ba ng trabaho mo? (Don't you want to keep your job anymore?)
2. For government employee: Ma'am, alam mo ba kung gaano kalaki ang tax ko last payday? (Do you have any idea how much tax was taken from my salary last payday?)

Good thing the girl just made her uncalled for attitude twice.
In all fairness, I got my license renewal card in less than an hour. This is when I feel that my tax is well spent.
Funny thing though is, the drug test and the medical exam conducted by a third party agency is way expensive than the renewal fee and penalty.
Mind you, these exams are not fool proof at all. For the drug test, you'll just be handed with a urine specimen bottle and you'll be instructed to go into a murky discomfort room, fill the bottle with someone else's your urine hand it back to them then wait 5 minutes for the result. While in the medical exam, you'll be asked to read the Snellen's chart from wherever you are sitting and while the quack doctor was busy scribbling on the official receipt. I felt I was a dork reciting the letters on the chart while all other applicants are listening to me.
Hay....
Welcome to the Third World developing country.