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Why shopowners use a calculator to know the sum of 3x20 baht ?


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Pm me......see you on Tuesday, pay for your own ticket though. smile.png

A typical Scotsman coffee1.gif

Typical Thai asking me to pay for it in the first place. coffee1.gif

Uh hu, and now you are stereotyping biggrin.png

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Pm me......see you on Tuesday, pay for your own ticket though. smile.png

A typical Scotsman coffee1.gif

Typical Thai asking me to pay for it in the first place. coffee1.gif

You invited me, so bear the consequenses of your invitation.

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Pm me......see you on Tuesday, pay for your own ticket though. smile.png

A typical Scotsman coffee1.gif

Typical Thai asking me to pay for it in the first place. coffee1.gif Uh hu, and now you are stereotyping biggrin.png

True colours ????

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When I was studying at university I worked in a pub in England and always worked out the prices in my head. Sometimes people would by 20 drinks in a round and some time later order the same round. They were impressed that the figure I came to was the same as the first round.

Imagine my surprise when I went to a small vegetable wholesale on Thong lor. The guy there just rambled off the prices .... in English and much faster than I could follow. He does the same in Japanese and Chinese and of course Thai.

No need for a calculator for him. tongue.png

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Hi, ducky. I didn't bother to look through all the posts, so if I am doubling an opinion, I apologise.

I suggest it is a purely psychological thing. Not many Farangs speak Thai (like me), so instead of saying 60 (which I wouldn't understand) they show me the figure on their calc. Politeness?

Another suggestion is - maybe they think us to be inferior and not knowing that 20x3=60? After all how smart can I be, not speaking Thai? Politeness? Or saving my face? laugh.pngfacepalm.gif

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