Cambodia, there and back again! Part 1

I'm sitting on the side of the road in Aranyaprathet smoking an Indonesian cigarette and eating a packet of dried instant noodles from Vietnam. It's the 26th February and I should have been in Battambang, Cambodia right now. I'm actually about 100m from the Thai/Cambodian border but I'm not going there anymore. To be completely honest I don't know where I'm going, hell I don't even know where I'm going to be sleeping tonight.
I'm in a bit of a pickle, you see I have about 300 Thai Baht cash right now which could get me 1 night, or 2 - 3 days worth of food - it's one or the other. My Thai sim card expired yesterday.
The thought of sleeping rough is a very real one and I start to think about the possible places where it might be safe to sleep. Should I find a church or a Buddhist temple? Perhaps I should go to the train station? Should I just stay awake until tomorrow?

How did I get myself into this situation?...

How did I end up with a set of Visa stamps looking like this?

Cambodian immigration officers DGAF about crossing the border twice on the same day although to honest you can unofficially enter and leave Cambodia pretty easily by simply walking past the immigration office. 

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Around 30 hours ago I was in a train carriage, 3rd class (48 Baht - $2.20 NZD Feb 2019), from Bangkok, destined for the border town of Aranyaprathet. Don't let the 3rd class designation put you off, it's actually quite pleasant.

Aside from leaving a bag of longans in the fridge back at the hostel in Bangkok, everything was going swimmingly. I had my passport, debit cards, and Cambodian Visa; all I needed was to withdraw some USD from an ATM and I was away!

Burning off remnants of the harvest is common practice here

At the train neared the Cambodian border, the scenery began to change. I had noticed a steady declining trend in the level of infrastructure at each train station and village we passed.  The land on this side of Thailand was dry, giving off American wild west vibes. I'd seen stuff like this before, but only on the PS3, playing Red Dead Redemption.
Dried chaff and ashes drifted across the air into the carriage and settled on the floor where periodically they would spin around and form a mini whirlwind.