Discount tours and custom made suits

What a strange way to leave Thailand, standing in a suit store pretending to be interested in the made-to-order garb a man was pitching me. This is what I was confronted with yesterday, the day before my flight out. A man approached Ryan and I asking if we wanted to take a wat tour around Chinatown. We quickly waved him off, wanting to spend as little money as possible during our one night stopover. I couldn't help be interested in his offer, however, when he gave us the price of 50 Bhat for a 2 hour tour. I was a bit suspicious of such a cheap tour, but we listened to what he had to say. He told us that all we had to do was stop at a few souvenir shops along the way, pretend to be interested in buying something, and he would get a gas voucher from the businesses. Seemed easy enough. We started on our way and about 2 minutes into the ride he found out we were leaving Thailand the next day. He abruptly pulled the taxi into a gas station and said he could not take us to the wats, but that if we stopped at one store he would take us back to where he picked us up and would not charge us anything. He explained that one of the stops is the government run tourist bureau and if they found out we were not truly interested in anything then he would get in a lot of trouble. So we agreed and soon found ourselves outside of a tailored suit store in the middle of Chinatown. We had no idea what he had gotten ourselves into, especially when the driver said, "You have to really pretend like you want something, because if the owners find out you don't, they will beat me up." So we went in and started looking at the different fabric they had. A salesman quickly came up to us and tried to sell us something. We kept saying that we were just looking, but he insisted that we try some jackets on. We did this, and the salesman found one that was "just my size." The jacket barely buttoned up in the front because it was so tight. So we politely declined and said we wanted something that was already made because we were leaving the next day. The salesman then got angry and told me the only way to buy a pre-made suit was to buy it from a second hand store where "a man died and his family sold his old suit to the store." I found this rather comical, but the man was not amused, he fumed a bit, tried to get us to try on a few more jackets and then we decided to just leave. Needless to say, it is not what I expected on my last full day in Thailand, but then again, when is anything ever what I expect?

Peace and love.