On the way home from QC today, I was really in a bad mood. It was so hot, I had just about 2 hours of sleep in the last 30+ hours, and my standing in Math was so not good. Then the bus that I rode was really hot, like, the aC wasn't working properly and the bus was almost full so I didn't get a good seat. I almost decided to just ride the next bus but it would leave 40 mins later so instead of wasting time I just settled for the seat beside a woman with a 2 yr old boy on her lap. The boy kept trying to touch me with his shoes, which were really dirty, and of course I kept on removing his foot from my lap, bag, wherever he decided to put it. The woman was making very minimal effort to keep the boy from kicking me, and mind you I was using a white bag and wearing white shorts so you can just imagine the effect of what the boy was doing with his shoes. Then the aC. Shoot. Two aircon thingies are allotted for 2 seats, so each passenger gets control of one. I moved the one closer to me to my side, and the woman looked at me in a bad way and stroked her son's sweaty hair as if to tell me, "my son's perspiring how cruel of you to take the aircon" but what the heck, she already had one facing her and her son, what was I supposed to do? I really really did everything in my power to stop myself from telling the lady to just drop dead. Gah. Really, she didn't even pay for her son's fare. If she wanted to get a big space for the two of them, then she should've paid for her son too. I was well within my rights when I moved the aC to face me, as well as when I moved the kid's shoes from my WHITE shorts and WHITE bag. I tried to think of the situation as a test of how kind I can be and how long can I be patient still just to stop myself from telling the woman how stupid her actions are. Then again, is it really about how I act? I really think that the situation taught me, not patience or kindness, but that there are many selfish people out there who do not act within their rights and who do not think of how they are becoming nuisances to the people around them. I mean, while I was watching her, in my mind I was able to devise countless ways where she could hold her son comfortably and not be a bother to me, and all of us were getting sweaty already since that was around 2pm and the bus' aC was not really working that well, and I paid for my seat. I just hate how situations like this seem so unfair, like, I'm the one who ends up looking selfish when for a fact I was just practicing my rights and she was going beyond hers tas nak ng siopao siya pa titingin ng masama sa kin.