Frogger

Here comes the rain again.  Rainy season is upon us.  Too early, I say since June is the month that ushers in the rains.  The weather is not what it should be.  Must be the ozone.

Anyway, around late afternoon yesterday, dark clouds filled the skies and I thought that I should try to catch a ride home as soon as I left the office, knowing how horrendous trafffic can be in the city when it rains.  I got into an FX and soon the service zoomed its way to Cainta.  Traffic was light, I thought I was gonna be home earlier than 7pm.  I dozed off for almost an hour and woke up to the sound of raindrops.  It’s raining!  Good thing, the FX has left Makati and C-5 (where the traffic builds up).  When I got off the FX, the rain was light enough for me to take another FX home.  I thought that if the rain was just a drizzle, I can walk my way home from the subdivision’s gate.  But then, that didn’t happen.  The rain began to pour like the heavens were crying its heart out. Sheesh.  Somewhat wet but not totally drenched, I was able to take shelter in the guardhouse by our subdivision’s gate.  And there I witnessed a phenomenon of some sort. 

At first, I saw one weird round and brown object slowly making its way from the grass to the sidewalk.  When I tried to focus what this round, bloated and brown object was, I saw that it was a frog.  Bloated by the rain, I supposed.  It caught my interest because It was fat and weird-looking.  And it looked funny as it walked (waddled?) down the sidewalk to the semi-flooded highway.  And I realized, this frog’s on a suicide mission to get to the other side of the street.

It was still raining hard.  I had nothing to do but amuse myself by watching this frog try to cross Felix Avenue (the long stretch of highway from Sta. Lucia to Junction and vice versa).  Will he make it or not?  I texted Ruel, my bestfriend, about what I was witnessing that very moment, and here was my text message to him:

O no! I am just abt… I am in shock! I just witnessed a frog got squishd by a jeep!

My amusement was cut short.  O well.  But then again, I saw another one.  A baby frog.  Gleefully jumping in the rain, it was making its way to Felix Avenue.  I texted Ruel again.

ACK! Ano b to? Frogger? Another frog is attempting 2 cross d street!

Those of you who are into video games may have played FROGGER.  Yes, you are the frog.  And you are trying to cross a very busy street, evading trucks, buses and cars.  My celphone rang.  Ruel was hysterical!  He thought my txt message was funny! 

I didn’t see if the baby frog was successful enough but I saw another frog.  A big one.  Not far off from where I saw the baby frog the first time.  Hmmm.  This indeed is something.  And the rains slowly turned to drizzle.  Ah. Time to cut my amusement and head on home.

This morning, as I was walking to the FX terminal that will bring me to Makati, I saw lots of squished frogs on the highway.  Hmmm.  Game over, I suppose.

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Note: This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 at 6:29 pm in my friendster account.  Whoa! It's been almost two years since I saw that phenomenon happening.