Scalping doughnuts.......

This is Krispy Kreme in Bangkok:

 
 It just opened a few months ago, and well, Krispy Kreme chose the perfect place to open...because this is the line to buy doughnuts at Krispy Kreme:

Yes, that is outside of the store.  They called people in shifts to enter and buy doughnuts.  Once inside you have to choose if you are the "original glazed only" type or the "assorted" type.  Once you decide, that is the kind you will get...it doesn't matter how appealing a NY cheesecake doughnut sounds after you are in the original glazed line.

This is my happy husband, after we stood in that crazy line:

While in the line we were approached by this guy:

(The guy on the right of the picture, with the shifty eyes......)

to buy a dozen doughnuts from him for a higher price, so we could skip out on the line.

He is just one of what seems to be a million people who are trying to make a baht or two off of the brilliance that is Krispy Kreme, by selling dozens of doughnuts to salivating people passing by.

Literally across the street from Krispy Kreme in Bangkok I passed FIVE different stands selling dozens of Krispy Kreme doughnuts for prices 50 - 150 baht more than at the store. What that means in US dollars: a dozen glazed is 249 baht or $8.30, people on the street are selling them for anywhere from 300 baht ($10) to 400 baht ($13.30) RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE STORE!

Today I am proud to be a North Carolinian.