The jeepney is a public transport. It is a means of transportation where we could get seated next to a friend in as much a probability as getting seated right next to a total stranger. Because of this, riding the jeep calls for great effort to practice our good manners. Here are a few more etiquettes to practice when riding a jeep:
1. Being a public place, DO avoid talking loudly in the jeep. Dropping names or hints to yours and your friend's identity is very unwise to do in public places, or in the words of Emily Post, "doing so would be just the same as tearing down the walls of your house." Your identities are best known only in the intimacy of your homes;
2. DO converse intelligently in private places but never so in public ones. Pisay students are intelligent students who study subjects quite advanced for their age, everybody knows that. So nothing annoys people more than when they hear you talking about your knowing this and that in public places like the jeep or the malls. Even if you don't mean it, people tend to believe out of a sense of "inferiority", that your are bragging about your intelligence;
3. Laughing is a healthy reaction of a cheerful person. But laughing heartily may be taken especially by strangers as insulting or sarcastic. It would start making them feel self-conscious and uncomfortable. So when you and your friend would want to have a good laugh, DO reserve them in the confines of a private place, not in the jeep.
Modesty practiced in conversations, such as in the cases above, is a very good virtue. It promotes the friendship you already share with your friends, and helps you gain more friends out of total strangers.
Don't forget, an etiquette a day keeps rudeness away!
-Sir Madz
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