Had an interesting thing happen today while I spent 8 hours at Major Ekamai. I know what you're thinking...what kind of a loser hangs out there for that long. Well MK followed by King Naresuan followed by 6 games of bowling will do that...

 Anyway...while heading out of the theater the escalator was packed...I mean really packed. Ever see the escalators at Major Ekamai? I mean the ones in the theater itself? A single escalator must go up about 3 flights. So I get on with my friend in front of me and at the bottom I can see some commotion. I'm not really sure what's going on but I see more and more people bunching up. Well we can't exactly move off and the people at the top would need binoculars to see what's happening so sure enough we all get mechanically compressed by this thing. As we approach the bottom I see some kid has his shoe lace caught. There's about 4 staff trying to help him and it isn't working. Why some kid with his laces untied doesn't think to take his foot out is beyond me but I guess people panic in life and death situations like this. Anyway..that's what triggered the whole thing. The pressure buildup then forced my friend to break her heel. Anyone with experience buying those 199 baht shoes on the side of the road knows they have an average lifespan of about 4 days so this really isn't unexpected. However, when the heel goes it exposes 2 nails. Sure enough as I pile into the crowd the nails go into my foot. While I'm dealing with the pain I'm struggling to break out and get off the damn thing when some woman ends up getting knocked to the ground. Mistakenly I offer my hand to help her up. I say mistakenly because it must be similar to the "you smelt it...you dealt it" rule for her and she instantly thinks I knocked her down and gives me a dirty look. Ok...no prob...she apparently didn't see the other 25 people ahead of her compressed into about 3 feet of escalator space. She refuses to take my hand and instead stumbles around for a few seconds while getting back up.All in all it was funny as hell. Then it dawned on me...I'm constantly catching my fingers on those stupid emergency buttons so why didn't I think to push one. That's when I looked back and realized that escalators of 200 meters or more apparently are only required to have 2....both at floor level...one at the top and one at the bottom. Very useful. So useful in fact that even the 4 highly trained ERT staff that helped the kid didn't think to use them.Ciao,

You gotta admit that women love buying shoes so the cheaper the better it is. Of course i'm not talking about its quality. This cheap shoes can be wearing for about a month or less (in most of my cases). So its ok for you to buy new shoes without feeling guilty to spend more money on shoes lol

Right.. No problems replacing her shoes...it's mine that'll cost me. For some reason I decdied to wear my good work shoes that day. Go figure...