The confounding enigma that is the money making voodoo box in the wall baffles crowds of people. They are either huddled round the magic unit in awe at the flashing lights and huge sums of money displayed while having a conference over what button to press next while a queue longer than that at the ticket stand for a nude Shakira concert forms behind them.
Or one brave nominee will take all the ATM cards from his family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, and the woman at the som tam stand and proceed to take out and transfer small sums of money between them while a queue longer than that at the ticket stand .....
If they had a big sign on the thing explaining to people that you really don't need to remove and replace the card everytime you want to transfer andther 134 baht to uncle Sombats account it would alleviate the confusion.
We British are very proud of our queue discipline which seems to be lost on Thais who often are suddenly afflicted by total blindness when there is a farang standing there. They sometimes do regain vision and you get a sheepish grin from them as if to say "I do know how to operate this thing .... honest".
