Observations (TIT)

[ste860]

thais do other things like transfer money at atm machines , pay bills etc ,
its easier than going into a bank and filling paying in/transfer slips

there seems to be alot of thai bashing going on here ,no matter where some people are things will annoy them , thats life

[NOKYAI]

They may have to push more buttons as I have seen notices on some machines that they are 'cardless' so presumably have to put in account numbers or something.

[Takiap]

thais do other things like transfer money at atm machines , pay bills etc ,
its easier than going into a bank and filling paying in/transfer slips

No excuse. They all have "smart phones", and considering how much time they spend on their phones, they should have online banking sorted out.

there seems to be alot of thai bashing going on here ,no matter where some people are things will annoy them , thats life

Nobody is bashing the Thais, but until they stop annoying us, we're going to continue moaning.


BTW..........my comments are not meant to be taken seriously.


PS: Just in case you're not aware of it........a lot of Farang bashing goes on between Thai people as well. Human nature is a wonderful thing...........so complex.

[Big Boy]

thais do other things like transfer money at atm machines , pay bills etc ,
its easier than going into a bank and filling paying in/transfer slips

there seems to be alot of thai bashing going on here ,no matter where some people are things will annoy them , thats life

Definitely, no Thai bashing intended by me - I'm simply trying to understand things in my new environment. I would rather ask why, and understand the reason than go around saying that Thais are stupid because they do this or do that. There is usually a logical answer to most questions.

Transfer of money, is obviously one thing that I have never used an ATM for, and offers a logical explanation for some of the exceptional waits - thank you. However, I'm still trying to find out why it takes 5 minutes to get 500 Baht out of an ATM.

[STEVE G]

However, I'm still trying to find out why it takes 5 minutes to get 500 Baht out of an ATM.

They'll do it quicker if you let them use your card!

[Big Boy]

We had a power cut in the Bon Kai area for a couple of hours earier today. I was amazed to see shops with automatic doors putting up notices because the automatic door mechanism stopped working with no electricity. Surely there must be manual overrides.

Another observation was that despite the widespread power cut, all ATMs continued working normally.

[sargeant]

I've seen these people and I think is what they're doing is paying bills for people who haven't got bank accounts or money for a fee or something of that nature. I've been at the Bangkok Bank ATM on Petchakasem road before and have given up waiting for some guy doing countless transactions from a notebook of numbers he was holding.

A lot of them especially the ones with a lot of cards are money lenders of different sorts
It is quite common for people to give their cards as guarantee the lender will get their money back

[TimandT]

Another observation was that despite the widespread power cut, all ATMs continued working normally.

I should imagine as there are frequent power cuts here that the ATM's have back up power supply battery packs

[hhfarang]

I always pull over out of the way and let ambulances by. You never know when I may be inside one of them and I hope other people will get out of the way.

[traveller2]

Same here HHF, but it always suprises me how many do not, even in the UK as well as Thailand.

T2

[dtaai-maai]

We had a power cut in the Bon Kai area for a couple of hours earier today.

Here's an observation of the good and the bad of Thailand.

First the bad:

Some idiot was let loose with a chainsaw to trim some trees that were encroaching on the electricity cables a few houses down from us. He was obviously being careful not to cut through the cables, but not intelligent enough to consider that heavy branches falling onto the cables might cause some damage...
Result - fai dap!

The good:

An electricity company truck with two fine fellows turned up less than 2 hours later (after 5 on a Saturday afternoon) and had it fixed in half an hour.