maynilad

Please welcome the recipient of my first temper slip this year: Maynilad.

Imagine waking up at around 10am being alarmed by your neighbors because your water supply will be cut by Maynilad agents. The past months’ due is P0 - none, nada, nothing! - and the current balance due not earlier than next week is just P98. And people from Maynilad will come here and boastfully announce that they’re gonna cut off the water supply? Ridiculous. That’s water man. The river of life. Water that you need to cook. Water that you’ll use so that you won’t stink in the office. Water that is worth wasting if thrown to people like GMA to flood her away, together with some of her lame allies.

And for a balance, regardless of the amount, that is not due until next week? Wake up man. If my good neighbor didn’t bang our door to warn us, I might be on my way to the gym just to take a bath before I go to the office.

Mix-up? There’s no room for mistakes in these kinds of issues. Again, its water dude.

I promised myself I will be more patient, understanding, and accomodating this year; and I broke that this morning. I could have been sorry later on for boiling my temper up and lecturing around with an unfriendly tone of voice. But why would I if they didn’t even bother to apologize for the confusion (if that really is confusion, or if it just so happen they woke up on the other side of the bed or if the tooth fairy didn’t visit them overnight) after my mom handed them the bill. Not even an explanation - they just turned around and left.

I heard another neighbor commented, “Naghahanap lang yan ng pananghalian”. Welcome to the Philippines.