KMartinHandyman

Her or he make up your mind police officer 

 

Phuraphi,Phumraphi, same same.

I agree, no way José.
 
Literally yesterday, I opened a second SCB account to deposit my shiny new pension payments.
 
It took over an hour of mostly sitting watching 3 pretties and the branch manager (who I've known for years) battling with a flaky IT system (taking screen photos and sending them by Line to HQ) before I got my new passbook and debit card (MasterCard).
 
Multiple copies of everything, all signed, lost count of how many times I entered my preferred PIN number.
 
All good fun. 

I don’t mind the pretties part at BB. Recently we had to open a new joint account because unbelievably they have no ability to add me to one of my wife’s exists accounts. Surprisingly it was rather expedient as we both have accounts there and brought all of the needed identifications.
Then came the phone call after returning home,, “can you come back to sign something we forgot,,sorry”
Then there was the time she exchanged U.S. dollars for Baht and the call came an hour later,,”we gave you too much,can you come to the bank and give it back?”

I thought safety for growers was going to warn about the risk of them being found dead with their weed and money missing.

Im sure this explains why we couldn’t get a meter taxi to go from Nana to Mo Chit yesterday. They knew it was sidewalk enforcement day in Asoke.

An emergency landing and a forced landing in the woods would be reported as a crash landing anywhere else I think. Three lives saved by the pilot and face by the reporting. Maybe the pilot knew the mechanic and said “I don’t care if you swear the engines fixed, you’re coming with us!”

We had a young Thai lad that works for me arrested for smoking an e-cig.
 
They tried to get a bribe off him but he didn't have the money. Number quoted was 60,000thb. 
 
They messaged a few of the staff to chip in and help him but eventually they detained him and it went to court anyway. 
 
We had to pay 14,000thb bail to secure his release and he is due in court in the near future.
 
Interesting to see the outcome of the case and whether it was worth paying the initial 'fee'.

Wow, thanks. That blows my idea its only harsh for foreigners theory.

I think it’s the selective enforcement of many things that are illegal in Thailand that gives people the idea its okay to break the laws until the get confronted with enforcement and find out the cost and that’s also not uniform it seems.
I see a lot of Thais e-cigarette smoking and they don’t look concerned or appear to be hiding. I doubt the police would ask them for ฿40,000 if they were caught as the French woman experienced.
Same with driving a motorbike with no helmet, ghost riding or using the sidewalk rather than a lengthy u-turn. You see enough Thais doing it without a problem and you start thinking it’s okay until the police see you, a foreigner doing these things and grab you.
Example today at Chaeng Wattana Immigration, the new no smoking ban is clearly labeled in the previous smoking area with dozens of signs yet everyone is sitting in the old smoking area smoking.

Doubt she goes first but if so and her parents are still with us they’d be the ones to get the land back they gave her. I don’t have a problem with that.

Tops has one “green checkout” line where I’m located. You bring your own bag or use there old school brown paper bag (which I was happy to see again). There’s no plastic bags in that lane.

I’m gonna play 182 any order in the lottery.

Maybe he got the job but can’t read so he just keeps the mail and cashed his pay check.

Yes we have one. Definitely worth a look and I'd not thought of them.

You’ll need to check every isle. Sections are well organized but no telling what section an odd item might be hiding in.

Try Mr Diy if one has come to your area as they have some interesting bits of handyman and crafts supplies.

The pickup drivers here still don't realise their vehicles weigh over 2 tons and takes twice the distance for braking compared to a normal sedan.

Some yes but most are shocked and not prepared for a situation where they can’t scare everybody out of the way by not yielding or slowing down. No fallback strategy when flashing lights and blowing the horn doesn’t clear the way.

Depends on how long you’re going to stay here you could drive without knowing your SA license is expired and not worry about an international license and likely pay a nominal fine if pulled over. Better if you’re long staying is just go to DLT and get a Thai license as it not too hard.

Maybe he should start his education with some physics courses.

Nothing sudden about 1and 2 stopping. 3 and 4 are total numpties.

https://www.nakhonchaiair.com/ncabooking/index.php?Language=EN

Nakhonchai Air
Decent company and in English
Wife books by phone, chooses seat locations and pays a reservation number at 7/11.

Check the baggage terms and ask about carry-on as well to be sure what you’ll pay all inclusive, round trip. If I remember correctly our tickets were inexpensive but didn’t include any stowed baggage which was an additional fee.

Not apparently, obviously. 

Lol,yes. Until then I didn’t know you could obviously be to close to something as pedestrian as a retaining wall and a sidewalk.