Whether that was a function of tired or the pills from the pharmacy that Eddie took is unknown – although we did figure out it was probably a generic form of Benadryl.
After breakfast we came back to the room and read for a bit. Larry had tried to go next door to the 7-Eleven for a Sunday paper. The report back – they sell lots of things, but no newspapers. Oh well, the world will have to happen without us this week.
About noonish we decided it was time to vacate the room and head to the beach. It’d been fairly windy early in the morning, but didn’t seem to be quite as hot as it had been the day before. We got down to the beach, negotiated our real estate holdings from the landlord (“Not down there, not my chairs,” he said.) and were once again set up with loungers and an umbrella.
We have figured out that the place to do all of one’s Christmas Shopping is from a lounger at Patong Beach in Phuket. Why, you may ask? Because if you sit there long enough, eventually the entire J.C. Penney catalog will be paraded past you and offered for sale.
Notice in the pictures, one woman is carrying a bucket with cold drinks (we think). They also come by with a variety of food items. That seems to be one enterprise, though, since many of them are wearing a yellow vest with numbers on them.
The others, like in the second pic holding up the silk robe, appear to be freelance operators, bringing by a variety of different things to sell -- T-shirts, swimsuits, cover ups, sarongs, beach towels, manicure sets (as well as manicure / pedicure services), carved figurines of every conceivable persuasion, brooms, brushes, pots, pans, hats, sunglasses, jewelry – you name it, someone will walk by and offer to sell it to you eventually.
Most are nice enough if you simply shake your head and say, “No Thanks.” Show the slightest interest, though, and they will show a level of customer service that we could only hope to achieve at Sears!
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