I was traversing the road from National Teachers College along Padre Casal St. down to the intersection in Taft Avenue here in Manila, and I was having a hard time maneuvering.

Why? Well it is because I was trailing behind a container van. Well what about it? It would have been just fine trailing this container van, but the problem is, the van’s contents are spilling all over the place!

The bad thing about that is, its contents are White Paint! And it seems that the driver and his subordinates have no idea that the contents of their container vans are spilling all over the place.

Plus add to the fact that, Padre Casal’s long road is under “Gold Mining Exploration” courtesy of the MMDA, so the said truck was switching lanes from time to time leaving the motorists behind him no choice but to roll over the paint on the pavement. The worst thing there is I am just 1 to 2 cars away from the truck.

Good thing is that I have had built enough distance from the other cars and the said container van that I am able to see the spilled paint on the road.

Worst thing is, whenever we would approach the stoplight, the spilling paint would create a massive pool of paint that rolling on to that paint would easily make your car tires white! Oldies Look eh.

I have seen a cab and a few cars unknowingly rolled over the pool of spilled paint giving their tires a freshly painted white look.

Fortunately, that gave me a hell of a challenge, just like having obstacles in your way when you are in a driving school. Meaning, my tires did not get any paint in it. Simple as that.

Too bad, my shot was not able to show the clear picture of the plate number of that container van, not because my phone cam is weak, but because his plate is covered with layers and layers of dirt and dust, thus disguising the plate number, making it look like a chunk of metal sitting inside the plate number’s slot.

To wrap it up, they have made a very good job.  A very good job of partly painting two things. The Road and The Tires.

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