NanLaew

...Thailand!

Far more simply, it could be that some members are confused by your grammatical impropriety and linguistic inelegance. When you say "other posters", you're talking about yourself aren't you?

So the local police got a 999 (emergency) call and did nothing? There's another, recent and very sad story from the UK where a 2-year-old boy was discovered dead, curled up at the legs of his 60-year-old father who had apparently collapsed and died from a heart attack some two days earlier. The couple were last seen waving to a neighbour on Boxing Day, 27 December. When a social worker got no response at the door for a scheduled visit on 2 January, she notified the police. When she made a subsequent no-response visit on 4 January, she notified the police again. It was only on 9th January, when the social worker had contacted the landlord and gained entry, was the New Year tragedy discovered.

Rain roof gutter or roof rain gutter? One needs to be precise (twice) here.

You still have to show your passport to do transactions. No you don't.... I have accounts with SCB, Bangkok Bank and Kasikorn. The Pink ID and Yellow House book were used (registered) upon opening the account (passport too). I have been able to make transactions in all three of those account (i.e. withdrawing money, obtaining statement letters) by presenting my Pink ID along with the Bank Book. Why the penchant for some members to portray their unique bureacratic experiences as somehow empirical and suggest that another member's view based on their individual experience isn't true? I have a pink ID card issued in Udon Thani. It's the older one that does have the wording on the back that says it's only valid for ID in the province where it was issued. When I was asked for proof of ID for a counter transaction at the branch of Bangkok Bank in Pattaya where my account was opened several years earlier, and before I obtained the Isaan pink ID card, it was declined. They insisted on either my passport or, if I had a valid one, my Thai driving license. Now, to inform those who may think that having their pink ID card number on the Thai DL is a good idea and more convenient. One person I know who did this at the DLT in Udon Thani several years ago has the additional annotation in Thai on the back of his Thai DL stating the DL is only valid in Udon Thani province, same as stated on the back of his pink ID card. Another chap who was issued a pink ID card very recently, went for his Thai DL renewal using his pink ID card and his Thai DL does not have the provincial limitation as the other guys. I sincerely hope this helps.

Did a quick search on the internet and CNN, ABC and about a dozen US national and regional news wires carry this story, including the latest on the suspect shooting himself dead after being confronted by law enforcement in Texas. It's not a mass shooting in a school, or mall, or crowded public place. The guy shot someone he possibly didn't know, then took out his family and other relatives in two homes before eventually taking his own life.

Bells is a much more amenable fire water than JW Red will ever be, and not just because the latter is overpriced, overhyped rubbish either.

Nongbua Lamphu. Then, when one gets a wild hair up one's ass, a forty-minute drive 'over the mountain' and dip your wick in Udon Thani. There's a tidy little farang ghetto half-way between the above called Nong Wua So that may float one's boat. It's really, really nice up here. Another 40 minutes north of Udon and you're in Laos.

About half-way between the middle and the bottom end.

The booking and ticketing websites of the airlines I fly with (and I fly regularly with five airlines and only 2 of them are Thai airlines) all ask for the passenger's middle name. Accordingly, all my tickets and boarding passes have my full handle: Theodore Angus Hieronymous Cholmondley-Harrington Jr. You can call me Teddy.

Total rip-off. I used to love the full English breakfast there but then they started this scam of selling each item seperate. It doubled the price of the same breakfast I had before Although I don't recall the price exactly, I found Robin Hood a tad underwhelming on their DIY "full English" offering. The waitress had great legs though.

You ask for good food And then suggests Fray Bentos pies are on his shopping list? OP, is this a Doylem Geordie thing?

Not from January 16th https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Travel-Leisure/Thailand-starts-checking-foreigners-passports-on-domestic-flights This from CAAT with the agreed effective date. The pink ID card is described as a Non-Thai ID card, the very same thing we are talking about here.

Pink ID cards or as the authorities clumsily label them, "non-Thai ID cards", along with the Thai DL, are still on the approved list of acceptable alternative forms of personal ID fopr domestic air travel.

The district office WHERE?

Channeling Britain's legendary Christmas pantomime tradition. "Oh yes it is!"

Parking in front of someone else's bar? I once did that in Pattayland 1 way back around 1984. I still have the scars to prove it. That was well before the Russians too.

And without stating which Amphur you were unlucky at, how does the OP benefit from your experience?

Start here https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/overseas/information/thailand/renew/adult and also here https://visa.vfsglobal.com/tha/en/gbr/hmpo

When I took our son with us to Vientiane, we went as a family and there were no issues with immigration, just mum with her ID card and our boy's birth certificate. They didn't check or want to know if I was the father. At Thai airports, if the child isn't with their legally recognised parent (in Thailand, the default is the birth mother), the airline needs to see written approval for the kid to fly and that's just on domestic flights. When we flew with the wife's young nephew from BKK, his birth certificate wasn't enough, and we were directed by check-in staff to the RTP station on the arrivals floor where a policeman called the kids father (estranged from the birth mother) and received verbal assurance along with a picture of his ID card, that it was OK for the kid to travel with his Aunt. The cops issued a signed, stamped form which was presented to check-in staff to get the kids boarding pass.

Ah yes, the heady days of being a 13 year-old. You know that smoking stunts your growth, no?

I haven't visited Pattaya in a while, but I hear The Sportsman on Soi 13 still gets regular good words. Siamburi's is probably the best bet for your tinned stuff as well as fresh-made and perishables. If you live in Isaan, there are several 'importers' of what you seek in the region who have an online presence and are happy to send stuff overnight by bus. I used to do the 'freezer run' from Udon Thani to Pattaya and back maybe 2 or 3 times a year but haven't needed to do that for maybe five years already. Everything is available in town or, if you seek a particular pie or sausage, overnight by bus. If you're over in Loei, Udon makes for a decent day-trip (stopping overnight optional but recommended).

UPPER CASE is shouting. Bold isn't, and it's handy for the optically challenged (like me).

The OP is in that bit of Isaan that's close and yet too far for economical air travel. In my opinion, with @Denim's excellent AP Tower 1-month room rental with the 'free' parking option, any discussion of the cost of DMK on-site parking or domestic air travel cost and/or inconvenience is a moot point. The OP dismissively says "but not needing the room for more than a night makes the whole process of arrive, check in and out almost as bad as the connecting flight process". Why this fixation on the unwanted room and the blind desire to self-drive and park off-airport? The OP appears to be fixated on the notion that there's cheap and secure off-airport car parking near Bangkok's older airport. We're not in Kansas here. It does not exist. @Denim isn't saying the OP needs a room either, @Denim didn't need the room himself for a month either. He's offering a very cost-effective way of providing 1-month of comparatively cheap and secure car parking. It's only around 115 baht/day. The "inconvenience" the OP is stressing about here is addressed by leaving home maybe 1-hour earlier, using Google maps to navigate to the lodging, park up, check-in and then book a GRAB ride to the airport. That, in my mind, is infinitely more practical. Good luck anyway and have a safe trip however you manage it.

Are you sure John was right? It doesn't say anything like that in any 'Lonely Planet' guide I've read.