Thread: was i fleeced ?

After near 20 yrs in Thailand I am an expert at being screwed by the Lovely and gracious thai people.
Employees, Cops, pretend cops. land lords, taxi drivers. The list is endless as are the excuses. A new added to the list yesterday.
I ride my push bike every day, sometime a short 20 K jaunt into Udon for such important purposes as a cup of decent coffee and picking up hamster food before the rodents die and I'm branded as murderer by my daughters.

Mostly the rides are about 60 / 80 kms, and as a result the Thai nationals sport of heaving used bottles out the cars window I get a lot of punctures, as I did yesterday.
Normally a fix costs 10 to 15 bt but yesterday I got charged 30 bt, when I asked why so expensive I got told because Bangkok have flood and now everything more expensive.

I must admit my simple mind failed to pick up on the link between floods 400 km away and a dry as dust Issarn country tire repair shop, but that's understandable because I'm only a simple and stupid farang.
Now I'm left with the nagging realization that maybe i got screwed again. What the consensus, did I ?

The guy who fixed the tire had no choice, because yesterday when he went to the market the person selling food used the same excuse when he was charged more for whatever he bought and the same bullshit excuse was used by the vendor.

It makes me laugh when I see the stuff on the telly with the smiling lines of thais shifting sandbags along with some hastily thrown together nationalistic bullshit song by Carabaou playing the background.

The idea that Thais love Thais and that they show compassion, kindness and charity towards one another is bullshit, their lives consist almost exclusively of attempting to fuck each over at each and every opportunity to gain more coin than the person next to him or her is paramount.

Originally Posted by Spin

The idea that Thais love Thais and that they show compassion, kindness and charity towards one another is bullshit, their lives consist almost exclusively of attempting to fuck each over at each and every opportunity to gain more coin than the person next to him or her is paramount.

Yup, totally, and on your most important line you forgot the word 'other', because it's easy to forget sometimes that they fuck each other over far more than they do us, be it charging their fellow man 500 baht for a flood boat ride over to the floating market or the Thai girl who thinks nothing of cheating on her boyfriend.

Every Thai woman I have dated has had a boyfriend, which is why I never get to involved or take one seriously. If they are desirable then they keep their options open. The last one was a bit disappointing, because she was half Thai and was born and raised in Holland and so I had high hopes, but no, she's got some rich Thai man on the go.

Originally Posted by peterpan

Now I'm left with the nagging realization that maybe i got screwed again. What the consensus, did I ?

Probably not in this case.

Costs for everything have gone up - food mostly but for some stuff coming north from BKK, prices have increased. Only exception tho is building materials. The Yingluck government announced the other day there will be no price gouging on materials needed to repair flood damage. Wallboard, cement etc will stay at pre-flood prices.

My tessaban just increased the price of garbage pickup - 50 baht per month at twice a week for one can. Inflation man...