Learning how to act when riding a public transportation, including drivers and conductors . . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 9:19 PM
In another blog, Elderly blues and blows, the plea was for the younger bus passengers to keep us gentle ways towards the senior citizens, in this particular talking point, it is to learn how to act when riding a public transportation - driver, conductor and passengers alike.
First talking point: Are the passengers getting their money's worth? their human rights as persons and their rights as consumers? As a passenger myself, there are more occasions when we do not deserve all this inconvenience. Imagine you have to literally go through big bodies, male and female alike, to fight for your desire to travel. One time, I sprained my shoulder due to tugging my bag and avoid losing it. When I finally entered the bus, it was obvious there was no more space so there was no choice but go down, bags and all. All this time, the conductor did not care what was happening. the driver all the more had no qualms whatsoever as to what was going on among the passengers in the bus he was driving. this is the sad plight of everyone. Nobody cares and this happens everyday in any terminal -m at least in the Philippines (? Pls. correct if this is not the case in your own Phil. situation.)
First learning point: As passengers in a public transportation, we can only say we get the learning that even before any bus transportation be allowed to serve the public, there should be enough training given to anyone concern that passengers must be treated with care. They have no reason to feel that they are mere passengers who must be thrashed into the "dungeon" of a bus. As passengers, we learn that we have to go beyond our duty as travelers. We must do everything in our power to tell the transportation owners that we deserve respect and fair treatment in matters of bus fare and services due as consumers. We must make the transportation owners they cannot become rich at our expense.
Second talking point: Good manners and right conduct must be observed by all parties in the bus experience. The passengers should not talk as though the public bus are theirs. they should not gossip all throughout the journey because other passengers are just dying to "kill them" especially if they know some of the "cast of characters" in the gossip. the conductor should have the "finesse" as he gives the tickets. He cannot just call out if one already has ticket and give one across somebody else, allowing his "armpits to be almost directly on the face of a female passenger who in turn called him bad names". the driver should not be talking so loudly with fellow drivers who have joined him as free passengers for the moment and their so-called joke about passengers who put on balm of some kind that make them party to being "old and nauseous".
Second learning point: We should know by now that life is better than this facet of our existence. We can go on with our travels without hurting others. We take the bus and sit there. We take out a book and read and in the process learn something. We can listen to music through our mp 3 or 4 and be happy with it. We can nap and be peaceful until your destination comes. What a peaceful world it would be if every person, every bus passenger, every man or woman, indulges in more proactive ways than destructive ones. SHALOM!
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