Landlord stole my bananas

[12DrinkMore]

I rent a house with a garden where I planted some trees, flowers and a couple of banana trees. The banana trees after a year or so produced a large bunch of bananas and they were just turning from green to yellow.

Today, while I was out, the landlord came into the garden, chopped down the banana tree and took the whole bloody bunch. No joke.

I am a little bit annoyed about this.

Ignoring the "Farang has no rights", is the landlord allowed to simply do this? What about the other flowers? Is he allowed to come along and take them too?

I am not going to go and make a huge scene over a bunch of bananas. But really, what the <deleted> is the mentality here?

Some while ago I thought about renting a small allotment and planting some vegetables etc. Now I am glad that I didn't.

Yep, a little pi55ed off today.

[mrtoad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT6JkceQ9FU

[ThaidDown]

Play this so the landlord can hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jT6JkceQ9FU

Posted same time as mrtoad, teats uncanny, Great minds ???

[thailiketoo]

The psychopath's world is a strikingly skewed one in which the normal laws of human emotion and interaction do not apply—yet it serves as reality for a sizable portion of humanity. Spanning all cultures and eras, roughly one man in every 100 is born a clinical psychopath, as well as one woman in every 300. They are so common that every person reading this sentence almost certainly knows one personally; indeed, a significant number of readers are likely psychopaths themselves.

You have met one.

You seem to be applying one persons behavior to a whole country as you wrote, "But really, what the <deleted> is the mentality here?"

Surely many will join you as that is considered fair dinkum round these parts. But it ain't.

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unburdened-mind/

[fry30]

Funny my landlord did the same with the coconut, she saw that I was starting to eat some of them so she came to harvest as much she could. I called her to explain that I was renting and therefore she has no right to do this and her answer was she didn't think I would make problem for a bunch of coconut, especially at 20 bahts the coconut. If it's so cheap why the hell she needed to do this...

She is a greedy grave robber, got 3 houses at 10 millions bahts each by marrying some farang and waiting them to die, probably help them a little, got farang kids for the credibility, a classic here but given her face she is quite lucky it worked.

Just to say, you are not alone.

[A1Str8]

I understand you are pissed. This behavior is disgusting at best. I would talk to him for sure and make it clear to him that I am not the man s/he can do such things to and get away with it. I would also gift wrap some sh_t and give it to him as a sign of my appreciation towards sh_t people.

[ignis]

just turning from green to yellow........ there is the answer.......... Appears Thais cut everything early, Bananas they cut green, we in the west like fruit ripe, here most fruit is rock hard and you have to leave it a week on the table to get ripe

[12DrinkMore]

I understand you are pissed. This behavior is disgusting at best. I would talk to him for sure and make it clear to him that I am not the man s/he can do such things to and get away with it. I would also gift wrap some sh_t and give it to him as a sign of my appreciation towards sh_t people.

You are not destined for a long and peaceful life in Thailand.....

[12DrinkMore]

The psychopath's world is a strikingly skewed one in which the normal laws of human emotion and interaction do not apply—yet it serves as reality for a sizable portion of humanity. Spanning all cultures and eras, roughly one man in every 100 is born a clinical psychopath, as well as one woman in every 300. They are so common that every person reading this sentence almost certainly knows one personally; indeed, a significant number of readers are likely psychopaths themselves.

You have met one.

You seem to be applying one persons behavior to a whole country as you wrote, "But really, what the <deleted> is the mentality here?"

Surely many will join you as that is considered fair dinkum round these parts. But it ain't.

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unburdened-mind/

After reading the link I am not sure that the 1 in 300 is accurate for women.

[krisb]

Just send your wife round to sort em out. That's always my answer for Thai problems.

[thailiketoo]

The psychopath's world is a strikingly skewed one in which the normal laws of human emotion and interaction do not apply—yet it serves as reality for a sizable portion of humanity. Spanning all cultures and eras, roughly one man in every 100 is born a clinical psychopath, as well as one woman in every 300. They are so common that every person reading this sentence almost certainly knows one personally; indeed, a significant number of readers are likely psychopaths themselves.

You have met one.

You seem to be applying one persons behavior to a whole country as you wrote, "But really, what the <deleted> is the mentality here?"

Surely many will join you as that is considered fair dinkum round these parts. But it ain't.

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unburdened-mind/

After reading the link I am not sure that the 1 in 300 is accurate for women.

I had given that some thought. But on a good night there are at least 300 customers spending a small fortune to look at one middle aged go go dancer who is making a small fortune. So 300 to 1 is about right.

[Tchooptip]

just turning from green to yellow........ there is the answer.......... Appears Thais cut everything early, Bananas they cut green, we in the west like fruit ripe, here most fruit is rock hard and you have to leave it a week on the table to get ripe

I guess you are right, behind my house are a few banana trees my landlady told us no problem can take if you like, my wife cut some but still totally green, and put them on the terrace to ripe!

so not impossible the OP landlord thought since nobody seems to care for those bananas I will take them before they are rotting? Once again not sure but not impossible ?

