one of those days

I should let this pass but I just can’t. The boisterous laughter and the silly grin of that barbarian bore a nasty hole in my senses; I couldn’t just shake it off my thoughts.
The day started out pretty much special. The fact that I was up as soon as the alarm went off is something noteworthy as it wasn’t the norm in the last few weeks. Breakfast was paella ala “sampat” (with chicken breast, liver and gizzard) which cooked so perfectly that there wasn’t nothing left in the pot for the ants to scour.
But the scene changed abruptly and it wasn’t the least to my advantage.
So I was by the curb when a tricycle already packed with 3 passengers stopped. The driver insisted that I take the “seat” adjacent to the real seat. I refused about three times before he realized I wasn’t taking it. Well, not today. Not in my skirt anyways. It didn’t take long and he was back, swerving out of his lane and stopped right in front of me. It was to my understanding that he’s resigned to shuttling me off to my destination so I made a gesture of moving towards the cab, when out came his crazy laughter as he revved the motor and sped away. As if to say,”Who are you kidding?!?!” Others would have taken it none too seriously but this one apparently has taken much offense at the refusal.
Who was he kidding? I mean, who just lost a client? Didn’t he stop and think for a while about how many hundreds of cabs are plying that route? Nah, I bet not; fact I was already on my way to the gate before I even lost sight of his crazy self. Else, he would have thought twice before giving in to such an act so juvenile. My mistake was, after waiting for around ten minutes and having subjected my freshly washed self to a reasonable amount of dirt from speeding vehicles that cruised by me, I felt suddenly impatient and failed to see that it might have only been a ploy to annoy, to get back at me.
Sigh!