A royal temple in Ayutthaya just asked police to remove a round wooden dining table.
Reason given: inauspicious.
The table’s crime was not the wood on the table, but wood at the wrong place.
It was the company it kept.
CCTV turned a breakfast setting into national news. The abbot is defrocked. The devotee is named in every comment thread. The furniture is the only thing that cannot speak — so it got evicted.
Thai timelines are now split into two schools of thought
Burn the table.
Auction the table.
A third, quieter group is simply measuring their own dining set and deciding it has seen enough.
Some objects are built for meals.
Some become evidence.
A rare few become folklore before lunch is cleared.
If your catalogue still pretends tables are only for rice and conversation — the country has updated the spec.