Cheap Charlie Farangs!

[David006]

Maybe GMs leave this here PLEASE

Cheap charlie stories:

Okay this is in the Farming forum cos that is where the true expats seem to be ...so maybe our esteemed GMs can leave it here:

Just read about the Isaan farmers get together and the the cheap charlie spongers that seem to have come out of the woodwork.....

We all know that if you live in someplace warm with maybe beaches yadda yadda..rellies and friends come out of the woodwork.

Now have some Aussie stories too but this is Thailand right?

So a few years ago thanks to FB I discovered a first cousin living in Holland with his Dutch wife.

Hey I say come visit I says great we can reminisce and get drunk I says. So he says great will do will keep the beer fridge and house full to the rafters (his email).

Then get an email suggesting that he does not like to eat this and that and his frickin darling wife cannot eat prawns....and do we have aircon and do we have mosquito nets etc etc ....

SOOOO picks him and his wife up at Krabi airport 50 k away and bring him to our humble abode...

First thing the bovine wife says.."We really don't expect your wife to wait on us hand and foot"!!

AS IF!!!

So then we go to liquor supplier and he buys two whole cases of beer......( the only booze he ever bought)

Come back and they complain about no air con and mozzies.....

Next he wants to buy scotch so take him and suggest a label...no! That must be Thai <deleted>..Anyways he buys upmarket scotch and keeps it under his bed methinks since I never saw a dram of it...

Now this guy tells me he is a chef so I subtlety suggest that maybe he could put together a nice gourmet meal for us....fell on deaf ears.

So my wife is cooking everything and after a few days dishes up Thai noodles and pork yadda yadda....he leans over to his bovine wife and says "not sure I like the noodles" ...f...k I got mad tempted to belt him in the mouth....and said well don't eat the fricking thing and maybe it would have more polite not to talk that way in front of my wife!!

So after a week or so they get bored I guess and wish to travel north and look at temples and the Bridge on the Kwai..So innocent I get on the internet and tries to get rail ticket as the wanke_r don't want to pay airfare. So take him 50 k each way to book his frickin ticket and eventually after dropping him and bovine off at rail station

( another 50k each way.) Bit of gas money.... what?....they are GONE.. THANK FK!!!

Anyways three frickin months no mail nothing. Then get an email complaining the train was four hours late and the 400 bt he had to pay a taxi in BKK.......with photos of the sweet couple on the B on Kwai...

Loads more stories but ......

Beware the cheap Charlie Euro Farang!!!

LOL

[David006]

Since I am on roll here: the wife and I just got back from a week R&R in Phuket ..me drink and swim she drink eat eat, eat ,eat, eat and talk.talk talk talk with visiting friends from Europe...........

So while we are away the MIL taking care of the house..my age..gets bored and cuts rubber..wife says why you do?.. I say "dugh".......get back I say pay 50% so wife gives her 60 % ..no worries..the MIL comes to me when wife busy and tries to thrust 3kbt in my hand.."don't need" I says ..for you I says...........bugger... so explain to tell her via wife don't want....she works hard ........MIL not happy...lol

Guess I lucked out..lovely old lady same age as me LOL....

MIL just phoned yesterday says doc says her cholesterol and blood pressure down,down..ecstatic.....happy happy...............ah !!!! life on the farm...lol

[cooked]

One reason I didn't go to the Isaan farmers' meeting is that I can't really afford to pay my way. (The other is that I have gone off farming in Thailand altogether). I should have liked to turn up with a pickup loaded with booze but this may not have been a wise idea in view of my budget. Rice? Ok, 200 Kg no problem...

[IsaanAussie]

The Farming Forum has always been an interesting source of information for me without the usual BS snipping, but it seems that is changing. It has always been a place those with valuable knowledge have been able to advise those willing to listen. As I suggested on another thread, things that happen on a trip away, stay away. If there ever is another meeting you are all welcome as those of us who have attended have been. This cheap charlie will think very hard before he travels 600 kms again.

Edited November 16, 2012 by IsaanAussie

[David006]

Apologies to anyone who thought I was snipping at them ..twas not the intention...more of a tongue in cheek personal experience & point of view prompted by the Isaan farmers meeting post.

There will always be the short arm deep pocket brigade in any situation....I guess that if someone is gracious enough to host these things, bringing sufficient ++ BYO and maybe a bunch of flowers for the lady of the house would just be common courtesy whether or not it was expected. ??

Guess it depends what one is used to though.

For me Isaan is a bridge too far......

[Mosha]

I've just said goodbye to friends from the home village. I didn't have to fork out 1 cetang, but boy one of them would have won gold in the Complaining Olympics. (Yes Aussie friends I'm a To and From.) Took them to our favourite eating spot. One of those eat all you want cook yourself at the table. 70 years old and he's never even made a sandwich! 3 days was enough, even though I enjoyed talking in Tyke.