Amidst all the depressing policical news, the following story from The Daily News today lifted my spirits.

Daily News, Thursday May 13.

The highlight of a recent wedding in Nakhon Sri Tammarat was the traditional bridegroom procession around the community before the wedding.

2 able bodied men carried a 20 litre plastic water container with a coin slot in its lid. Wrapped with red cloth the container was full of coins, ranging from 50 satang to 10 baht, the container weighed from 30 to 40 kilograms.

On reaching the bride's house, the bridegroom, Apidet Wichaikun, asked his 2 friends to take the container into the bride's house and relatives from both families helped empty the container and count the coins. This took over an hour. The coins came to a value of 160,000 baht which brought smiles to both families' faces.

Apidet said that he had met his bride, Antika Tip, when she was learning in senior high school and he was taking a vocational course. After qualifying, he had started a water distribution service in the village and every day for the last 7 years he had saved money as he had promised to ask for her hand in marriage whenever she graduated as a teacher.

Apidet said he had never counted the money prior to the wedding.

Antika said she loved Apidet because he was reliable and hard working and promised to always be a good wife.The wedding guests cheered and urged the couple to kiss to show their love, which they obligingly did to some embarrassment!

Nice story, thank you. We should all wish them prosperity and good health and happy, well-adjusted children.

I bet there was 200k in there before some light fingered larry had it away with about 6kg worth!

Or better still, after all the guests gifts had been counted there was a cool half a mil in crisply folded hundred baht notes. Meladdo had just pulled off the heist of the century for his little village! He'd made a cool 340k scored his favourite bird and left everybody smiling!! As the James Bond theme goes, "Nobody does, it better..."

The proof of the pudding is always in the eating... 160k should cover the deposit on her Jazz and a Fino to boot.

Or she could spend 60k on getting a job in a decent area.

As the jesuites say, "get them while their young, and the possibilities are endless."

oh yeah, charming story. Never let another poster doubt the symbolic nature of the sinsod.

Apparently Loz is short for Loozer.

Something doesn't add up here.

A 10 bht coin weighs 8.5 grams.

40 kg's = 40000 grams=4705 10bht coins=47050 bht max.

Something doesn't add up here.

A 10 bht coin weighs 8.5 grams.

40 kg's = 40000 grams=4705 10bht coins=47050 bht max.

You can either be a spoil sport or simply assume there was some paper money in with all those coins.

Do you absolutely have to destroy a great story with something as trivial as physics and reality?

Something doesn't add up here.

A 10 bht coin weighs 8.5 grams.

40 kg's = 40000 grams=4705 10bht coins=47050 bht max.

You can either be a spoil sport or simply assume there was some paper money in with all those coins.

Do you absolutely have to destroy a great story with something as trivial as physics and reality?

Of course he had to...after all T.I.T.V

And on the 5th post...Im suprised the issue took so long to come up

Something doesn't add up here.

A 10 bht coin weighs 8.5 grams.

40 kg's = 40000 grams=4705 10bht coins=47050 bht max.

Take note, reality is frowned upon inside these hallowed walls.

Something doesn't add up here.

A 10 bht coin weighs 8.5 grams.

40 kg's = 40000 grams=4705 10bht coins=47050 bht max.

You can either be a spoil sport or simply assume there was some paper money in with all those coins.

Do you absolutely have to destroy a great story with something as trivial as physics and reality?

Of course he had to...after all T.I.T.V

And on the 5th post...Im suprised the issue took so long to come up

I know, I know.

I can be a bit of a pedant on occasion. That's what comes from having a more scientific rather than artistic leaning I guess.

But come on, surely you can see no way can you get 160 k bht of coins in a water bottle.

Sloppy reporting in my book too

I have changed the story into something that is truly nice. See below:

The highlight of a recent wedding in Nakhon Sri Tammarat was the traditional bridegroom procession around the community before the wedding.

Apidet said that he had met his bride, Antika Tip, when she was learning in senior high school and he was taking a vocational course. After qualifying, he had started a water distribution service in the village and every day for the last 7 years he had saved money as he had promised to ask for her hand in marriage whenever she graduated as a teacher.

Antika said she loved Apidet because he was reliable and hard working and promised to always be a good wife.The wedding guests cheered and urged the couple to kiss to show their love, which they obligingly did to some embarrassment!

What a coincidence! People in Sydney (Australia) don't seem to mention anything about money in their wedding synopsis.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/lifeandstyle/br...4955908886.html

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifematter...90518-b7om.html

But come on, surely you can see no way can you get 160 k bht of coins in a water bottle.

Sloppy reporting in my book too

I give you full points.

Don't let the 'others' stop you from being cynical. Afterall, it's cynicism that really keeps things on an 'even keel'...especially in Thailand.

Yeh, let's get back to the depressing political mess.

Yeh, let's get back to the depressing political mess.

No. Let's get back to how this 'lovely story' talks VERY MUCH about money.

I saved mine selling discus fish and aquatic plants and used my Seacon Square branch Bangkok Bank account. Same concept though.

Speeking of being a nitpicker and grammar nazi...

There is something wrong with that statement...

Antika said she loved Apidet because he was reliable and hard working and promised to always be a good wife

Did Apidet promise his bride that "HE" would always be a good wife?

I think there needed to be a comma in there somewhere.

Reminds me of the old advertisement... "Pittbull dog for sale eats anything loves children."

Speeking of being a nitpicker and grammar nazi...

There is something wrong with that statement...

Antika said she loved Apidet because he was reliable and hard working and promised to always be a good wife

Did Apidet promise his bride that "HE" would always be a good wife?

I think there needed to be a comma in there somewhere.

Reminds me of the old advertisement... "Pittbull dog for sale eats anything loves children."

You're right Ian, I should have inserted 'she' before promised.

By the way, why are you 'speeking' of being a nitpicker and what is a 'pittbull? Is it a grammar Nazi's pitbull?

Can we see what he got for 160,000? Did the bride every consider Ebay?

Speeking of being a nitpicker and grammar nazi...

There is something wrong with that statement...

Antika said she loved Apidet because he was reliable and hard working and promised to always be a good wife

Did Apidet promise his bride that "HE" would always be a good wife?

I think there needed to be a comma in there somewhere.

Reminds me of the old advertisement... "Pittbull dog for sale eats anything loves children."

You're right Ian, I should have inserted 'she' before promised.

By the way, why are you 'speeking' of being a nitpicker and what is a 'pittbull? Is it a grammar Nazi's pitbull?

Just some friendly teasing. When I try to act like a grammar Nazi I always insert a few "misteaks" of my own to give the OP a comeback. I enjoy happy stories. Most marriages START out that way. Unfortunately, too many don't turn out that way 10 years down the road... if they last that long.

Makes you wonder, 160k baht for a teacher with no baggage in tow, or 500k + baht for some uneducated farmers daughter with 3 kids in tow.

Go south young man.

I have to ask was that the Thai price or farang price?