FUNEREAL HOW-TO's FROM 7-ELEVEN

Fee spotted this book on the rack in our neighborhood convenience store, and couldn’t resist spending the 50 baht (about $1.35) to add it to her library. Subtitled “Everything you don’t want to know, but should know”, it describes the myriad aspects of a Thai funeral.

We have conjectured that perhaps because they perform funerals just a block away (we’ve recently heard the traditional monks’ chant followed by karaoke) the books are a impulse buy item…come in for a Coke, leave a more informed mourner.

In all, further proof of two things: 1) we don’t really understand everything that goes on around us and 2) that, indeed, 7-Eleven has just about everything: total convenience, from Alpha to Omega.