Just remind me, is it 2 days or 3 days you've been in the country now?

Cheers,

Schrodinger's Dog wrote: You don't need to live in Cambodia for x year to know about stuff like that.

True, but it may be helpful in knowing how to deal with it.

Schrodinger's Dog wrote:That's one of the reason why I would rather risk spending a night in jail than paying $100+ to a fake cop motherfucker.

I just hope that you're aware that we continue to see a pattern here.

People first arrive and say they'll never pay a bribe. You were just on another thread offering $50 to anyone who could give you the address of some local Cambodians that abuse their children.

What was your plan? Show up there alone and beat their assess to show them a lesson and walk out of there alive? I addressed your plan and tried to point out that while your heart might be in the right place, the plan itself was irrational and not in the least helpful to the situation.

Many people feel like this when they first arrive. They don't last here long.

Again, you're new and just can't fathom not fighting every single one of these things tooth and nail. Fair enough, but you either change that attitude a bit and manage to stay, or you don't and you're time in Cambodia will be very short.

And it's not like we're a bunch of pussies that get pushed around by crooked cops every day, we've just been here longer and see the bigger picture, just as you will sooner than later if you have any chance of staying.

Hopefully you'll be here long enough to see the same exact pattern with new arrivals yourself.

I'm far from a pushover, yet I've paid traffic fines without receipts, etc.

So again, not knocking you, but that kind of attitude won't help you stay for very long if you don't learn to take a little give a little. That's all.