This is really crazy. I personally feel that it’s such a small matter and so much grievances over a stupid bar mat. What’s really ironic is that the 1000 baht probably could have been settled when it happened there and then, thereby avoiding all the unnecessary hassles of first being jailed. This is Thailand, sometimes it’s worth to swallow your pride a little earlier. Is the fiasco really worth it? It’s probably a good idea to keep your hands to yourself and not take what’s not yours.

In our bid to do our part for the ailing environment, we have been bringing our own bags diligently for grocery shopping. Almost always without fail. I’ll give myself a pat on the back for that. Only thing is, we are now running out of ’em plastic bags! The plastic bags given by the supermarkets are usually used for the trash bin. Right now, there are only a few left in storage, and soon, there’ll be no more plastic bags left at home for the rubbish. The proper black trash-bags sold in stores are more often than not, non-biodegradable. Not that the plastic bags from the supermarkets are, but I noticed that some supermarkets have already started to provide the biodegradable ones. Those supermarket plastic bags are really just convenient for trash.

I don’t know which is the lesser evil – to stop bringing your own grocery bags for a while, just enough to stock them up again for trash or buy those non-biodegradable ones and continue to bring our own bags.

Conundrum…conundrum…