Oh cruel world-nighttrain edition

Tuesday.march 15

Oh cruel world-nighttrain edition

I started this trip last night around 630 pm. A night train from NongKhAi to Ayutaya. 10 hours. The price was unbeatable but after 9 hours I need to vent to my electronics about some things. Pretty much one thing actually. Comfort isn't a priority on this 3rd class 200 baht ticket. That isn't expected required or desired. I can deal sitting in a hardbacked 3 person seat knee to knee with the people staring across from me. I have a sweet pillow
and a decent book. The humid,stagnant air....no problem. the fact that it rained for the first time on the walk to the train for the first time in 4 weeks. no problem. thw woman next to me enjoys my shoulder and lap as a pillow. what can i say its better than a rattling window or staight up i guess. What I absutely can't stand about the situation and i can feel my hostility when I type this is the hawkers trying to sell me food and drink every two minutes. Yapping in the most droning and incessant tone it creeps into your innermost being . I don't know what it is but it's awful. I'm hungry and thirsty but would eat the pillow my head rests on and suck the dew off my moistened shirt before I encouraged there selling of things. You know when you are on an airpane in an aisle seat and the beverage cart bumps your elbow or makes you move your feet. Once or twice that might happen but not on this train. Once or twice every 5 minutes is more like it. I have no idea where I'll be staying once i get off this train but I anxioulsy await that decision!




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