You guys are right, I suppose, it does no harm, so why not?
But ... does it lend to the shit driving habits and abysmal safety practices here? Even a little?
Last week my wife and I were out in the driveway talking to our neighbor around dusk when we heard and awful screech out on the main road about 200 meters away. I got on my bicycle and peddled out as my wife and neighbor walked. I found a guy walking around his crashed moto with blood running down both elbows. There was a giant bamboo chicken cage in the middle of the road and cars slowed to go around it. The guy was muttering in Thai and I was thinking what a daft cnut he was for trying to drive a moto while carrying a chicken cage.
Wife and neighbor finally approach and the guy starts yelling at them, I presume telling them what happened, as I cleared the broken mirror and plastic parts from the road.
About one minute later, a truck pulls up to the scene from the opposite direction and the bloody moto driver falls to the ground screaming in pain. Wife and neighbor chuckle -- now I'm really lost.
Apparantly the moto was driving into town while the truck approached from the opposite direction. The chicken cage, in the back of the pickup, flew out of the bed of the truck and wiped out the moto driver as he casually puttered down the road, drinking his plastic-bag beverage which was now splattered across the road with bits of his beloved bike.
The driver appeared fine, if not a bit bloody, until the truck pulled up at which time he fell over in agony, yelping.
I didn't stick around long enough to investigate, but I'd bet they both had their vehicles blessed.
break/break
In Japan a few years back, my friend bought a car. His wife demanded he return in the next day -- wrong color according to the monks she confided in while in Thailand earlier that year. She was insistent. She also had to have a license plate tag with the numeral "9" in it. No exceptions, no waivering ... please. (A Petchabun princess she was, horrible!)
If you're a Buddhist, OK, do what your religion suggests/demands but if you're just agreeing to play, you may find yourself on a slippery slope.