Recently my parents came to Thailand to visit my wife, daughter, and I. My wife and I took my parents to a statue shop they visit each time they come here. While parked in the only place that was wheelchair accessible we got our car wheel clamped by the local pretend police / mafia. While we were waiting for the imitation cop to show up to collect his bribe I glanced something black and shiny in a shop next to the statue shop.

At the front of the shop they had three standard typewriters that looked to be from the 1930s. One was a normal width, but the other two were wide carridge, for A3 size paper. On closer inspection they seemed to have most of their parts, but needed a good clean up; the most fun part of a new typewriter.

Now for the stupid me part. At the time I was fuming about our run in with the local mafia,  so I told myself that I didn't want another typewriter. I talked myself out of it.

But now, a few days later, I'm thinking that I shoud go back and at least take a picture. I just hope that no one else collects typewriters in Thailand.