bunnydrops

You will find another way to beat it????

Many years ago, I brought my VW in to have the clutch adjusted at a dealership in Seattle. I usually did it myself since it was so easy. There is a large wingnut that you turn to tighten but it was frozen and I couldn't get it to turn so I brought it in. They came to me and told me I needed a new clutch. I started to drive it home and the thing could hardly move. I crawled under the car and saw they had turned the nut out, I turned it back in and the clutch was fine. I went in and with other customers there told them exactly what they did and they were crooks and left.

You didn't notice the scratches before you gave it to the new mechanic. There is the chance the new mech did the damage. Wrong cover put on at the dealership.

Another "what if". If you are on (US) SS and a pension, but don't make enough to pay taxes after your standard deduction, can Thailand tax the full amount made? To be clearer, you have to make over $27,700 if married before you are taxed on any amount above that. Can Thailand tax you on the $27700?

Maybe, but the price for extras like use of overhead compartment, seat-belts, and bathroom use will go way up.

I'm 76. No one else in my family made to over 70. brother and sister included. I still do construction work and work on roofs. You can always be one of the lucky ones if you take care of yourself.

negotiation, that is the name of the game at most businesses other than the big box stores. If you have to ask the price get a Thai to ask, they are used to it. My Thai wife is not so good at it, her sister is a master. Getting a price in public? Not done, different price for different people depending on how well you negotiate, if they need the work that day, or if they really don't want to do it for you in particular.

Thats the best you can do? You should have been here when I first posted it.????

I posted this a couple of years ago thinking there must be a rational explanation. big mistake???? One night I got up around 2 in the morning and happen to look out the window. I saw a light moving across the sky. At first I thought it must be a satellite, not flashing and bright. But the next moment, it came straight down and landed in the field about 100 meters away and sat there for about 30 seconds and then took off and moved out of my view. From the distance where it landed, my guess would be it was about the size of a golf ball, or no bigger than a tennis ball. One local said he had seen the same thing before.

Wise is giving 4.33% interest at this time on US dollar accounts with the Wise debit card. But I think at this time only those with a US address. Only clearing up the "Wise is not a bank" statement above. No, they are not a bank, but you are given the option to make interest. The money is put into a US bank.Wise may be taking a bit of interest from the bank.

He could live like a king on just the interest he could get on that kind of money. As for making the jump to live in an other country. Some of us have deep roots and some are at home where they hang their hat. " Life is what happens while making other plans."

Happen to me once. I was sitting at the counter in a busy restaurant drinking coffee. The guy eating breakfast, next to me started up a conversation. When he finished he took my tab and said he would buy my coffee. You see where this is going. I saw him go up to the cashier, talk to her, she looked over to where I was sitting. I ended up paying for his breakfast????

I don't know if I should post this. On a ticket I bought ( with wife being the other passenger) to fly to the states and back last year, I ran into the pay extra to sit together fee. I am 76 and my wife is 56. Every time I booked my seat first in the non fee seats, it would blank out any seat next to me, even what was other non fee seats. But when I booked a seat for my wife first, I was able to book an aisle. A glitch? I don't know, but it worked on two legs of the trip. In the States I see they are charging extra to use the overhead and you have to pay extra for the second bag on international flights. They should just raise the price of the ticket and let us pick our seats and be able to bring two bags instead of all these games.

I don't think anyone really knows at this time. Waiting for clarity.

Megachef and Shrimp Brand have a lighter smell, I don't like Squid Brand.Too strong a smell, to me makes everything it is cooked in taste like fish sauce just because of the smell.

You must have missed something. The purpose box has always come up for me. I just sent yesterday. I think if I did not get the box I would end transfer and start again.

Last time (and the time before) in Korat, we only brought in one copy of each. Then after signing, the stack was then copied at our expense. Saved a bit of signing fatigue.

That is the oddest thing I ever heard. I have never had them even ask to come in the house. Were your witness's already in the house when they came, and you invited them in? Did they take any other photos in the house? Taking the photo from outside makes me wonder if they were not supposed to be in there.

You have the check mailed to you here in Thailand?

Yeah, I thought of him also????

Eight years ago the Bangkok Bank in New York was doing the transfers. You had an account with that bank that the SS check went into. They no longer do that. I don't know how SS checks are handled. I had to change to having my check sent to my US bank and transferring two or three times a year through Wise.

The reason. The marriage visa is for couples that are living together. I know of one now and one in the past that no longer live together and the one in the past was even living with another woman. The one I know of now lives about 100km away. They get together for his extension and when Imm calls and makes the appointment drives to her house. It has become harder for him due to the fact Imm now (this year is the first time this was required of me) requires the village head to be a witness, and he won't put his head in a noose.

Show me!

Stay away from all those security cameras then! Even when they wanted that picture sitting on the bed many years ago, THEY didn't take it.

I have had at least 5 home visits, mostly due to having to get new visas. Never have they asked for money. The pictures they have taken have been of witness's signing confirmations that I live there and one of my wife and I with the lead officer in front of our address (I think that one is more to show that they were really there and did their job). Also they never came into the house.