You experience everything in Thailand (52)
In Thailand, during corona, the temperatures of people entering a shop or department store were taken on a large scale. An absolutely pointless activity of course, not to mention the QR registration. Inquiries in a dozen stores (7-Elevens, Family Marts, supermarket, pharmacy, etc.) revealed that in no case had a customer been turned away due to a temperature that was too high.
Unsurprisingly, a young 7-Eleven staff member standing at the entrance somewhere in Thailand, bored with a vial of sanitizing gel in one hand and a thermometer in the other, accidentally squirted a blob of gel into a customer's eyes. instead of taking the temperature.
There will be some incidents here and there, such as Gerard happened in Hua Hin. Read his anecdote below
Hot air…
My wife needed a good haircut and we go to the hair salon together, where we are regular customers. Normally, the temperature is taken at the door, which the mistress takes charge of. She also gives some gel to disinfect the hands.
At that time, however, the boss is on a lunch break and the hairdressers present do not feel called upon to take over the task of taking a temperature. That can still happen, just to be sure, when the boss is back.
My wife takes a seat and is helped by one of the hairdressers. At the moment of blow-drying, the boss enters in shock: they forgot to measure the temperature of the customers upon arrival! She immediately does that while blow-drying and she is shocked when the device indicates 41 degrees.
Panic in the tent! Until I tell her that she apparently doesn't realize that a hair dryer emits warm air and the temperature was measured in that air stream...
Phew…!
Yes this is Thailand.
Went to have a photo taken this morning while dressed in a suit.
I had to sit on a stool and the rug behind me was hung down.
Photo was ready and guess what… the rug was full of folds. But that was no problem, the photo was edited with a kind of Photoshop..?
But also my appearance. Can't believe they just do this without asking.
Made it clear to her that I didn't want that, with the result that the photo was no longer usable. She couldn't bring it back to the old situation, so the second choice photo....:)
But the weird thing about this,
they don't understand why we don't accept that the background looks very bad and also why we don't want a photoshopped photo that makes us look years younger.
Weird but nice Thais 🙂
John, this is so relatable. And when you start explaining why they think you're crazy. Think you just have to put it down and have the picture taken again.
It's nice to see all the differences that exist.
Dear Osen,
yes, there is humor in it.
Every week you experience something that makes you say.. Hmmmm 🙂
Cheers
correct my partner has just written down the temperature for 2 weeks in quarantine without measuring herself and kept a list of what she said........
it's called window dressing
I have reported the temperature by telephone in the morning and evening in a renowned hotel. Could hardly be otherwise. Would it be a huge expense if someone had to come by twice a day to take the temperature.
I did my quarantine at Amaranth hotel for 2 weeks.
Pass on temperature twice a day by means of a photo on Line.
The temperature gauges don't work very well.
They usually indicate somewhere between 34,5 and 36,5 and once 32,5.
Of course, the suppliers of these temperature devices have again earned many millions of Baht and that is what it is all about. Mission accomplished.
Here in Trang, the digital thermometers always give the same values.
36,4 for my hand and 36.8 for my head.
The latter value was also the one indicated by a thermometer under the armpit in the Netherlands.
Indeed, it's all about money, by the way, just like everything that has to do with this flu. It starts in the media with scaring people and it ends with the big pharma industry. Everyone wants to earn from it.
Still, it's good that people are earning, tens of thousands of extra jobs in health services, meal delivery and parcel services can't handle the crowds and the medical industry is going through peak times. Compare it to the mobile phone industry, 25 years ago you had nothing and now it is an industry of hundreds of billions of euros with millions of extra people at work. At the beginning of the corona crisis I already indicated that every economy in the West will come out of any crisis stronger and therefore larger and growth will therefore increase even more, in that respect long live the corona industry because prosperity is increasing;. the more crisis, the better the economy performs.
Thinking for yourself is not the strongest subject in Thailand.
In the hospital, the weight statement was left in Lbs (= factor 2,54). So my weight was noted down with a cheerful face; 252 kg… NO ONE came up with the idea. that so much weight would have resulted in a slightly different size.
Harry,
Don't twist your story 🙂
The scale was effectively set to KG. You just don't want to admit that you are a little overweight.
No matter how you look at it, Harry, I think that, if I can calculate correctly, your effective weight is just under 100kg.
So something tells me you're way too heavy to be any good. The setting of that personal scale does not matter.
Recently at the supermarket.
To pay: 903 Baht.
I give a 1000 Baht note. The cashier enters that amount on the cash register and I have to pay 97 Baht back.
I quickly reach into my pocket and give her 3 extra Baht. And then… it was panic!
I had another experience today, I had to pay 499 baht and give a 1.000 baht note. The saleswoman takes out a calculator to calculate what she has to pay me back….
To be clear... the cashier did not accept the 3 Baht because she did not know how to solve this 'riddle'.
This is yet another good example of the sad level of schools and training here in Thailand. Independent thinking and reasoning is not taught here. All this has major consequences for the rest of life. How sad.
My Thai wife has the same problem. If she has to compare different packages of the same product in the supermarket to know which is the cheapest, she will not be able to do this. I solve this with a snap of my fingers, and then she looks surprised.
Now, school-going youth in Belgium (Netherlands) can no longer do math, they use their smartphone for everything. What they are good at (including the Thai youth) is putting on a big mouth. They shouldn't be taught that 😉