The small things appreciation thread

[Kampong Spooner]

There's a fair bit of negativity going on at the moment, so let's have a few little things which you like about the kingdom of wonder and avoid the over-paying for fruit, being robbed by a hooker, nearly killed by a RCAF plated SUV etc etc.

I just went to the shop with a handful of ring pulls with funny writing and got 7 cans of beer for them and an extra 1000r. Just pulled the first and 'won' another can.

I also always buy my food from the same few market stalls and don't get skanked (except for the orange skinned lady who rips me for fruit) and always get a handful of chillies and spring onions. I really like spring onions too, so it puts a smile on my dour face.

There are plenty of others too.

[General Mackevili]

I really need a $5 body massage with steam room.

Can't wait.

Not being able to walk 5 steps without being offered multiple Tuk-Tuk and motodop rides. That's a good thing.

[StroppyChops]

I really need a $5 body massage with steam room.

Do you have a $5 body?

[Jerry Atrick]

Water/sodas/cookies as a gift from the station when you fill the petrol tank.

[Jamie_Lambo]

Water/sodas/cookies as a gift from the station when you fill the petrol tank.

haha yes! i always get some nice wafer bars given when topping up

[AE86]

Since I learned to drive in the U.S., I learned that petrol was "supposed to be" about .25 a litre (.97 USD a gallon). The days of $5 getting me somewhere in a car are long gone, so whenever I fill up the Super Cub 50, I am happy because $5 worth of fuel still gets me a full tank.

EDIT: I also think that positive threads are a good thing, let's keep things like these coming so that we can smile after reading them instead of feeling more and more depressed.

[Cam Nivag]

I really need a $5 body massage with steam room.

Do you have a $5 body?

I await his report of being abused for offering only $4 at the end of the massage.

[StroppyChops]

I really need a $5 body massage with steam room.

Do you have a $5 body?

I await his report of being abused for offering only $4 at the end of the massage.

There are times I wish your mental images stayed in your head - there's not enough mind bleach for some of the stuff you think...

[TheGrinchSR]

It's always going to be the history here that leaves me happiest. The greatest civilization in the world left nary a shred of real evidence about what they did, who they were, etc. Sihanouk and Lon Nol's regimes barely left a trace either. And the accounts of the French period of colonization are contradictory and often total bollocks too. What a wonderful place where your history is obscured so you could, if you wanted to, just look forward rather than back.

[vladimir]

Not sure I agree, Grinch.

The patronage system has left its indelible mark.

I do think that the horrors of the past are well hidden, and hopefully vanquished, by the smiles.