Only in the Philippines can a 11km car ride take an hour and a half. It’s situations like this – the traffic and the crazy commute for what is relatively short distances – that make meetings out of town all that harder to happen and harder to get to. Today I had a business meeting out in BGC, it was scheduled for 4:30pm, but there were too many factors at play today that made it simply impossible.
The rain.
The fact that today was a Friday, the end of the work week.
Then the fact that today was payday here in the Philippines.
Three solid factors that were all working their wonders against me. The Uber app told me that it’d be 24 minutes until my Uber arrived and it’d be almost three times the price as usual. So I had to post pone the meeting. I could have sucked up the cost, that was somewhat expected, but the long wait and then the traffic I’d have to contend with… No thanks.
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