Ticket Rejected

If you happen to go to work everyday and just like the rest of the normal people you can’t afford to have your own car and then face the daily commuter’s consequences… deal with a horrible traffic while passing thru Edsa.

Before I don’t worry about it that much…for I was a part of a morning newscast show that requires me to commute very early. In as fast as 15minutes from Monumento, Caloocan…I can be at Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City where my office is currently situated. But my present schedule is now set where most commuters rush to their work.

At first, I tried leaving the house two hours before my actual time at the office…but I found myself still caught in the traffic. Now, I was force to ride via the Metro Rail Transit or MRT, for the purpose of saving more time and a test for me to overcome my fear or phobia in a crowded transportation like that of a train.

I must say that most people riding the MRT were far from their old habits like that of not falling in line. But one thing is not fix yet and that is…learning how to allow passengers go out first before going inside the train. But the bottom line is… there are obviously more passengers where in they lack trains to accommodate the volume of commuters.

Most of the times you’ve been hearing the pilot of the train telling the commuters don’t hold the door to avoid delay…next train will be on its way shortly.  But the eager passengers were still forcing the door despite of the lack of space inside. Sometimes, announcement such as “The upcoming train will just pass by and will not load commuters”, that pissed me off and I believe the exact sentiments of the many.

Recently, it was announced that there will be an increase in the fare of the train…I just hope that this will be the best answer to resolve the daily jam-pack volume of commuters and soon enough we will be seeing more trains.

And I do hope that they can also fix the trouble I recently encountered at the time I previously inserted the MRT Magnetic card on their machine…”Ticket Rejected” (in a red warning). It was pretty normal for every individual to ask why such thing occurred. The only response I got from one of the MRT staff was it was expired…and it was purchased last December 2012.

Upon hearing that I was shocked…WHAT?! I happened to purchase a stored value worth P100 exactly a week ago. How come?  I wanted to explain myself…but guys believe me they trust their machine more than the explanation I was making.

I just nodded but dismayed. And the saddest part…I was left with a choice purchasing a single journey ticket again. I will describe the feeling with the following words…GRRR!

To explain my side which was never heard…aside from I just got it a week ago, the same ticket showed a “ticket rejected”, at the very time I first inserted it in their machine. But since, I think such “error” occurred sometimes…I let the train staff to fix it. Never in my expectation…that the same problem will happen again and what worse was I was the one paying for the consequence of it.