Then, when the office opened, they would rush to get in queue to get their queue numbers. Of course, this wasn’t foolproof. I remember several times turning up at my local prison at 5:30am only to find a dozen markers in the line but only a couple of people waiting there. What they had done was put magazines on the floor for their friends who would come later. One interesting thing that I learned from this is that Thais have a thing about books on the floor. It’s considered bad manners to step over a book. I used to see quite a few people step around the books. Some even dipped their heads a little.