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On our way home from our week-long vacation in Baguio and
Manila, we were scheduled to leave for Davao at 6:30 PM onboard ZestAir. At the
boarding gate, someone announced that our flight would be delayed due to delay
in turnaround, whatever that means. Instead, boarding would commence at 7:00
PM. But we boarded the plane, as cabin crews are wont to say, at twenty minutes
past the hour of seven in the evening. 7:20 PM, for short.
As if it were not enough, the cabin crew further announced that
take off would be delayed. This time it’s due to ground servicing. We took off
at 8:30 PM.
That meant we were delayed for two hours. I was about to
pity us when suddenly I thought of erstwhile President Ferdinand E. Marcos, the
longest serving President of the Philippines. We were far luckier than
him—luckier because we were certain to return home, while Marcos, when he left,
was not. All we needed to do was to wait. Marcos had to go all the way to the
Supreme Court and fight for his right to return.
