A car
entered the circular drive that went around the statue. She got up to
guide its driver where to park. She hoped that by helping to ensure
that he didn't crash into parked cars that he would pay her a few baht
as others had. She did not beg. She did not prostitute herself. She
only did that.
"I could do something like that. It's honest," thought Jatupon.
She continued to use hand gestures as the driver backed up according
to her directions. "This is a good girl. I want someone like that to
become my wife," he thought. No sooner had this idea come to him than
the car sped up and ran over her. Then it stopped and the driver
hurried out. The driver held her in his hands and Jatupon felt her
pulse. There was none and he dropped the arm. He walked through the
gate to a woman sitting within the park on a sheet on top of a grassy
knoll. He sat on the sheet in front of her and before the spread of
fortune telling cards.
"I don't see much future in it" she said. "Being in love with an
elder brother. There is no future in it from what I see."
"Those are just cards. How would you know?" he whined
"Yes, those are just cards but you don't even need to look into
the cards to see something like that.
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