Your neighbors

[bapoboy]

So I was sitting on the balcony in the dark, and then neighbor came home driving he’s car after drinking, took he’s  beer can and poured beer over my dogs near the fence. what is wrong with some people? He didn’t see me, but I saw him. so have anyone of you ever experience some stupid behavior from your neighbors? 

 

[Gracas]

Why did you not say something to him ? Maybe, why are you pouring beer on my dogs.

[bapoboy]

Just now, Gracas said:

Why did you not say something to him ? Maybe, why are you pouring beer on my dogs.

Because I can’t speak thai and somchai doesn’t understand English, he have never been friendly, always angry looking face.

[MeePeeMai]

I would have barked out loudly at him.

[Kwasaki]

I like your dogs I like beer too. ????

[Bkkjimbo]

When we moved in we had a young Thai guy and he had a girlfriend and they liked to rehearse.

 

They were big music lovers. Occasionally loud but just music. Since they left a year ago, we have had 9 workers renting a 3 bed house.

 

They lasted a month.

 

Now we have a family in and the mother hen sneezes a lot.

 

I preferred the young music lovers.

 

Across the road we have a fat maniac son who we hear has been on the yaba and that is why he has weekly outbursts.

 

His outbursts centre around killing his family.

 

The family are just waiting for it to happen and no one really pays any attention to his threats.

 

 

 

[Golden Triangle]

I have a couple of right numpty neighbours, both westerners, unfortunately I can't say too much as they may be members on here and I don't really want to identify myself by describing their stupidity suffice to say that they are both idiots who have no respect for other people, they are noisy, inconsiderate and most of the time just plain ' major pain in the backside'.

 

I tolerate them because they are old and hopefully will die soon.   

[bapoboy]

33 minutes ago, MeePeeMai said:

I would have barked out loudly at him.

I barked loudly to my dogs and told them to come inside haha! a big problem is if your neighbors or someone in your neighborhood doesn’t like you or your dogs, they will poison your dogs, this happen regularly. What it’s strange about this neighborhood is that my neighbors on the opposite site actually talked to me the first day I moved in 3 months ago and always give me a smile and talk to me,but the neighbors on the the the right that poured the beer on them have always had the angry face even when I have given them a smile and said hello.

 

Most Thais are nice and good people, but then you have the drunken somchai that always get upset easily.

[RobMuir]

42 minutes ago, bapoboy said:

Because I can’t speak thai and somchai doesn’t understand English, he have never been friendly, always angry looking face.

Why can’t you speak thai?

 

It must make your life very difficult here, like in situations such as when the locals are giving your dogs a free beer.

 

Do yourself a favor and learn the language. Otherwise you are just an illiterate, deaf mute and will be treated by the locals as such.

 

[bapoboy]

26 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

I have a couple of right numpty neighbours, both westerners, unfortunately I can't say too much as they may be members on here and I don't really want to identify myself by describing their stupidity suffice to say that they are both idiots who have no respect for other people, they are noisy, inconsiderate and most of the time just plain ' major pain in the backside'.

 

I tolerate them because they are old and hopefully will die soon.   

I can remember the day that I was driving arround hunting for a house to rent In the San Sai area Chiang Mai and I drove into a village and ended up in a blind way by a mistake and the last house there was definitely owned by a foreigner, I saw him he say me I had to take a u-turn to get out of that village , 10 minutes later he was driving he’s white suv with bling bling rims, followed me to the next village I was going to look for a place to rent he stopped near by me looked at me and then drove away, he might have something to hide if he’s that paranoid.

[bapoboy]

3 minutes ago, RobMuir said:

Why can’t you speak thai?

 

It must make your life very difficult here, like in situations such as when the locals are giving your dogs a free beer.

 

Do yourself a favor and learn the language. Otherwise you are just an illiterate, deaf mute and will be treated by the locals as such.

 

I can speak basic thai, but I do understand much more then I can speak. I will say I’m better at numbers then words. Next month I will go to learn some more Thai, i signed up for a course last week because as you said it’s necessary.

 

i will say I have been lazy, but at least I will start soon when the class level 1 starts.

[bapoboy]

2 minutes ago, bapoboy said:

I can speak basic thai, but I do understand much more then I can speak. I will say I’m better at numbers then words. Next month I will go to learn some more Thai, i signed up for a course last week because as you said it’s necessary.

 

i will say I have been lazy, but at least I will start soon when the class level 1 starts.

The teacher took up some pages of the Thai alphabet and told me, let’s start to learn the alphabet first,

i must say she was out of her by doing that, but again it might be the best way to learn thai or the worst.

