Today was half-price day at the movie theater so I decided to go see “Knight & Day” starring Cameron Despaz and Tom Schnooze. It was… ok. Don’t waste your money, wait for the DVD. p.s. I have no idea where they got the title – I thought it would be from their last names or something… but no. Kind of stupid. Oh, and I could make a movie with better special effects.

Anyway, I got there at 3:45 because at night it gets really packed because of the promotion. I saw on the display that there was a showing at 3:30, which was perfect timing because I would only need to wait 15 minutes for the previews to end. The guy told me it had already started and I said I knew. His English sucked and he was confused so he went back to get a manager or something. I was waiting for like 5 minutes and finally some girl came out of the back and told me that there was no 3:30 showing. I tried to argue but there was no getting past them. So I reluctantly bought a ticket for the 5:00 showing and skulked away.

I guess I should preface this with my story about my sour cream issues. Well, remember the first time I went to Carrefour, and they had sour cream (among all the other goodies)? Well, I have been back there about 5 times SPECIFICALLY for the purpose of buying sour cream and they never frigging have it. 5 times! And I specifically went early in the day so it wouldn’t have been before all the sour cream had sold out. But still they never had it. I kept getting angrier and angrier and wondering if they had just stopped stocking it, or why they didn’t have several different kinds so at least one would be in stock. Finally I decided they had just discontinued it and I would never get sour cream again.

But I need it for my chili bake and nachos! So now that I had an hour to kill at Esplanade, I decided to walk down to Carrefour and verify that no, they indeed are not selling sour cream anymore. But on the way I decided that actually, they probably WOULD have it just this once, since I was waiting for my movie to start and didn’t have time to buy it and take it home and then get back to the theater.

So I arrived at Carrefour and guess what? No, guess what??? Yep, they friggin had it!! But it was a different brand. Which made me even more annoyed, since now I knew that they stocked TWO brands of sour cream, but some idiots were going in there and buying up the whole lot before I could ever get some. I left the store angrily and went back to Esplanade.

I was outside having a smoke and looked at the time… only 4:20. Then I realized fudge it, I DID have time to buy it and go back home because of the friggin 30 min of previews! So I walked back to Carrefour and bought the whole stack of sour cream. I think it was like 13 or something. Luckily sour cream freezes well. I took a motorbike taxi back home and dropped it off, and then walked back to Esplanade. I still had plenty of time.

Finally, to end the story, I was looking at the grid of all the store icons outside of Esplanade, and I realized that one of them was Tops supermarket. I knew it was there before but I got to thinking that it might have something special about it since I had seen a lot of farang coming out of there. Since I still had time, I decided to go check it out.

I went inside, saw the yogurt section and in 5 seconds I had found not one but TWO different brands of frigging sour cream. And fully stocked. I could have been going to get sour cream every day, and it’s closer to my house… FNA. At least now I know. Forget Carrefour and your stupid high prices.

And I still had to sit through 3 previews and 4 commercials…