By Atty. Egay Uy
THE sun was about to set. The gloomy skies prevailed what could have been exciting cloud formations. The whirring and revving of a backhoe was a welcome sound. Its mission was to clear the roadside drainage of mud and silt. A clear and dry ingress and egress routes were about to happen ― again.
A huge part of our place is a natural water basin. Rain and wastewater from higher grounds in a barangay whose name may be considered an oxymoron (Patag nga naa sa puntod nga lugar) naturally seek lower grounds. And that’s where we pass through each day.
Almost a thousand meters away is wide main drainage that is currently being constructed in the middle of the JV Seriña street. Hopefully, that project will reduce the volume of water that stagnates in our access roads. Hopefully, we will make going about town with clean shoes or sandals, or clean wheels.
This brings me to another subject ― how clean are food delivery motorcycles.
Whenever I motor around, I always notice that a good number of motorcycles plying our streets have food carriers of varying colors at their back. These are the men, and women, who bring our foods to our doorsteps. The food delivery guys and gals.
Since they bring our food from the food stores to our homes, it would be best to see their motorcycles to be speck and span. But what do I see each time?
I see many of those rides with unclean wheels and even muddy license plates. Some others have worn out food carriers. Even the riders themselves need reminding to properly wear their masks when they converge to wait for food orders.
These food delivery persons and their motorcycles are supposed to be a symbol of sanitary and safe food handling. They are supposed to be a symbol of virus-free movements. They are supposed to make us feel safe each time we partake of food delivered by them.
So I thought, one lazy afternoon, that we will have to talk to operators of food handling establishments about these matters.