 

16 hours a week for 4 months first, but told me to do as many hours as I wanted, but that to much.. 6 hours da day, no thank you.

[RobMuir]

3 minutes ago, bapoboy said:

I can speak basic thai, but I do understand much more then I can speak. I will say I’m better at numbers then words. Next month I will go to learn some more Thai, i signed up for a course last week because as you said it’s necessary.

 

i will say I have been lazy, but at least I will start soon when the class level 1 starts.

That is the complete opposite to me. I can speak and read much better than I can understand people talking.

 

Which makes Thais I speak with think I can understand well so they speak too fast for my brain to keep up. 

 

Plus they use a lot of slang and shorten many words. Also depends on the person, some I can understand fairly well and others I can hardly understand.

I can keep up listening with thai soapies, but not the news.

[RobMuir]

7 minutes ago, bapoboy said:

The teacher took up some pages of the Thai alphabet and told me, let’s start to learn the alphabet first,

definitely you need to learn the thai alphabet first.

 

7 minutes ago, bapoboy said:

 

16 hours a week for 4 months first, but told me to do as many hours as I wanted, but that to much.. 6 hours da day, no thank you.

I think you may need a maths tutor as well.

16 divided by 7 or even 5 doesn’t equal 6

[bapoboy]

7 minutes ago, RobMuir said:

definitely you need to learn the thai alphabet first.

 

I think you may need a maths tutor as well.

16 divided by 7 or even 5 doesn’t equal 6

I meant that I will do 16 hours a week,    But she told me I can do as many hours as I wanted, but I won’t be doing 6 hours a day. The schedules are 10-12, 13-15, 15-17.

 

if I did 6 hours a day 5 times a week that will be 30 hours, to much for me.

[Puchaiyank]

I discovered my neighbor, Thai, was bringing his dog into my yard to do his business...lock gate now...neighbor is on my sxxt list!

[steven100]

8 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

 idiots who have no respect for other people, they are noisy, inconsiderate and most of the time just plain ' major pain in the backside'.

That describes 90% of farang here .....

[BritManToo]

9 hours ago, bapoboy said:

I can speak basic thai, but I do understand much more then I can speak. I will say I’m better at numbers then words. Next month I will go to learn some more Thai, i signed up for a course last week because as you said it’s necessary.

 

i will say I have been lazy, but at least I will start soon when the class level 1 starts.

Chances of your neighbours chatting in central Thai is close to zero.

[Khaeng Mak]

Nowadays I take great care to ensure I don't have neighbors.

[Spidey]

I had a neighbour next door who was a relatively young alcoholic. When his wife went to work, he would open his car doors, put the stereo on full blast, sit next to the car, drink his beer and fall asleep. The blaring music sometimes went on for hours. My wife had a word with his wife, to no avail so the next time that it happened I pointed my hosepipe over the party wall, filled his car with water and drenched him until he woke up. He didn't say a word, switched his car stereo off and went inside. There were no repeats of the incident. 

[BritManToo]

32 minutes ago, Khaeng Mak said:

Nowadays I take great care to ensure I don't have neighbors.

My neighbours are all really nice, no noise, I smile and wave as I walk by, they smile and wave back.

Sometimes the little old ladies/men leave gifts of fruit or food at my back door.

The kids all play nicely in the road together, whichever parent is out there sorts out any problems.

It's a proper community like we used to have in the UK prior to the 1960s.

 

The only noise is from birds tweeting loudly in the garden (and my bread machine going).

I'm sitting in front of the TV, doors and windows wide open as usual, gf went to market on her bicycle, son upstairs on Youtube. The lady next door just waved at me outside the window and walked away with my bicycle pump to use on her tires.

 

If it wasn't for all the immigration BS, life here would be perfect.

Edited April 30, 2019 by BritManToo

[Khaeng Mak]

7 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

My neighbours are all really nice, no noise, I smile and wave as I walk by, they smile and wave back.

Sometimes the little old ladies/men leave gifts of fruit or food at my back door.

The kids all play nicely in the road together, whichever parent is out there sorts out any problems.

It's a proper community like we used to have in the UK prior to the 1960s.

 

The only noise is from birds tweeting loudly in the garden (and my bread machine going).

I'm sitting in front of the TV, doors and windows wide open as usual, gf went to market on her bicycle, son upstairs on Youtube. The lady next door just waved at me outside the window and walked away with my bicycle pump to use on her tires.

 

If it wasn't for all the immigration BS, life here would be perfect.

Good neighbors are a joy. But bad neighbors are more commonplace.

