just went down the 7-11 to get some ice, smokes and vodka...no probs with the ice and the smokes but couldn't buy the vodka as it was 0830 in the am and then I shouted 'goddammit!'...I normally buy the voddy from a chinese guy down the market where I live at any time of day before he closes at 5pm...

the shop girl was annoyed and I tried to apologize to say that it wasn't her fault but she ran off and there was a hi-so woman regarding me with distain and I wanted to get into her face to say 'WTFs it to you...?'

a total disaster and I stumbled back across the road back to the hotel feeling like a fool...I'm just a country boy and the big city sometimes is hard to handle...and I still had enough voddy for 3 more drinks and had some nice grapefruit juice as well...

The rule of law is hard enough to take in a civilised place....never mind in Bangkok. That said tutsi....where you are heading I can grasp the need for one last hurrah.

Vodka though? World's worst hangover that is...

What are you doin' tutsi? Ya got the definitive guide to Bangkok's Mexican restaurants to write and yer pissed at 9am?

Just goes to show how little I know about the proper approach to eating I guess!

Hotel? Call room service perhaps or ask the bell boy to run out and get you a bottle; they will have a way if you need it that badly.

When you find out where Tutsi is heading, you'll understand why he's on the vodka at 8.30 in the morning

actually, saudi ain't bad as an assignment there helps one to clean up, exercise and become healthy and I'm looking forward to it...and I can usually control my type 2 diabetes with exercise and diet alone...and no medication...plus we ain't got no money...

but I had a mild stroke last year and now hypertension is a problem and also hoping that the project management is good cause I can't take any BS anymore, too stressful...I shoulda quit before I got sick last year but I really like Vietnam and had lotsa friends; every woman at the hotel and restaurant turned out when I left and a couple were in tears and I never had sex with any of them, I was just a nice guy...back in Thailand the nieces helped me to get well...

The woman in your face? The hi-so thing here is a total veneer. Yes, there are genuine hi-sos, but they would figure into about a fraction of a percent of the Thai population. I'll wager this one was another of the (greater percentage) of wannabee hi-sos - which probably come in at about 10% of the Thai population. You know the ones - the gold-dripping yak-yakkers who are forever asking all and sundry about other women ('What does her husband do?/What does she own?/What does she drive') and regale others with stories about how much they spend every month (but will fight tooth and nail for a twenty-five satang discount). There are so many Thai women who seem to be socially insecure. I think it probably stems from youthful days in impoverished environs.

They think that if they're baht millionaires (yep, tuppence in our language), they are above everyone else (farang included). It really is so pathetic. The trouble is, when they have farang husbands, their tendency towards this attitude sometimes rubs off on hubby. I've seen farang blokes adopt something towards this attitude, only to totally switch direction when they realise that (a.) you don't give a toss, (b.) you disdain people who behave in this offensive and antisocial manner and (c.) the more hi-so people happen to be in fact, the less likely they are to be arrogant as to that fact. So next time you encounter someone who displays this attitude, Tutsi, merely sneer back at them (they just love that)...

E: Had to edit my dot points - they were coding in smilies.

The woman in your face? The hi-so thing here is a total veneer. Yes, there are genuine hi-sos, but they would figure into about a fraction of a percent of the Thai population. I'll wager this one was another of the (greater percentage) of wannabee hi-sos - which probably come in at about 10% of the Thai population. You know the ones - the gold-dripping yak-yakkers who are forever asking all and sundry about other women ('What does her husband do?/What does she own?/What does she drive') and regale others with stories about how much they spend every month (but will fight tooth and nail for a twenty-five satang discount). There are so many Thai women who seem to be socially insecure. I think it probably stems from youthful days in impoverished environs.

They think that if they're baht millionaires (yep, tuppence in our language), they are above everyone else (farang included). It really is so pathetic. The trouble is, when they have farang husbands, their tendency towards this attitude sometimes rubs off on hubby. I've seen farang blokes adopt something towards this attitude, only to totally switch direction when they realise that (a.) you don't give a toss, (b.) you disdain people who behave in this offensive and antisocial manner and (c.) the more hi-so people happen to be in fact, the less likely they are to be arrogant as to that fact. So next time you encounter someone who displays this attitude, Tutsi, merely sneer back at them (they just love that)...

well...I have a problem with sneering unless they get uppity and unpleasant plus I became distressed when I saw the shop girl become upset...if I lived in BKK I wouldn't give a toss but I'm just a bumpkin and a nice guy; little school kids that I don't know give me a 'hello tutsi!' and a wave so it's easy to become complacent...

