jaywalker

I took my buddy to Koh Chang 20+ years ago, from Pattaya (he was visiting from the US with his half Thai wife). Not a matter of "IF" it was a matter of "WHEN" I would get pulled over by some suicidal BIB walking out in front of my truck. Sure enough, an hour into it, I get pulled over. To this day I have no idea what my offense was. I asked my wife and she said, "Just, give him some money!". ???? 200 baht and I was off again.

I grabbed a cab 21 years ago on Sukh. Soi 21 to Lat Prao. My wife was hammered (I'd just met her & she was tring to keep up with me). All 99 lbs of her. I thought "She's going to yak her guts out soon", so I popped into a late night pharmacy just to have a plastic bag. Poor taxi driver was going nuts till he figured out she had a barf bag. SPY....she won't touch them things a couple decades later. ???? PS....I went shopping the next day & brought home an ice cold SPY. That's a true Led Zepplin fellas. What a champ she is. She saw it and started wretching.????

But things move along at the speed of Greenland glacier when the government becomes involved.

I recall 1999. Prince was still alive ???? Meter drop was 35 baht. It should be 200 baht by now. I have driven a taxi, and it ain't no way to get rich, plus most of them are driving a stick shift....I have done that in Krung Thep in my own POV. Not fun. The guys are working 14 hours a day. Cut 'em some slack & tip them well.

Wow, sorry to read this. Mostly they die from smoke before the fire gets them. I hope that's the case here. He went to sleep & never woke up. It happened to my elderly neighbor 25 years ago.

Look up & look down too. I had friend step into a storm drain during a torrential downpour. I had to help him out, as he was about to be deposited somewhere in the Bight of Bangkok.

I sideswiped a cement pole in Surin many years ago. Budget rent a car. 5,000 baht deductible.....Gimme a new truck. Told them I swerved to miss a cow in the road....had to draw a diagram of how it happened. Hemingway would have been proud of that yarn I spun.

Reminds me of walking into a restaurant on an RTA base near Chanthaburi once. They had a fan running without a shroud and I just slowly gravitated over to it with my hand out like I was mesmerized. I was surprised as a couple of my Thai co-workers and the lady owner all started yelling "MAI CHAI, MAI CHAI!!!". ???? ????????

Awww, c'mon. His brakes failed too I'm sure.

Brakes failed?

Because China is in North East Asia and this is about South East Asia???

4 vaccinations, double & triple masking, shut down the world....and we still have COVID. ANYBODY saying that ANYBODY did a good job with all that nonsense is denying reality.

See the mayhem that happens once mask/muzzle mandates are relaxed?