Mrs. Lourdes Flor was a very rich school teacher who claimed that her husband was with the merchant marines as an overseas sailor. But we never saw her with her husband. She had a uniformed driver who opened and closed the doors of her cars for her. She had a BUICK, a PONTIAC, and a CADILLAC, but she rode alone to school, in the back, with her driver in front.
One day while we were alone in her schoolroom waiting for other PTA members to attend the meeting, she said to me: “You know, Captain, my husband leaves me alone for a long time and I am alone and I am just a woman in need.” I understood what she meant or wanted but I just changed the subject. She was a fat, short, dark-skinned lady about my age, with very thick powder on her face like mascara. Not a single hair of mine stood for her. She was UGLY!
Because of the incident during the PTA meeting when she became hysterical, accusing everybody as traitors for not supporting her in spite of her hard work for the upkeep of the school, everybody signed the petition I prepared against her, and during the trial of Pat for defamation, nobody showed up to testify as her witness. Hence, Pat’s case was dropped or dismissed by the Judge in Cubao, Quezon City.
She hired the three most famous lawyers in Quezon City, headed by Atty. Lenza, whom she paid ₱50 per hour each per appearance. One co-teacher of hers told me that she swore to spend her last centavo to send me to jail.
One Judge Advocate officer quoted: “Heaven knows no rage as love to hatred turned; nor hell, the fury of a woman scorned.”
The Judge trying the case against me once said: “Captain, why don’t you just satisfy her?” after she refused to drop the case as per his advice.
She said she wanted me to be jailed at all costs, but failed!
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