At least you have the soul and self awareness to realize that your behaviour upset the young lady, and it's annoyed you. There are too many boorish people who go through life with not a thought to the feelings of others they encounter.

Tutsi, you are a gentleman.

At least you have the soul and self awareness to realize that your behaviour upset the young lady, and it's annoyed you. There are too many boorish people who go through life with not a thought to the feelings of others they encounter.

Tutsi, you are a gentleman.

thanks, blether...I'm from California where the concept of 'gentlemaness' is unknown; yer either 'cool' or not and this has a large influence on cultural UK/US misunderstanding...I shouldn't have been bothered by the 11am alcohol restriction as would befit a true gentleman but my rural yobbery took over and I shouted in dismay...

a bar woman server in Derby once referred to me as a 'gentleman' and I was confused but I was chuffed...I'm just a surfer from a northern LA suburb...(I didn't know her name but I always thought of her as 'kitten' as she was very feline and someone that you would want to cuddle up with...but she had a 300lb violent boyfriend and etc.)

If they're in a 7-11 they aren't hi-sos.

If they're in a 7-11 they aren't hi-sos.

dam_n....I was sure I was hi-so as well.....my weakness for bottles of water has condemned me to the sewer (where some will no doubt say I belong).

I doth protest sir!

dam_n...

Oh no! its another of those words!

Calm down....its Bedlam...don't hyperventilate....you're Scottish....ya don't understand that's all.....

Oh d_ear...

Oh d_ear...

I admire your fea_rless approach...

Edit: Two in one post is more than my filter can cope with.

If they're in a 7-11 they aren't hi-sos.

yeah...it coulda been a ladyboy limo driver in drag expressing disgust at a falang's misbehavior...and I shoulda gone out to the parking lot to go after the real perp...(SMASH with glass everywhere and then with the real hi-sos: 'and exactly what are you trying to achieve? mr falang in a panama hat at 0830 in the morning?' ' I WANT WESTERN COWBOYJUSTICE! AND I'LL KILL YE!...AND DON'T MAKE FUN OF ME HAT!'

When you find out where Tutsi is heading, you'll understand why he's on the vodka at 8.30 in the morning

Can't be that much worse than Khartoum where I have been flitting to recently on business. Lucky to get a warm beer in a tea cup there.

If they're in a 7-11 they aren't hi-sos.

yeah...it coulda been a ladyboy limo driver in drag expressing disgust at a falang's misbehavior...and I shoulda gone out to the parking lot to go after the real perp...(SMASH with glass everywhere and then with the real hi-sos: 'and exactly what are you trying to achieve? mr falang in a panama hat at 0830 in the morning?' ' I WANT WESTERN COWBOYJUSTICE! AND I'LL KILL YE!...AND DON'T MAKE FUN OF ME HAT!'

To which the ladyboy replies, " You not cowboy, you from California, and you feel guilty mak mak when you mao no more "

Just sayin'

'You say what, you a cow boy?', asks the Thai-Arab with a quizzical expression on his face. 'I a camel man, myself.'

Tutsi, perplexed, asks, 'Oh okay, you smoke Camels.' The Thai-Arab, with a look of consternation, 'Not unless they give me very big smile.'

(Yep, only in Bedlam... I'll get my hat.)

They think that if they're baht millionaires (yep, tuppence in our language),

I know I have been away for a while and just pop in now and again, but I can't remember you being this angst befuddled Ping.

By the way, if a Baht Million is worth tuppence in our language, can you spare me approx 22K Sterling, I can buy a lot of Vodka with that?

When you find out where Tutsi is heading, you'll understand why he's on the vodka at 8.30 in the morning

Can't be that much worse than Khartoum where I have been flitting to recently on business. Lucky to get a warm beer in a tea cup there.

How's Gordon?

Piked, I'd Say, certainly no Gin