I met Kev at close to 9pm Friday night. We had a quick dinner, had a quick smoke right after, goggled at the new ipod nano on display at one of the store windows, went to Tower Records to buy some CDs before finally deciding to go home.

We found ourselves stuck in Ayala Center, impatiently waiting for a cab to bring us home without the usual haggling for how much they're going to add to the fare. We waited for more than an hour, walked from SM to Glorietta, then on to Landmark and Greenbelt, before going back to Glorietta 2 to wait some more. All cab drivers were saying it was traffic going to Pasig and they wanted P50 more on top of the fare. One cab driver even had the guts to ask for P300 to bring us home, when it usually just costs P100, and that's with extras already.

Everytime a cab driver refused to bring us home, I'd grumble to myself "stupid cab drivers!" I just refuse to believe that it's traffic along EDSA going to Pasig at 10pm on a Friday night, because it just isn't possible. I always get that from cab drivers, and whenever they say it's traffic, it never is so!

At around 10 past 11, we finally hailed one who was willing to take us home. I was giving Kev a look that says "Yey! This guy isn't going to charge us extra." So we settled inside, made ourselves comfortable for the much-awaited ride home. While winding our way within Ayala Center to get to Ayala Avenue, cab driver suddenly said,
"Traffic ho papuntang Pasig. Mag-Kalayaan na lang ho tayo. Traffic kase sa EDSA, halos hindi umaandar sasakyan papuntang Pioneer. Saka pakidagdagan na lang ho ng singkwenta yung metro. Wala ho kaseng pasahero dun sa inyo eh, babalik pa po ako ng Makati."
Did we have a choice?

Anyways, when we finally got home, it was close to midnight. The cab driver was right, it was traffic going to Pasig that night. It took us more than 30 minutes to get home, when it should just be 10-15 minutes at that time of the night. =P