That little fiasco at Taal Vista Hotel could mean a lot

THE invitation was for a 10 a.m. meet with Bobi Tiglao Wednesday at, said the text message, "Taal Vista Lodge." Turns out, Waze traced that location not to Tagaytay as scheduled but to an area in the outskirts of the city actually ringing Nasugbu, Batangas. So, while I reached Tagaytay a good 30 minutes ahead of the appointment time, having overshot the mark all the way to the boundary of Nasugbu, I was the last to arrive at the actual meeting place, not Taal Vista Lodge but Taal Vista Hotel. Peter, the comrade who sent me the invitation, said it's all the same, Vista Lodge or Vista Hotel, but to Waze, it's a whole lot of difference. You say it wrongly, Waze brings you to the wrong place.

Anyway, all's well that ends well. After a change of nomenclature at the Waze mobile tracker from "Lodge" to "Hotel," we hit it right finally. There I strode, after alighting from my car, to the hotel entrance, confident that I was right on time when here were the doorman and the lady entrance receptionist refusing me entrance for not having a vaccination card. My blood pressure shot up instantly (I have this physical built-in barometer that alerts me each time I get hypertension, for which reason I had a cute nurse tagging along on the trip to confirm my high blood pressure with an apparatus anytime and administer the corresponding medicine).