So I went back the following day at 06:00am, went into the room on the left with 3 chairs, as reported above, and then sent further left to a supervisor's desk and without questions got my 90 days. I think I was in and out of the room in under 2 minutes. I'm still not sure if staying overnight was absolutely necessary, but all I've got is what the exit IO told me, which is one word: "tomorrow." In case it ever comes up in the future, I did look around at the border town at Thanaleng and couldn't find a single hotel or hostel. If you search for available stays you will find one nearby but it's some big casino, which explains why the whole area was overrun with Chinese people, all the other rooms were further out, so at that point I just decided to hop on the green bus for 40 baht and find a room in Vientiane, and then head back the next morning.
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