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Funny thing is she lived alone, the poor darling, why would she need a lock on her bathroom door. I live in a house with 6 family members, when I use the bathroom, I lock the bedroom door, and leave the bathroom door open.

No chance of your card being skimmed for starters and if you forgot it at home, no need to worry to muk ????

Basically you can't. I know of two chaps who purchased used cars from dealers, both had their odometers wound back. One blew the motor within 6 months, out of warranty. The other, his odometer stopped working and he took it to the dealership of the car, not the car dealer he purchased it from and they told him it wasn't the original and that they had to replace it. His car was one year old with 17,000 kilometres, when he transferred the car to his name, he found out it was previously used by a courier company, so who knows how many clicks it had on it. I would never consider buying a used car here as you have little chance of anything being done to the a$$holes who get away with it. I purchased new 7 years ago and keep a record of everything, never an issue with the car with over 200 clicks on it now, and whoever buys it in the future can see things for what they really are.

Is this one time numbered code set up when you download the app or do they send you one when you put in your mobile number. I ask because I never have Wi-Fi when I leave home, and this system sounds better than using the card. Thx in advance.

Phuket at the moment is 29 degree Celsius, and where I am in Udon Thani it is pretty much the same at 28

In my opinion, whatever you do: 1) Do not tint the windows. Do you have any roof space above you, e.g. gable roof or flat etc ? The best thing you can do to stop the air leaving the room through the closed glass window panels, yes, air escapes from the window panels is to put up curtains, not thick where they will trap the suns heat in between the curtain and the window panels which will heat up the rooms, you want a curtains that are flimsy that won't trap the heat in, yet allow the cool air to circulate into the room and the heat coming in to cool at the same time. Add to that, think about putting an awning over the area outside where the sun hits the windows as you want to deflect the sun from the windows. We have a room where the sun hits in the afternoon, I have tried and tested many things as it used to heat up like an oven, and the awning which has clear tinted panels and the flimsy curtains do the job 100%. Also if you don't have any batts in your ceiling or sisalation under your roof tiles (assuming it's not a flat roof) your going to get hot real quick, sisalation is used to slow the heat entering through the tiles and the ceiling batts to stop the hot air entering the rooms below the ceilings and any cool air escaping through the ceiling into the roof space. There are many ways to keep your house cool, but you have to be prepared to pay $'s for it as there is no band aid solution and many farangs here don't want to spend the $'s so they suffer all day, year around, not suggesting your one of them. Whirlybirds also help pull the hot air out of your roof space although some may argue they don't, however I have been up there and witnessed it with many tests carried out by me and they are cheap, e.g. 24" for about 2,300 baht each. Somethings to note below: About Sisalation Energy-efficient Sisalation® is a high quality reflective foil insulation product that cost-effectively insulates and protects residential, commercial and industrial buildings against heat, cold, dust and moisture, as well as reducing air movement in the roof space. https://insulation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Brochure-Sisalation-Wrap-Selection-Guide-Consumer-web-res.pdf The thicker the ceiling batts the better: https://www.onestockhome.com/en/products/57010696/stay-cool-scg-thermal-insulation_thermal-insulation_scg Whirlybirds: I have a dual gable roof, with 900mm vented eaves on the sides, I also have vents under each gable and the house is cool all year around, no need for air conditioners albeit I have one in each room, at the hottest of nights, I will turn one on in our room for 15-20 minutes then off it goes while a floor fan on 1 circulates the cool air all night. As for my kids who share a room, they have theirs on all night on 26, no need, but hey, I spoil them, it's better than giving them candy. Any questions, fire away as my investment has paid off and most people that walk in on a hot day straight away say, oh nice and cool, air con, but fact is, air con is not on.

