There was this strange occurrence several days ago when I was on taxi for my daily trip to the office. We were just caught inside with our conversation regarding mobile phones as one of the participant was thinking of the cell phone to replace her not-too-old-but-so-freaking-annoying N73 when suddenly the driver of the taxi stepped into the conversation.

Driver: “I’m sorry *pulling out his mobile phone* but could you help me with my cell phone? I need to have the messages deleted cuz I don’t want my child to read them since I’m asking him to get this into service center. The keypad is broken so I’ve been unable to perform deletions.”

Short of story, we were too busy later checking his mobile phone, passing to each other trying to figure out how to delete the messages. Supposedly even without the keypad, it has got to be easy since it’s an old P910i with touch screen. But then we found out there’s a part of the touch screen that also malfunctioned which was unfortunately the part where the yes or no should be pressed.

Well the driver had to be worried since when I (half) accidentally opened one of the forbidden SMS and took a snap on what’s written inside:
“Why haven’t you (bapak) activated your cell phone recently? If you (bapak) are bored with me already, please just let me know”.

I initially thought that the taxi drivers in Indonesia mostly were living in poverty. But then seems like it’s not entirely true. At least, this taxi driver could afford to cheat.

Well, in the end, none of us could help him to delete the messages until we got off the taxi. We only gave him the suggestion to try getting the mobile phone reformatted as it would delete the messages and maybe could help to fix the touch screen issue and maybe keypad (if it’s really only software issue).

The things left were the odd impression left by the SMS and also the fact that we had to pay a bit more than usual for our very usual trip with similar distance and traffic condition. There’s suspicion that he toyed with the meter when we were too busy with his mobile phone.

And next, what about marriage? Is it so hard in reality to have marriage without an affair? I used to ideally believe that marriage is sacred, one for a lifetime, that devotion is a must within marriage. Now, I still wish that I would be able to be a have such an ideal marriage. But then seeing more and more, the idea may not be that easy after all even when I’m only considering the strength of my own self, not to mention the partner.