HappyExpat57

555! Seriously? Just about ANY of the little medical centers will sell you valium at a VERY reasonable rate. The same ones that will write you a prescription for just about anything you want. Even when Xanax was elevated in drug level of seriousness, all it did was bump up the price by 5 baht a pill.

If one doc won't, you just go up a block and will find one who will.

OK, so it will cost an additional 150 baht to get "Dr. Somchai" to write me a script. Jeezuz wept!

Quite a short-sighted perspective. Should Putin succeed in taking Ukraine, do you really think he'll just take his tanks and go home, or push even further?

Those documents are for Thai business needs. If you got one in English, most recipients would shake their heads and say, "Nope." I have to imagine there are smartphone apps that would do a rough translation for your own purposes.

Nope. Kept my house, put it in the hands of a property manager I trust, and it's been a gold mine ever since. Should the day come where I need to go back to the homeland for health reasons, I have it, debt free.

Let's not be too hasty. From what little isn't pixilated, she doesn't look half bad.

Seriously, I applaud the concept. I just REALLY don't trust the moron at the steering wheel on this nightmare coming down the pike!

Could you start putting numbers to which "on the wagon" trip you're taking? Inquiring minds wanna know.

Any that are within 3 or 4 hour's drive to Jomtien/Pattaya. That's where all my homeys reside and Pinup Agogo thrives.

Part of the problem is too many BiB's own many of these houses of ill repute.

This time they got serious:

I have been making coffee, sun tea, and cooking with tap water in Bangbon, Jomtien, Pattaya, Chanthaburi, etc. etc. since 2006. It's fine. For plain drinking water, I do use one of those "reverse osmosis" dispensers.

You need a beer or ten.

I would venture to say that represents the majority of people reading this right now.

Yes, no wife in the picture. This poor girl at the front desk was frightened by the aggressive behavior of the IO's. They were probably upset cuz I didn't snap to attention and come running at their call for me to heel. Eff them! I comply, and do my best to wear the "Thai smile" when dealing with them, but there are limits.

I thought you were going to write about getting an old man breast reduction.

If you admit there is a trust issue then dig a little to find the cause. You won't have to dig far, it's right there on the surface, EVERYONE is aware of it.

She said they asked her why I was in Chanthaburi. "No foreigner comes to retire in Chanthaburi!" they claimed. She was very distraught after the meeting with them. She told them I like to ride my bicycle which was true. Chanthaburi has some very beautiful riding trails. I have not been impressed with the lack of "customer service" attitude at Chanthaburi immigration. I've done one extension so far, and even though I brought in copies of my entire bank book for the 800k as well as the actual bank book itself, they demanded I get an annual statement from the bank. That was an additional unnecessary, annoying step and 100 baht. Never had that happen at Jomtien. I also have never been given any TM-30 paperwork to attach to passport though the front desk gal went to immigration to register me. Heavy sigh, if the women weren't so damned cute . . .

Didn't you recently post you had gone on the wagon? How long do you think THIS one will last?

I had three (!) Immigration Officers come visit my rented condo in Chanthaburi about two months ago. I wasn't home. I got a call from the gal at the front desk saying these arrogant <self deleted> demanded I return immediately. I told her to tell them I was half way to Jomtien and I wasn't about to turn back around on their say so. She told me later they grilled her for about 30 minutes. Thankfully, I had treated her very well, giving her free English lessons whenever I could, and she told them I was "very jai dee" (her words). I haven't heard from them since.

Really? Possible many other mind altering substances, but weed? If he had been a regular imbiber of the devil's lettuce, WW II would not have happened. "A new book proposes that Adolf Hitler’s campaign with the Third Reich was fueled by cocaine, heroin, morphine, and crystal meth, amongst a great many other drugs." https://volteface.me/did-hitler-get-high/

Yeah, another boondoggle. The school I worked at received a number of these useless tablets the first time they tried it. I KID YOU NOT - there was a picture reading exercise that showed a fat old foreigner at an ATM, and the point was for the student to enter the correct pin to receive money to give to a young Thai woman.

I've always done extensions by myself and they have always taken my picture right after I had all my paperwork approved.

I apologize for all the snarky comments. Too many people wished they were stand up comics and, for lack of ANY talent, missed that boat and wound up on this forum. There are many broke, desperate folks in the world (NOT just Thailand) who would jump on the opportunity to snatch a laptop. Even if you lock the software down, thieves can remove the hard drive, access all your files, then sell the hardware (drive, ram, etc.). Take it with you, don't let it out of your sight. Chances are you have too much sensitive info on that machine.