For what it's worth, I know a guy who had an accident in his own car, rear ended by a truck, driver in the truck drunk and on yaba daba doo. Insurance company started negotiations with the cops and the driver, he received 200k less than what his car was insured for, that said, if you were to get the car from a reputable car rental place I am sure this would be avoided as it would be between the insurance company and the car rental place, just something to chew over. Risk vs benefit ????

Personally, I would hire the vehicle from a reputable car rental place for the following reasons: 1) If the car is ridden off, you know the insurance company will cover it and if any damage they will fix it, you will be up for the waiver/excess of course, usually 10,000 baht unless you have travel insurance that includes that. 2) Car breaks down, they fix it and provide you with an alternate car asap. 3) No strain on the friendship if you have an accident, ride the car off, it gets stolen, it breaks down or if your friends insurance policy expired or didn't have any 1st class insurance, what happens then, and would he have a replacement car for you ready to go ? Like I said, personally, I like to keep friendships at arms length from any transactions that could put pressure on those friendships. At the end of the day, it's your call.

At 19, I am sure he will grow out of it and learn where to focus on putting his testosterone in the future, one would hope.

You mean Som Nam Naa if we are going to be spell checking officer ????

some nom nai, i.e. if he was racing, speed kills, lucky to have only lost a finger.

Who cares, are you so fragile that your wife has slept with someone else, that says it all.

Wow your really deep, and know very little IMO, but please do carry on convincing yourself that you know everything that you said about and let's leave it at that, because I have no time for people such as yourself. As for me getting my nickers in a knot over someone calling my wife a prostitute or hooker, far from the truth, you can call her whatever you like, I sometimes call her the village slut when she is 5 minutes late getting back from the local markets, she is not offended and corrects me occasionally, "village Queen".

Summed up exactly how it is for most. No female wants to work in an industry spreading her legs to strangers, that said, if they have an alternative choice. Let's look at an example, say a Thai woman in her early twenties with 2 kids got the sheet kicked out of her constantly buy her partner, who in the beginning turned out to be a good guy, but as soon as the kids came into the picture turned nasty, naturally that woman would depend on him to support her with two kids, after all, who is going to look after them when she is a 1,000 kilometres away from her family, that said, if she returned to the family with 2 more mouths to feed when they're doing it tough already, hence the reason that women left to go to BKK to work and send money back, ultimately she would have to leave her partner as the cops couldn't do anything to stop the abuse when neighbours would call them. That woman would have to return and then cop the harsh reality from her father about bringing two more mouths to feed with no money coming in, did I mention this is the reality of poor families, as opposed to westerners taking them in because they can afford too, only option with no education is to go to see a friend of a friend in a red light district, fortunately as you say, many can get picked up out of there pretty quickly by a farang and provided a life one could only dream of, that or end up with a cheap Charlie who takes them back to his country to look after his parents, all the time while living out of his parents garage to save on renting a place. I could go on, but I know you and most who have a good Thai wife who perhaps hit rock bottom looks at you as their hero and appreciates you every single hour of every single day, then there's the ones who turn into Hi-So wanna be's, but that's a different story. Fat of the matter is most farangs haven't got a clue of what really goes on or where these gals come or came from, for them it's easy to judge them for what they perceive them to be, and how they want them to be, they dominate them and treat them like <deleted>, now to me, having been with many women in my life's journey, I can't say that I have had a single woman do me wrong, why, because if you treat a woman with respect, she will want to stay with you forever, as for financial security, that is every woman's intention who cannot do it on her own due to lack of education or wanting to just be a humble house wife looking after her man, and there is nothing wrong with either in my opinion. As for the angry birds out there who judge the bargirls for what they see them as, well what can I say, it doesn't take much to have a personality, which they must all lack ????

Let's not forget they were all virgins too ????

Looks like someone got burnt by a bargirl, you can hold onto that for the rest of your life, enjoy every moment of it, or you can let it go, many get burnt by non bar girls, it's just a title, next thing you'll be telling us all is you've never paid for sex because your a hanhom man ???? Do me a favour, don't railroad the topic.

