I met Fu at 6:30 so we could beat the crowds and we arrived at the market just after 8:00. Things were still cool and uncrowded and I negotiated a two-hour ride in a dugout boat. Tawn suggested that I use this negotiation technique: after rejecting the original quote out of hand, I was to say “phom mai bpen muu” – I am not a pig, a reference to the slang term of someone who is an easy mark.