Just another day in Thailand !!!

My room mate, Eileen and I went to the grocery store this evening. We rode our motorbikes to the front gate of our neighborhood and parked them. We walked out to the street and waited for a songteow to drive by. The first two were "too full", so we waited.... because, eventually, another one will come along. An empty one came along, picked us up and dropped us off across the street from the Big C, all for 15 Baht each. (33 Baht = US $1). I got money from ATM and went into the bank to have it changed into smaller amounts. We went into a Thai bookstore and Eileen bought a children's beginner Thai book and letter tiles. We ate dinner. We bought a few groceries and stopped in and had ice cream. As we were walking toward the main doors, we noticed that it was POURING RAIN !!!! "Guess those were rain clouds and not smoke from buring fields that we saw on the way to the store" hahaha. Luckily, this brand new store has a covered walkway from the store to the road. We stood with others, waiting for the next songteow, and listening to the rain as it pounded on the metal roof of the walkway. After 10 or 15 minutes, the rain let up, we walked out to the road and flagged down a songteow. A red truck drove up, the driver asked..."where go?" we told him, he shook his head yes, we hopped in and off we went. We smiled and congratulated each other, "wow, we didn't even get soaked!" And then the songteow pulled over..(we hadn't even gone a block yet) the driver got out, came to the window and said "get out, me go shopping, get out now". So we climbed out and there we were, standing alongside of the road on a dark street. Laughing, because..... it's just another day in Thailand!!

(by the way, eventually another songteow did come along, he drove us right up to our motorbikes, and we got home safe and dry..... except my bike helmet was full of water from the rain, hahaha)
Pam