Um, I don't know where you get off, but the title my wife had, was the title she had. You see, I could go to any bar in any country and pick up a girl after buying her a few drinks and have sex with her, might be that night or another date after dinner, either way it would cost me, so what's the difference. Perhaps the women in a first world country has better job prospects, education prospects, government support etc etc, if you want to label women who offer sex for sale prostitutes or hookers, then I can only look down on you, as I choose not to judge people, some have very little choice, do you look down on the guy who sucks up the $hit from your loo, I bet you do, or is his title a better one because he is not selling sex, something we all enjoy and of course, some perhaps a lot if us use often. If your disgusted by the fact, then grow some balls man, life isn't perfect.

Wow looks like I'm the only one willing to admit that I married a girl who worked in a bar, did she charge for sex, der, did I buy her lady drinks, der. Q: How have the 15 plus years been married to her been, hmmm, the happiest and best years of my life. I know lots of guys who are married to bar girls who have also had good experiences with their wives, and of course I have heard (not met) guys who have had unsuccessful marriages to a bar girl. So what do we make of this, to me personally, it's not the title, or university that I look for in a person, it's their personality/character, and of course are they good, bad, caring, deceitful, liars etc etc, well humans come in all mixes, shapes and sizes, you just have to know how to navigate through it all and plant some traps along the way, trust has to be earned, that said, I also never mix finances in a relationship, nor do I wear my heart on my sleeve. As Forrest Gump said; life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get..... ???? At the end of all of this, there is a "happy ending" something a lot of people can't fathom for whatever their reasons, do I give a rat$ a$$, nope, each to their own, what works for me, might not work for you, but heaven forbid marrying a bargirl of all people....LOL

We have a section just outside our village that keeps getting patch jobs every time it rans, our kids play word games in the back when being driven to school over the patches and you can hear their voices shacking so to speak. Fortunately we have a modern car and it doesn't effect our comfort that much, but I got to feel for the motorbikes and those sardine cans that stick all the kids in to drive them to school, I think they call them Skylab's, not the songtail, they re bigger.

Update: Well what do you know, looks like wife lost face when I told her that I am asking on the forum who to call, e.g. she called the Mayor again, and the Mayor said after she called him last time (weeks ago), he received many calls and contacted the roads department who put him onto the contractor who he called, strangely enough that was the car that the wife said she saw. Mayor gave the wife the contractors number to call, she called and he said, he thought one of his crew fixed it, the wife said, NOPE, and he said he will come out again as soon as possible to look at it again. Told the wife to save his number, why you want me to keep his number she asked ???? How these people survive, I have no idea to be honest.

Yeh, nah, wife says road department, already been down that road with her so to speak. Latest is, she doesn't know how to contact them, <deleted>, primitive ????

We live in a village and about a year ago they (who ?) installed tall solar lights and they have improved the visibility driving down the main road to our village and they light the street up at night as opposed to it being pitch black. They have been out of order for about 2 weeks now, have asked the wife about 4 times to get onto it, however she says the mayor says not his job and she can't ring them the road people because they know of the problem (mind reader), she saw a car drive by the other day, so they know about it. Reminds me of the power outage we had for 18 hours the other night, 11pm-5pm the following day, at 11am I told her to ring them, she was reluctant, long of the short she did, and they had no idea there was a black out and thanked her for calling them to tell them, at 5pm the power was restored as they changed a whole transformer on one of those dual village poles. I am over asking her to call anyone because Thais have a different way of dealing with things than us farangs, so I am asking, does anyone know who I can call, they don't belong to PEA apparently, they are owned by the road department, so I am told, and I just need to call someone to say oi, get off your rears and sort it.

He appears to be a clown and every nose it. Bring him in line real quick, but do remember to duck if he turns your way when calling out to him.

One that doesn't do Hi-5's

I have to admit, rarely do I go over 23, but even at 37 in her case, I'm all in....