This Bangkok morning about 6:30, I was having high class buffet after just joining a packed hungry crowd from some place. We were all just enjoying the heck out of our meal and watching the dearth of birds not flit around the landscaping outside. Huge windows made the setting a stage and drew our attention.

Outside strolled a guy with a plate of fruit deciding which table to choose among the empty many. .All of a sudden he begins to bend slightly over, reaches up his free hand, and after compressing one nostril, forcefully exhales a magnificent shower of mucus down around him, its beauty back-lit by the rising morning sun.

I thought, my Hong Kong wife, where ever she is now bless her heart, would have left her breakfast on the floor and departed the room. I was not fazed in the least, fondly remembering my good old days back home on the golf course.

There is no point in wondering where this farmer with his plate of fruit grew up, could have been in any of a number of countries.

My only question is: When you are out on the links, or on the high seas fishing, do you resort to your sleeve, or a better way?

To qualify this a bit, when for example we read the history of Tom Jones, we realize that city dwellers and country folk have different ideas about what might be acceptable behavior. I was wondering what others might find acceptable down on the farm, or back home, which is not acceptable here. There must be many of these behaviors.

Care to mention a few?

on the Farm is different way of life, sure 100%

we have a strong family and work hard

when you are in aircon, we are working under the sun

we make what you eat at breakfast

enjoy your food and think of us

Actually, this was exactly my point, one which I continue to try making.

This morning, I was thinking that this man with the plate of fruit may also have a son or daughter at MIT.

I have met many like him.

These men are usually not migrant workers, though some have children who move to the cities to become robots in factories.

If I were a Farmer's Daughter, I would prefer MIT over FoxConn, any old Sunday.

If I were younger, I might prefer the Farmer's Daughter.

Yes, how did you know?

I do enjoy my food.

Keep on planting, Sugar.

I like your hat.

If you farm fish, or abalone, shrimp or eel, please send some my way.

Raising these, is not such hard work as tilling the fields.

Very good money, too. (As far as I know)