Twelve In A Row Part 12

The Bus Conductor

It was so dark and quiet at the bus station  and the only late shops and spot lights along the road give glow to the place but even though Koko and I felt secured.  It’s calmness was friendly until we realized it  wasn’t our first time or second time .  We hadn’t learned our lesson yet.

our ticket........whaaaaat?

We were delighted when the bus arrived. We hopped in and passed by some passengers comfortably coiled sound asleep.  The conductor came to our seats and gave our tickets without any word and went away but what surprised me was the figures on those small  pieces of paper.  Koko and I were speechless for a second staring at each other.   We sensed something must be wrong.  This bus was an ordinary one and normally, ordinary buses collect only 70, 75 or 80 Baht the most.  The guy came back to collect fares so, I asked him pretending not to see the figures but he said it’s 80 Baht. I was puzzled so I showed him the ticket he gave earlier pointing at the figures  but he disagreed by shaking his head.   Koko gave him 200 Baht and later  Koko got a change of 40 Baht. Another way of cheating us! Maybe the conductor was hoping that we would just give him what the ticket was asking for (100 baht each) but was dismayed when he knew that I am a frequent traveler and that I know the regular fare (80 baht).

What was that? We presumed the man ran out of ink to write the correct figure over the ready- made ticket. Lol! Koko silenced me with his finger not to be bothered again for the man doesn’t want to speak more. The only word that came out from his mouth was the 80 Baht plus his shaking head.

We rested quietly like other passengers  and relaxed until we reached our place.

Twelve In A Row Part 10

At The Mobile Shop

Whew! What a nice cool soothing  air greeted us inside the mall.

We hurriedly took the escalator to the mobile shop. I couldn’t wait to get back my cell phone. I missed it soo much.

 Koko gave the operator  the claim stub.  The latter checked my cell phone and there was it. He smilingly handed my I- mobile phone .  I couldn’t explain how excited  I was . I checked  the cell but, Uuuugh  I was despaired . The distracting waterfall like sound coming from a high elevated place  wasn’t totally eliminated. Before the sound was soo disturbing that the other line couldn’t be heard clearly plus it irritates the eardrum. I told the seller to change the item or even better give back my money since it was  newly bought but  the shop doesn’t agree with my idea. But worst my anger was ignited when the seller told me I had  to be thankful  for there was a bit improvement in my phone. But what I like was, my phone should be functioning  well  like other cell phones do . It didn’t help even if I complain for looong hours. I gave it back to the operator for another examination while we did  some shopping since we’re rushing.  Why on earth we have to rush these days?

Magically we shopped everything we needed without missing our boxes of apple ciders.  We really loved those and what a surprise ,I forgot my bad mood. Thanks God I felt a great relief.  Tip toeing to the mobile shop  I closed my fingers and prayed.  Reaching the counter, the other sales lady greeted us with a piquant face with a large appealing eyes.  I smiled at her ,too.  My phone was freed from the virus!

Whew! Peace everyone. I am happy to go back home

Twelve In A Row Part 9

Inside The Van

At 1.30 pm we left Victory Monument . It was comforting for me inside the van after we're  exhausted to extreme heat outside waiting for this ride.

I took the chance to sleep. I couldn't really explain how weary I was after those travels to Ratchaburi and now we're to be back to our place. After an hour , we stopped by a petrol station. Every passengers comforted themselves then the driver checked his list of the passengers as well as their exact destination. He noted it well  for the passengers' comfort but along the way , I couldn't sleep since he had a lot of callers .  He hang up but another line came in. Oh, if I couldn't control my mouth I'd tell him to concentrate driving instead of chatting and munching his junk food with his cup  iced coffee. I didn't  know if some passengers felt secured with this kind of driver. Sometimes he caught my eyes at his mirror side but couldn't sense what I was blazing at.

Good for some passengers they reached their destination already. I looked at the window, Yeehey!, in ten minutes more we'll be at TESCO,too.  10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Oooops! Stop! Stop. Huhu the van driver forgot about us.  I got mad and I tapped at his his shoulder to stop. It was late we passed by TESCO  for about  200 meters. I complained  because he wasn't attentive enough. YADAH YADAH!

Koko slided the door and we got down without closing the door due to  my anger.  Let him go down the from his throne and closed the door by himself.

Oh , It was sooo  hot !