Train Ride, Anyone?

Today is First Saturday.  I like to visit Our Lady at the Baclaran Church on First Saturdays. I enjoy hearing mass in the morning there.  The people clap their hands right after the mass ends.  Call me shallow but I think that is a wonderful gesture of joy and it is a great expression of appreciation. 

Anyway, getting to and from Baclaran is always more efficient with the MRT or the LRT, or both.  On my way there this morning, I found the LRT ride to be quite efficient.  I was able to sit down for majority of the ride and I actually got to mass on time in spite the rain.  There were not too many people on the train which helped make the ride more pleasant.

On my way home, since the streets were somewhat flooded, I decided to take the LRT to EDSA instead of taking a jeep.  (Yes, I know it was only one stop but I could almost hear MacGyver scolding me if I got sick because my feet got wet from trying to save P5.00 on transport fare.)   When I transferred to ride the MRT at Taft, I was fortunate enough to catch the train as it was letting people who had come from the North off the train.  Taft is likewise the end of the line for the MRT so getting into the train as people were going out gave me the chance to find a seat at the edge.  (That meant one less neighbor to jostle against.)

The train didn't leave for another ten minutes enabling more and more people to pile into the MRT.  I was reminded of a clip which MacGyver had shown me several months ago.  

  

I hope you got to see that.  That was INCREDIBLE ... UNBELIEVABLE ... and quite honestly, that was AWFUL.

I am all for taking the MRT because it is (generally) more efficient, but when the MRT is jam-packed with people, I am glad to have a car.  And after seeing that video, I guess I still have to thank my lucky stars that they don't shovel people into the MRTs in Manila the way they do in Japan.

 

Train ride, anyone?