You Know You've Been In Thailand Too Long When...

[cdnvic]

On a scorching hot, humid day you yearn for a nice cold bag of coca cola.

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[cdnvic]

It's the middle of the night, you hear a dog bark, and you think "Pee?"

It's the middle of the night, you feel the Changs coming back to haunt you and you think "Pee!"

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[Jai Dee]

When you drive along a deserted country road in the middle of the night, you pass a group of spirit houses and beep your horn three times....

Yes

Me too!

[Neeranam]

It's the middle of the night, you hear a dog bark, and you think "Pee?" 

Yep, and you know all the different types of ghost.

[Jai Dee]

When you lower your head and upper body as you squeeze through a group of people...

[aletta]

You stop moaning about the the state of the Thai education system.

[lampard10]

You get a bigger andrelin surge at the Departures at Don Muang than at Arrivals

[Neeranam]

You get a bigger andrelin surge at the Departures at Don Muang than at Arrivals

Good one, and true for me!

[Toolz]

You don't think it's odd how when any special dinner is being prepared they'll cook a whole plate of fried eggs before they start preparing anything else and just leave them standing there for hours and hours.

Second will be the fruit. It'll all be cut up and left exposed.

Then the fried crispy things. Left to go cold and collect moisture.

French fries will be cooked in bunches of six with chopsticks and a bunch of girls will crowd round eating them as they go along. When everything is finally ready the girls complain "im laeo...".

[Gazza]

Your also an expert at tying bags of food up with elastic bands, and look just as proffesional as the woman at the 'Gi yung' shop!

When you're an expert at solving rubber-band tying methods and can actually unravel them to get the food out the plastic bag.

[lampard10]

When you don't bat an eyelid when the starters come an hour after the meals finished.

[Sir Burr]

When you go back to your home country for a visit and "needing" to eat rice with your meal at least once a day.

When you can drink Tabasco sauce neat and not find it hot.

[bannork]

1. When you're 5 yards from a footbridge but you decide to cross at ground level a 4 lane road with buses, trucks and cars hurtling along;standing between lanes you clutch your friend's arm, breathing in, trying to maintain as thin a profile as possible.When you see an eventual break in the traffic you scramble forwards,laughing, sometimes with arm outstretched to the oncoming juggernauts, as in King Canute commanding the tide to cease.

2. It's raining and you're a respectable lady working in an office, you're wearing an attractive matching outfit of jacket and skirt with high heels. So how do you keep your head dry?

Easy, put a plastic bag upside down on your head, pulling the handles over your earlobes. So fetching.

bannork.

[Gazza]

Easy, put a plastic bag upside down on your head, pulling the handles over your earlobes. So fetching.

bannork.

Or they'll use a piece of paper the size of a bus ticket.

[Neeranam]

Or they'll use a piece of paper the size of a bus ticket.

It is for a very good reason. Even partially covering the head could prevent getting a cold.

[Pepe']

I don't live in BKK but when there I do many of these things.

What does it mean?...

[khunlungphudhu]

I don't live in BKK but when there I do many  of these things.

What does it mean?...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

ํ๊ี๊U come here tooooo mutt!!!!

[RDN]

....When you're an expert at solving rubber-band tying methods and can actually unravel them to get the food out the plastic bag.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm nearly there...

When your knees have re-grown hair that hasn't been there since childhood and short trousers...

[Shola]

When you don't bat an eyelid when the starters come an hour after the meals finished.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You don't bother complaining anymore when 2 of you order food together and one meal comes 1/2 an hour later than the other.

[RDN]

When it's 97 Fahrenheit, 80% humidity, no wind and you think "Hmm, a little warm today..."

[khunlungphudhu]

When you pull on a wooly hat and a cardie in the morning!

[lampard10]

When you wake up in the morning and 'Log on to Thai Visa' is number one on the 'list of things to do today'

I guess that's me

Edited March 2, 2005 by lampard10

[warriors]

when you YAR KIT MAKK = do not think to much

[thedude]

When watching football on telly, and someone shoots and misses the goal, you go "O-ho" in unison with the Thai commentator.

[superchav]

When watching football on telly, and someone shoots and misses the goal, you go "O-ho" in unison with the Thai commentator.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Haven't you got a bi-lingual telly ? Its a lot better to listen to English commentators.

[stevehaigh]

when you know all the words to "Om Pra Ma Poot"

when you instictively know not to stand under a coconut tree.

and it's been said before, but when you drive your honda dream to the other side of the street.

[toastwars]

When watching football on telly, and someone shoots and misses the goal, you go "O-ho" in unison with the Thai commentator.

Haven't you got a bi-lingual telly ? Its a lot better to listen to English commentators.

erm...it is but you know when you've been in Thailand to long when....blah blah...kind of the point of the thread...I don't trust those bi lingual tellys anyway, I am always afraid I will find it in bed with the toaster and the radio

[Lars]

Yeah,he did miss the goal with about 1000 miles or so....

[Gazza]

I don't trust those bi lingual tellys anyway, I am always afraid I will find it in bed with the toaster and the radio

I caught my bi-TV in bed with the toaster one time. Now they've got a little baby toaster with 'pop-up' ads.

[bergerac]

When you take a piss at the bottom of your garden in full view of everyone because you think it is dirty to use the perfectly clean farang toilet inside the house.