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When the airport was taken over and shut down by protestors in Bangkok back in 2008, I remember hearing a lot a lot of funny things from stranded tourists. I would think being trapped in Thailand for an extra couple weeks would be a good thing.
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When the airport was taken over and shut down by protestors in Bangkok back in 2008, I remember hearing a lot a lot of funny things from stranded tourists. I would think being trapped in Thailand for an extra couple weeks would be a good thing.
Eh, if they had to get back to work it could result in very bad things: like losing a job.
In a small town many, many miles from any other gas station, the gas was coming out kind of slowly. I had this conversation with the idiot pumping gas across from me:
Tourist: Why is this taking so long? This is ridiculous. I'll be here all day.
Me: Yeah, they told me that they need to clean their filters.
Tourist: I'm not going to put up with this. They can't keep customers if they do this.
There was more to his ranting, but I can't remember it - he sure went on for a long time and I was glad when he left and I could pump my gas in peace (plus, it came out faster).
I'm assuming he had enough gas in the tank to get to where ever it was he was going. It just kind of cracked me up because if you needed gas, there was no where else to go. It was a really minor annoyance compared to running out of gas in the middle of nowhere.
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