So, I guess a lot of people have a tendency to fudge around the figures in the stories that they tell, and I find it very funny when I hear the same stories twice with different numbers in it.

For example, right after my aunt took my cousins for a trip to Australia many years ago, she came back to tell us that the kids missed Thai food so much that they had to order Thai omelet (ไข่เจียว) that cost 400 Baht after the conversion. (Well, of course, having been in the US for 6 years, I was definitely not surprised by the price tag.)

A few months later, when she retold this story to other family members (with me in the vicinity), the price of that said omelet suddenly went up to 600B. So, I just couldn’t help commenting to her that with the Thai Baht’s value increasing (against USD) on a daily basis (during that time), Australian dollars must’ve been skyrocketing to account for this difference in just a few months!!!!

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Last night, I had the TV on in the background as I was browsing around the net, and it happened to be tuned to this certain cable TV channel which was covering a certain live event with a certain someone’s speech (which, by the way, I neither endorse nor agree with, but that’s not the point of the story I’m trying to tell.) Anyway, somewhere in the rhetoric speech, a figure of 500 million baht* came up.

But of course, when my grandma recounted this story to my mom the next morning, the figure somehow became 5,000 million baht. A 10 times increase overnight!

*laughs* That must’ve been some kind of crazy hyperinflation to make the value of 500MB equal 5,000MB overnight! d:

* But of course, in light of what we know about people’s tendency to exaggerate, I don’t even think that 500MB was really all there in the first place… d :