... frustrations

I was talking to my mother this weekend. She told me that she got to talk to one of our neighbors in the village when they were both walking up the road.

Apparently, one of the neighborhood houses got sold. And when the buyer was about to go and live in his purchased home, she found out that it was being rented by a policeman. And this policeman refused to leave the place. "Ayaw umalis."

In retrospect, it appears that the previous owner tried all he can to evict the policeman from his house. But hey, for disputes like this in the Philippines, there is not much you can do. Report to the law enforcement? - no one honestly believes that reporting this to the police would result in anything good.

It reminds me of one of the tenants of my cousins. He was also a policeman. And he also refused to vacate when his contract expired. It took a friend of another cousin, a Lieutenant Colonel, who had to visit the tenant and mention that he was a soldier and that, "sabi nila, tapos na daw ang contract mo, a. kailan ka magmo-move-out?".

If simple business arrangements like these can not be honored and implemented as it should be, I can only imagine the manipulation, backhandling and sleaze that it would take to resolve bigger business disputes...