My entire life flashed before my eyes 3 hours ago.

My mom asked me to go to Tita Elvie's house tonight to visit the wake. I left my house at around 7 pm and hopped on a jeepney to Tita Elvie's village. I felt uneasy about the guy sitting beside me (who was sitting beside the jeep's entrance) because he seemed drunk and brushed against my shoulder for a moment. Now I learned not to be too paranoid when commuting, but I really felt weird about this guy. So I inched away from him, started praying, and felt so relieved when a guy entered the jeep and sat down between us. During about the third of the trip, the weirdo guy started punching the metal sheet at the corner window. The two women sitting across from the guy kept glancing at him from time to time, and I was getting really paranoid. When there was a slight traffic jam somewhere before Moonwalk, I noticed the guy take something out of his pocket. The two women then looked at each other and smiled strangely. When the guy got off at Moonwalk, all of us in that area (the two women, the guy sitting next to them, the guy sitting next to me, and myself) breathed a sigh of relief. As it turns out, what the crazy guy took out of his pocket was a pair of nail clippers, with the sharp metal part out.

Then they all started telling each other what they were thinking, and they were all thinking the same thing--that the weirdo guy wanted to sit next to me. One of the women was really nervous about the guy, especially because she was pregnant. The guy sitting next to them said that the weirdo wanted to switch seats with him. Same with the guy sitting next to me, but he was more afraid of the pointed part of the nail clippers. Man, so was I. I was quiet the whole time the group was talking, and I was silently praying again, thankful that my prayers were heard. Then I started telling myself never to take public transportation again.

Then I realized that I have no choice but to take public transportation everyday. So I started cursing how unsafe public transportation is. Good thing Kuya Bobot commuted with me on the way back home.

I'm so glad I'm still alive and safe.