Coming full circle

I started my trip to Thailand right here in Bangkok a few weeks ago and am concluding it here as well...right on Khoa San Road. My flight, only an hour in duration, felt like forever with this annoying Egyptian child behind me on her father's lap kicking my seat constantly. The plane was scheduled to take off at 1300, but we sat and waited for the late Egyptian family to board...thought that was extra nice of Thai airways! The 6 of them were sitting directly behind me and this little kid had her own seat behind her mother but insisted on sitting on her father's lap. I thought..."I'll just endure it, it's really not that long", but 40 minutes into the flight I just could not stand it anymore and had to say something to the father. I just don't get it. How do you think it's ok to let your child sit in your lap and kick the seat the ENTIRE flight?!

They served this really weird "snack" which was basically a triangular shaped thing made of seaweed with rice inside and strips of shrimp. I passed...enjoyed my nescafe instead.

Grabbed my backpack and hopped in a cab which seemed to take longer to navigate through Bangkok than the flight to get here. The driver tried to charge me 300B for a ride that was 225B. I felt like screaming, "this is my 3rd time in Bangkok, I'm not as gullible as you think I am!!!". I paid him exactly what I owed, and not a baht more. Besides, I think he took the "long route" anyway...it definitely was a different than the last time...

I walked over to D&D Inn, ideally located right smack in the middle of all the action of Khoa San Road...and which the guidebooks say is a great place to meet people with rooftop pool. They emailed to say that they could not hold a room for me but I might get lucky and arrive before they're all gone. The woman (I think?) at the lobby said that the cheapest room they had available was 750B. I said I wanted their single room for 550, but she kept saying the more expensive one was their "last room available". Suddenly when I was about to leave, they miraraculously "found" a cheaper room...550B just as it quoted in the guidebook. Wow, here less than an hour and they're at it already!

So I'm all checked in and the room is not bad, except it faces the street and I have already been warned that it will be loud, but I'm only here for 2 nights, surely it can't be that bad...

Anyway...excited to be back in the city of cheap eats! Heading out to grab some streetside Pad Thai for dinner and see where the night takes me...