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In that case, they are lethal..... The person who ok’d these must be a total and utter imbecile...

You would have to do the ‘exchange’... Then go to the DLT in Bangkok and register the car in your name. Either the seller (previous owner) goes with you to the DLT (which is easier), or he signs over the car blue book and a couple of documents (*see below) and his ID, and you can go to the DLT yourself (risk of something missing). You will need your Passport (copies ID and visa), you will need Certificate of Address. You’ll pay a nominal transfer fee / tax. After you have transferred the car into your name (at the DLT) which should not take more than 30mins (depends on queues). You can then drive your new car to Hua Hin. Once in Hua Hin you can go about re-registering your car locally. Forms required if transferring without presence of owner: *Auto ownership transfer form *Power of attorney for car transfer *Car registration and ownership transfer (link to thread which contains the forms). https://aseannow.com/topic/1147974-power-of-attorney-to-sell-car/

Of course... Go back further and we didn’t have cars... we survived. We didn’t have internet, we survived. We’ve also evolved as a society..... we covet convenience because we want to do more than survive, we want to enjoy our time and quality of life. ------- Wife and I do often stay in and cook amazing food.... but we don’t want to do that every day. Good food takes time, effort and care, its enjoyable to make... but we don’t always have the time or want to spend that amount of effort... Bangkok is an amazing city for food - we can order out and get excellent quality for cheaper than it would cost to cook for ourselves.... then there is no prep, no cleaning etc... the options and choice for ordering food are amazing..... IF the delivery is reliable. The complaint of this thread (the Op) is that delivery can be somewhat of a weak-link in the system. A valid point I think.

If they were on bicycles instead of motorcycles the speed would obviously be less, but the same issues would still exist with stray dogs knocking them off, with the additional issue of strays chasing the kids of bicycles because they can keep up with them. I think the legal limit for motorcycles is 15 yrs at certain cc limit (110cc ???) - as you mention, that can still reach speed. No helmets and no road eduction is clearly an issue. In schools (world wide) students learn so many various subjects, but they are never taught life skills. Many of those students may never need their chemistry, maths etc but nearly all of them will ride or drive and learning to do that safely will be more important than anything else they may learn (the same can be said for water safety). Thus: Education and enforcement of existing laws - Thailand is failing its youngsters. But... even with education and enforcement of existing laws, stray dogs are still an issue and something need to be done about that.

Cattle won't get in an elevator, they are cowards. Have to try some udder way. Not ‘amooosed'... but, at least you are attempting to lighten the ‘beef’ between the ‘pro’ vs ‘anti’ delivery guys !!! which give us time to take ’stock’ of the situation...

In Bangkok we would usually get that two week spell of awesomeness when the humidity drops right down and we can turn off the AC and open the windows.... ... I recall one year, being able to open the balcony doors and enjoy my morning coffee... in t-shirt, jeans and yes... socks !!!.. Its cold enough that people without heating and warm clothes die.... (up north of course). And yes, it doesn’t get as cold as it does in the UK... but then we can have the Canadians join this argument and they’ll tell us the UK doesn’t get cold !!.... We can just agree - its not warm and it can get uncomfortably cool in just shorts and a t-shirt. An awesome time of year I wish lasted 4 months or more !!!

A sweater ?? That’s what we call the festering sex-pests sweating out last nights pi$$ while walking to their local bar at 10am...

I think most people ‘up country’ ride this way because they simply copy everyone else without really thinking about it. Unless all the traffic is going 100-120kmh and your motorcycle can only travel at 80kmh then of course, its better being out of the way of the traffic. But... IF the traffic is going 80-100kmh and you are on a motorcycle that can easily reach 140kmh, that shoulder on the left is the most dangerous place to be IMO. In any stretch of road, the more vehicles passing you, the more risk you are at of getting hit... i.e. in a 10kmh stretch you are travelling at 50km on the shoulder, 50 cars pass you, the probability of one of them not paying attention and drifting off the road is present. But, if you are travelling at 90kmh with the speed of the traffic, the only vehicle you have to worry about hitting you is the car behind. Obviously there is more to it than that, but thats the basic crux of it. Riding on the shoulder with the gravel, litter, dogs, a pop-up fruit stall, something fallen of a pickup the day before etc... is just far risker IMO.... These lights should not be a hazard because riding down that thin stretch of littered road is more dangerous.

They have Grab... LineMan... RobinHood... They all have an English option on the App. Plus there are some others for supermarket stuff such as HappyBee etc.. all very convenient. It’s great when we have friends around and run out of beer etc.. We can just ask LineMan or Grab to get us more beer !!... ....Of course I’ll get slammed for this and the dumb-ar$es will suggest go get the beer yourself, or should have planned better etc etc... The convenience of the delivery services in Thailand is awesome... but, when you think I’ll order Grab tonight and then that becomes a hassle the ‘minor’ irritation is easily understood, even if you are one of the tools who is telling people to cook or go and get their own food !!!

I think some people think slow is safe... so they ride slowly and stay as far to the left of their lane as possible. I’ve always considered this more dangerous, it encourages other vehicles to try and pass you thus squeezing you further left etc... IMO - its best to ride with the speed of the traffic in a real lane, command your position on the road, be seen - be a part of the traffic and not Somchai’s after thought to be squeezed out of the way. - There’s also just less road junk on the main part of the road, the frontage parts of the road are riddled with litter and gravel.

Cat's can be an utter irritation too... There’s one in my moobaan which keeps ‘spraying’ up my car and motorcycle.... I’ve bought some spray-repellant to put down and an ultra-sonic deterrent. I don’t know if either of them will work. If they don’t I’ll have little choice but to ask the owner to have the cat spayed so it glands are removed and it doesn’t want to spray everywhere (or can’t). If that doesn’t work, then what ??? I wonder if the owner minds me pi$$ing on his car....

