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The inside lane, unless you are going at walking speed, is the "death" lane on a motorbike here. Countless people on all manner of transport pull out or cut in , right in front of you without looking. It's also the lane with the worst potholes and is likely to have anything parked on it from Noodle sellers to artic trucks. I find that the safest place to be is on the outside right of the first car lane as this gives you the most freedom of movement to get out of the way of other traffic. It also helps if your going faster than the general speed of the surrounding traffic as this minimises the risk of being rear ended...

You're assuming that FaceBook cares enough to break it's privacy policy for something thats not going to make it money...

When they start getting proper pay and training. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting...

A fine piece of victim blaming...

With very good reason...

20,000 Bht fine??? 2 years jail??? ****in Muppets...

You probably get a decent pension so you don't need any from your kids. Try living on 600 Bht/month which is what they get from the gov. here...

You took the words right out of my mouth, brown envelopes...

Udonjoe, thank you very much, you've helped to make sense out of a very confusing and stressful situation for me, hopefully I can resolve this in the next couple of weeks...

@udonjoe Sorry, getting a bit confused as I'm quite flustered about this. I can get the visa cancelled at the school province, then go and get the wife visa in her own province?

@udonjoe So my wife has to come to the province where I'm working? I can't go to her province to do it as I didn't get my original non B there? And I need the letter from the school stating my finishing date?

Hi all, but more particularly @Udonjoe. as said above I'm retiring from my school and need to Change Non B extension to a visiting Thai wife extension, I went to the local immigration to attempt to do this, they had a new officer, she promptly rejected the schools finishing letter I'd been given and said that I had to go to the immigration office where my wife lives, with my wife to do this, which is 550 km away. She was very abrupt and rude to me, obviously didn't like me or "farangs" in general, having lived here for 10 years I recognize the type, I retreated, somewhat confused to the school office where my head of department and a couple of office workers went to immigration without me to try to find out what was going on. They came back with what this officer said that I had to do. In short, she told them to get confirmation of finishing from the Ministry of Education and my work permit closed. I know that this is the procedure for closing a Non B visa but NOT an extension as this, as far as I'm aware will instantly invalidate my visa extension and make me have to go to immigration on the same day that my work permit is closed to get a 7 day extension by the end of which, I'd have to leave Thailand, which I don't want to do. I think that my best course of action is to explain to the school why not to do this, make sure that I have a "correct" letter from them stating my finishing date and signed by the director, and take that, my wife, her house book, marriage certificate and ID card, and my yellow house book to her province ASAP to get me extension changed to non O visiting my wife and then doing a one year marriage extension at some point later. @udonjoe and anyone else who has experience, do you think that I am doing this correctly?

They'll need them at the rate this government is going ????

Well she would say that wouldn't she?

You beat me to it...

They're just doing what their told to do by the higher ups, (not that it makes them any better people)...

I wonder how much that cost em in brown envelopes?

Very lucky to get a cell phone signal at all, out in the sticks here. We only get one about 1/3 of the time in our village, never mind in the jungle...

Not much of a life for the dogs, kept in cages, I bet that they were howling constantly. Still didn't deserve poisoning though. The owner, maybe...

A flash in the pan...

I used to use it 4 - 5 years ago, whenever I tried to use it in the last couple of years it just gets refused as payment, then takes you to some card validation site that doesn't work...

A Lou Reed song lyric puts it perfectly, can't remember the name of the song, but it's on the Transformer album... " you keep, hanging round me, I'm not, so glad you found me, you still do the things that I gave up years ago"...

The first thing to do when you turn your engine off at a checkpoint is grab your keys and pocket them, this usually gets a rueful smile and aids you in appearing too much trouble to get tea money from...

This whole "not accepting laminated copies" business is ridiculous. Laminating is a sensible approach to not having a document rot away in a tropical climate. The UK is the same, do these stupid burocrats think that forging a document then laminating it is in any way easier than forging a document and not laminating it? F***ing morons...

Is there any difference?