 

Like Thoreau, I am a big fan of solitude:

 

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

Edited April 30, 2019 by Khaeng Mak

[Spidey]

2 minutes ago, Spidey said:

I had a neighbour next door who was a relatively young alcoholic. When his wife went to work, he would open his car doors, put the stereo on full blast, sit next to the car, drink his beer and fall asleep. The blaring music sometimes went on for hours. My wife had a word with his wife, to no avail so the next time that it happened I pointed my hosepipe over the party wall, filled his car with water and drenched him until he woke up. He didn't say a word, switched his car stereo off and went inside. There were no repeats of the incident. 

The family on the other side of me had 2 sons and a daughter who all worked for Mitsubishi. The sons would do "foreigners" on peoples cars in their spare time. I went out one Sunday morning to go to the temple with my wife and found a pickup blocking my drive. I asked them to move it so that I could get my car off the drive. They just pointed to the pickup's engine which was on the floor. I motioned to them to push the car. No response so I completely lost it and screamed blue murder at them, throwing in plenty of "F"s and "C"s. They got the message and pushed the car out of the way.

 

The final straw came when they were using a "windy gun" on a customer's car at midnight. The noise was horrendous. I asked them to stop as the noise was keeping my son awake. I just got "Finish soon" and they carried on. I went to the kitchen, got a large knife and slashed the line of the air gun. They taped up the line and carried on. We decided to move house.

 

Generally liked my time living in a Thai area and made several Thai friends but their complete inability to comprehend the effects of their actions on others eventually proved too much for me.

 

 

[Khaeng Mak]

9 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

My neighbours are all really nice, no noise, I smile and wave as I walk by, they smile and wave back.

Sometimes the little old ladies/men leave gifts of fruit or food at my back door.

The kids all play nicely in the road together, whichever parent is out there sorts out any problems.

It's a proper community like we used to have in the UK prior to the 1960s.

 

The only noise is from birds tweeting loudly in the garden (and my bread machine going).

I'm sitting in front of the TV, doors and windows wide open as usual, gf went to market on her bicycle, son upstairs on Youtube. The lady next door just waved at me outside the window and walked away with my bicycle pump to use on her tires.

 

If it wasn't for all the immigration BS, life here would be perfect.

Nice that they leave you gifts of fruit or food when they are only one paycheck away from house repossession. 

[Spidey]

8 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

My neighbours are all really nice, no noise, I smile and wave as I walk by, they smile and wave back.

Sometimes the little old ladies/men leave gifts of fruit or food at my back door.

The kids all play nicely in the road together, whichever parent is out there sorts out any problems.

It's a proper community like we used to have in the UK prior to the 1960s.

 

The only noise is from birds tweeting loudly in the garden (and my bread machine going).

I'm sitting in front of the TV, doors and windows wide open as usual, gf went to market on her bicycle, son upstairs on Youtube. The lady next door just waved at me outside the window and walked away with my bicycle pump to use on her tires.

 

If it wasn't for all the immigration BS, life here would be perfect.

Exactly the same for me, I actually love it when a neighbour wanders into my garden, picks a couple of papaya off the tree and wanders off without speaking. My wife has just harvested a large bunch of bananas. A third we will keep. A third will be given to family and friends and a third will be given to our neighbours. It's always reciprocated twofold. A real community. Days of yore in the UK.

 

The only difference for me is that I've never had a problem with Immigration. The IO in Pattaya is sweet.

[BritManToo]

7 minutes ago, Khaeng Mak said:

Nice that they leave you gifts of fruit or food when they are only one paycheck away from house repossession. 

Sharing food is commonplace in Thailand, everyone does it, including my gf.

You grow or cook more than you can use, share it out amongst the neighbours.

I seem to have the only bicycle tire pump in the road, everyone helps themselves to it.

It all evens out in the long run.

Edited April 30, 2019 by BritManToo

[essox essox]

11 hours ago, Gracas said:

Why did you not say something to him ? Maybe, why are you pouring beer on my dogs.

which language would the person use Thai or English??

[essox essox]

34 minutes ago, Spidey said:

I had a neighbour next door who was a relatively young alcoholic. When his wife went to work, he would open his car doors, put the stereo on full blast, sit next to the car, drink his beer and fall asleep. The blaring music sometimes went on for hours. My wife had a word with his wife, to no avail so the next time that it happened I pointed my hosepipe over the party wall, filled his car with water and drenched him until he woke up. He didn't say a word, switched his car stereo off and went inside. There were no repeats of the incident. 

nice one......

 

[BritManToo]

1 minute ago, essox essox said:

which language would the person use Thai or English??

I'd have used Laos (Issan), it's what most locals use.

[essox essox]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

I'd have used Laos (Issan), it's what most locals use.

good idea if one lives in Issan  no good using FRENCH is it???