Bambi Eloriaga-Amago
Last February 4, Keyland Corporation employee Paolo Flores took to Facebook to sing praises about a Good Samaritan who helped him recover a phone he lost that day.
Flores had apparently dropped his phone somewhere along Dela Rosa Street in Makati. When he noticed it was missing upon getting to the office, he quickly gave his phone a ring. Luckily for Flores, it was a kindly taxi driver named Mang Roger who noticed the ringing phone on the street and picked it up.
Mang Roger told Flores to meet up with him on Pasay Road. To Flores’s pleasant surprise, the cabbie really did turn up and would only accept gratitude in return for the kind act.
“I tried to give him a small token of appreciation, but he politely declined,” related Flores. “I insisted but he didn’t take it.”
Not content with merely thanking the man in person, Flores posted about the experience on his page, perhaps in the hopes of doing Mang Roger a good turn in exchange.
“Thank you very much Roger for your honesty and concern,” Flores wrote. “I hope this reaches your taxi operator so that they’ll see what a good person you are. Mabuhay ka!”
Friends and followers of Flores’s post similarly showered the honest driver with praises.
“How inspiring!” replied Lea Madulid-Romero. “We need more Filipinos like him.”
FB User Mari Car said, “Despite of the bad news we often hear about taxi drivers, meron pa din talagang mababait like kuya. (there are still good ones like kuya.) God bless kuya.”
A member of the Rotary Club Makati even offered to have their club acknowledge the act of kindness. “We can acknowledge his kindness & dedication to his vocation,” wrote Dona Ado. “Please arrange his availability to be with our club, Rotary Club of Makati Northeast. We’ll be glad to have you there as a proponent of this recognition to a non-rotarian.”