I would say it is pathetic if your wife is so incompetent and a snowflake that she is so dependent on a grab food delivery to stop your son going hungry. If she can't manage to cook some food for herself and your son if you are not there then there is something seriously wrong. Your take away from this is my Wife’s ability to cook ?.... This is the issue with these forums, some posters are so gallactically stupid they project utterly idiotic strawman fallicies into a discussion and don’t have the basic intelligence to recognise they are doing it. A persons ability to cook has little to do with online ordering of food and the poor service by the delivery company.... You’re really quite stupid if you can’t see that.

I bet you suck the life out of parties if your comments are your idea of a sense of humor !!!....

Yeah,.. I know, my argument was out there the midst of ‘strawman fallacy’.... ... the point I was trying to make is that these guys either want to work or they don’t. Being a delivery driver or taxi driver involves being prepared to do the job they’ve agreed to do. So, if a rider accepts the ‘delivery job’ to take your order, then cancels because he doesn’t want to do it - its irritating (and its happened a few times) - the same with GrabTaxi’s. I’m sympathetic to the drivers, they get a decent tip etc... because they are doing something I don’t want to do myself. But, if everyone just got their own food or cooked for themselves, these guys wouldn’t have any work. It is their ‘cherry picking’ of the jobs which generates the irritation that the Op has pointed out. IF there were no GrabDelivery service at all, something else would fill that ‘void’ i.e. another service !!!

These dumbed down responses really miss the point...

That would be inconvenient... How would they get the cow in the elevator ? People of course could make their own burger etc.... I certainly have done in the past, but sometimes I don’t have all the right ingredients, the right bun etc.. and there’s always that one place that makes excellent burgers better than I can. Food delivery is a way of life and has been for well over a decade... When a ‘delivery service’ cherry picks whether or not it wants to deliver, customers are right to have misgivings. That’s almost like a restaurant turning away customers because it just doesn’t feel like serving them tonight, then some posters on this forum suggesting... just go home and cook, or just go to a different restaurant... It kind of obtusely sidesteps the point.

I don’t really want to do my job sometimes, either... but... I imagine sometimes airline pilots sometimes don’t feel like going away from their families for a few days, either... but... If grab had a known policy that their riders won’t deliver in the rain thats different - but they offer a service... People want to use delivery because they don’t want to go out for any reason... rain, laziness, tiredness or just simple convenience.... it doesn’t matter, a company is ’theoretically’ offering that service... .... But, if that ’service’ only operates on a ‘when it suits them’ basis, then I can understand the irritation of a potential customer (i.e. the OP). The other facet of this is the ‘game’ the drivers play. To work for grab they have to accept a certain amount of orders (or rides), then the start messing around, take too long to get to the restaurant, or call up and ask us to cancel etc... they’ve accepted the ‘order’ knowing they don’t want to fulfil it. Not every moobaan or condo has a restaurant next to it... They could also nip to 7-11 get some bread and and make toast.... The point is that there is a service which markets itself as a ‘delivery service’ which only delivers when it feels like it. And yes, complain about it on here... because thats what we do on forums... make observations, sometimes good, sometimes negative and we discuss them. Agreed... there’s always plenty of options in the house... but if we just ‘want something’ then we order it. Thats the convenience of modern living. ... Sometimes I just want that ‘burger’ from a specific shop thats 3km.. to far to walk, traffic is too bad to drive... the convenience of being able to order something is welcomed in every city and town world wide.

I think the answer to that one, particularly given some of the responses is fairly obvious... .... but, people generally don’t really like to admit that they were behaving like a bit of a ???? !!! so, I suspect you’ll only get further deflection !!! .....

These sort of ‘smart arsed’ responses are really too predictable on these fora... The whole point of a ‘food delivery company’ is to deliver food... Your response is akin to someone posting a gripe about taxi’s and you telling them drive themselves.... it completely misses the point and only serves you make the poster of said response look like a ????end.... -------- Now... While I’m away and my Wife wants to order something from Grab and the same thing happens... Would you tell her to go herself and collect the food herself? who watches our son?... ah.. take him with her... ok, but the traffic is terrible because its raining, so no point taking the car. Ah... don’t be so lazy and cook herself you say ???.... You see where this is going, don’t you ???..... When we have a gripe about a certain service we have to justify our need for said service to posters such as yourself to avoid dumb$$ responses.... Not clever Mac... !!!...

Sadly the very same degree of non-confrontationalism and acceptance which makes Thailand a very enjoyable place to be for many of us is exactly the same reason Thailands political system has always been the way it is and why this illegal authoritarian parliamentary dictatorship continues...

Prayut survives, so what’s next? .... I’d expect at least some further suppression of freedom of speech....

Even after googling... you still fail to recognise you have ceased to debate the debate and are instead targeting the individuals with whom you disagree.... .. to use my own ad hominem... you clearly do not have the intellectual tools to continue, but there are a couple of running threads such as ‘did you waste your life’ and ‘Is it safe to bring a freelancer to your apartment / condominium room?’ which you may not find less cerebrally tasking !!

Hmm... ad hominem...

No... I didn’t see that thread... But, I’d hazard a guess that it wasn’t the benevolent act which upset the locals - more to the story ?

How feckless does a potential burglar have to be to leave ‘bolt cutters’ on a place he has ‘cased’ ??? Utterly brain dead, but could also be an indication of the mental state of the potential burglar... drugged up, drunk etc.... Its wholly irritating that the Police don’t care at all... utterly lazy. Thats no blight on the Thai police. In the UK the police aren’t even bothered after a burglary.