[12DrinkMore]

Just send your wife round to sort em out. That's always my answer for Thai problems.

I have no intention of getting one of them.

They are a much bigger headache than a bunch of stolen bananas.

[FiftyTwo]

The psychopath's world is a strikingly skewed one in which the normal laws of human emotion and interaction do not applyyet it serves as reality for a sizable portion of humanity. Spanning all cultures and eras, roughly one man in every 100 is born a clinical psychopath, as well as one woman in every 300. They are so common that every person reading this sentence almost certainly knows one personally; indeed, a significant number of readers are likely psychopaths themselves.

You have met one.

You seem to be applying one persons behavior to a whole country as you wrote, "But really, what the <deleted> is the mentality here?"

Surely many will join you as that is considered fair dinkum round these parts. But it ain't.

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unburdened-mind/

After reading the link I am not sure that the 1 in 300 is accurate for women.

They should have omitted the "00".

[12DrinkMore]

The psychopath's world is a strikingly skewed one in which the normal laws of human emotion and interaction do not apply—yet it serves as reality for a sizable portion of humanity. Spanning all cultures and eras, roughly one man in every 100 is born a clinical psychopath, as well as one woman in every 300. They are so common that every person reading this sentence almost certainly knows one personally; indeed, a significant number of readers are likely psychopaths themselves.

You have met one.

You seem to be applying one persons behavior to a whole country as you wrote, "But really, what the <deleted> is the mentality here?"

Surely many will join you as that is considered fair dinkum round these parts. But it ain't.

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unburdened-mind/

After reading the link I am not sure that the 1 in 300 is accurate for women.

I had given that some thought. But on a good night there are at least 300 customers spending a small fortune to look at one middle aged go go dancer who is making a small fortune. So 300 to 1 is about right.

You are mixing the bananas with the peaches.

Out of the 300 men (assuming they are all men) three will be on average psychopathic, the rest have other issues, possibly induced through sex deprivation due to living under UK censorship and women's rights groups.

The single go-go dancer is too small a sample from the female population to be significant.

[thailiketoo]

The psychopath's world is a strikingly skewed one in which the normal laws of human emotion and interaction do not applyyet it serves as reality for a sizable portion of humanity. Spanning all cultures and eras, roughly one man in every 100 is born a clinical psychopath, as well as one woman in every 300. They are so common that every person reading this sentence almost certainly knows one personally; indeed, a significant number of readers are likely psychopaths themselves.

You have met one.

You seem to be applying one persons behavior to a whole country as you wrote, "But really, what the <deleted> is the mentality here?"

Surely many will join you as that is considered fair dinkum round these parts. But it ain't.

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unburdened-mind/

After reading the link I am not sure that the 1 in 300 is accurate for women.

They should have omitted the "00".

Every man is different. I guess you get what you deserve or ask for. I think 1 out of 300 as that has been my experience and you think 1 in 3 as has I'm sure been your experience. Makes sense to me.

[aveabeeror2]

Bored drink more?

[Old Croc]

I call this personality type, "sociopaths".

There's been some very prolific ones on the forum recently.

I like this from that link - "Posts "first!" comments on Internet sites"

[FiftyTwo]

After reading the link I am not sure that the 1 in 300 is accurate for women.

They should have omitted the "00".

Every man is different. I guess you get what you deserve or ask for. I think 1 out of 300 as that has been my experience and you think 1 in 3 as has I'm sure been your experience. Makes sense to me.

Out of my last 4 lovers, 1 Sociopath, 3 Psychopaths.

Lucky I only married two of them.

On the other hand, life was never dull.

[willyumiii]

Maybe you are new to Thailand?

Anything you grow here is fare game to anyone who sees it and wants it, not just the owner of your property!

Bananas, jack fruit, mangoes, papayas, I am very lucky if I get to eat any that I grow.

I live in a village and anyone who wants something just helps themselves.

Not just in my yard, but in anyone's yard.

Waiting for your fruit to get ripe before harvest is a huge mistake.

What we consider ripe is considered no good by Thais.

Have you noticed that they eat most fruit while still green and hard?

I've wondered if they developed a taste for unripe fruit as a result of trying to pick the fruit before anyone else gets to it and before it gets ripe!

I really bothers me too that others get the fruits of my labor ( pun intended )

But try not to feel abused.

They are treating you the same way they treat each other.

[jackr]

He's done it to prove to you it's still his property and though you planted it it still sprouted forth on his land. It probably wouldn't go well if you confronted the issue as you are likely dealing with the mentality of a gorilla by the sounds... and not to bash the gorillas of course. My last landlord was a diamond, btw, though a middle class Bangkokian with a brain.

/additional: I would make it clear, however, to stay tf out of the yard/house unless he makes an appointment first. Screw the bananas, that's just not on. Where do you live anyway?//