sirchai Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Seems that they don't do such things at the coconut bar, where you've got your username from. Yes, it happened to me many times and most Thai people are honest people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datebayo Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 (edited) I once lost my wallet, it was full with money and cards and stuff. I realized it when I was back home. Luckyily the time period that I might lost it was not too much as well as the locations that I have been in the time-frame. So I traced my steps back to all the places I have been to on that evening. After 40 minutes of walking around I found my wallet in one of my favorite gogo bar. I must have been having too much fun buying tequilas and throwing ping pong balls to notice my lost wallet on that evenings bar hopping. I barfined the cute waitress who was so honest to give me back my wallet when I went in to the gogo - I could give her a finders fee, but when I saw the 3000baht was still in the wallet... She ran right away to me and said '' you ting tong man, why you forget wallet, I so worry you not have money go back room na'' Edited June 14, 2014 by Datebayo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cobra Posted June 14, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2014 I dropped a bunch of ping pong balls in a purportedly reputable establishment,none of them returned to me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namdocmai Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 One day my wife found 500 baht on the street in our moobaan. She didn't want to have it and left it at the guardbooth in our soi while he was biking around. Later when the guard was sitting at his booth and we passed him again my wife asked if he found the money and told him that he can have it. He said he allready brought it to his boss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chingching Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 While trying to purchase a 25 baht food item with two twenties, I couldn't get the vendor to accept the money. I couldn't figure out was happening and why he wouldn't take the money. Then he pointed to the prices, and I had selected a 20 baht item, not 25. And in the meantime I dropped 2000 out of my pocket and didn't know it. A thai lady, in nurses uniform, tapped me on the shoulder and handed me the money. This was in Ban Chang. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotpoom Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 No. I have full control of my faculties. I don't................... Lost my full bunch of keys on the road in from Bang Saray while on my motorbike. About 10 keys with a condo electric key (where I had intended to stay the night) and my only car fob remote. Drove all the way out and back in again slowly along the same route but no luck and it was night time. I'm always thinking about new inventions, so now I have something to think about. Whoever did find them would have no way of knowing who owned them.......Oh...wait...it just occurred to me. I could have a tag with my phone No. attached to my next bunch of keys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F4UCorsair Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 And then there are the taxi and tuk tuk drivers...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Something similar, only the items were never returned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 I had brand new galaxy phone pick pocketed in Cambodia near border but I was warned there were pick pockets there so no one to blame but myself, but left a I pad at the airport and came back 1 month later when going home and got it back, so it all evens out. thais have good values and are generally a lot more honest then our western counterparts I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezzra Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Drop something of real value, like gold, piece of jewelry or IPhone and see what happened... the love, mostly, be out the window.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshstiles Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 i suspect a troll post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianf Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 I don't drop stuff. I dropped one the other day. The Mrs saw it and flushed it away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Mamma Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 No. I have full control of my faculties. OK ROBOT man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc46 Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Once I woke up on the Asoke footbridge with my 'rolex' watch still on. Yea, they saw that it was a Copy and thought, let that poor farang keep it 55 55 55 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulzed Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 The question I have to ask is if you dropped that money in Pattaya soi 6 would the outcome be the same????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snottgoblin Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Lovely thread. Will, my car is pretty dirty at the moment, so would you be kind enough to lick my windows? Indeed Mr Snott. Thankfully my smartarse commment at #2 now has 30+ 'likes' so it would appear that the 'no humour police' are firmly in the minority Do you think Wil has found his sense of humour yet? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrimpythailand Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 had a buddy leave his phone in a cab a couple of years ago and he came into the place we were and realized he didn't have it.... cabbie had driven off - we called his number and the cabbie answered it and came back and dropped it off - we were amazed but lots of good stories to go along with the bad ones ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 (edited) What a bunch of cynical old farts TV.com has. Of the many internet discussion groups I periodically participate in, TV.com by far has the largest number of rude, ill-willed, argumentative, and cynical posters ... no other group is even close. For many of them I think it's a type of mental/spiritual sickness whereby they get perverted joy in putting other people down. Psychologically this is a sign of chronic anger and and feelings of inferiority ... i.e.,reveling in finding fault in others in order to make themselves feel superior. It somehow brings to mind how some dogs enjoy wallowing in carrion. While I agree with some of your observations, I believe that there are many courteous, goodwilled and positive people making up the readership.I am not a mental health professional, but perhaps some posters may post while under the influence. Perhaps they are aging, are unhappy, live unfulfilled lives or maybe they just like to be mean and hateful. Some may have resentments from past wrongs done to them or by them and they get some sort of satisfaction from sharing their dark interiors. For whatever reason they write such negative, crude, bigotted and hateful thoughts, it makes no impact on my inner peace and happiness. I read, am thankful I don't have those feelings and move on. There are more good people than the not so good. The good are just more silent. Live and Let Live "For whatever reason they write such negative, crude, bigotted and hateful thoughts, it makes no impact on my inner peace and happiness." I applaud your sentiment and your resilience. I have to admit the bigotry, ignorance, arrogance and negativity aggravate me, which I suppose is playing into the hands of those posting comments that reflect those attitudes. Having lived in several countries that might be labelled as "developing" (and Thailand is way more developed than a few I've lived in) and that had an expat presence, I've had to listen to such petty, unfounded condescending comments about the various local populations for nearly 40 years. It's no coincidence that those most likely to make such comments are themselves rather pathetic people with justifiably low self-esteem. Unfortunately bigotry is not without consequences, at the least in the form of hurt feelings and stirring up resentment, but in many cases having a definite substantive and material effect on those targeted. So my inner peace and happiness is impacted when faced with such prejudice, although I understand that responding heatedly to those posts doesn't accomplish much ... either in counteracting the bigotry or improving my inner peace. Edited June 15, 2014 by Suradit69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverdie Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 After reading this thread, I found I was feeling a warm fuzzy feeling inside, now I just need to work out whether I'm getting the runs or all this free Psychological advice from the wannabes is taking some effect ...... What I can't work out is what the big fuss is about. People every society on the planet has good, bad, short, tall, fat and thin people on it. Some of you think you've landed on <deleted> Mars or something. Having been lucky enough to travel in my life, I've drawn the conclusion that Thais generally area a lot more honest & considerate in this fashion that many of the countrymen that have crawled out of some of the 'h e l l' hole countries some of you lot came out of. Get over yourselves ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snottgoblin Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Agreed ND. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 the B300 seems safer on the street, than it is in your hotel Safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverdie Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Agreed ND. Thankyou Gobbla, I d expect someone like you to understand but some of the other peops on this forum think they pushing new boundaries of humanity every time they step outside their little hoval. Can you imagine some of these dorks in the wilderness ? 55555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harber8 Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 (edited) One observation I'd like to make is that I'm constantly finding money on the floor or seeing others find money. In 25 years I found twenty pounds on the floor in the west. In 5 years here I've found countless notes. Mainly 20's and 50's which I know are low value but it seems strange in comparison. Is this because they have more notes than say the sterling? Of or notes of lower values? Edited June 15, 2014 by harber8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draftvader Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I left my phone in a taxi in Silom a few years ago. I called my number and taxi driver answered. 5 minutes later he was back where he dropped us off. I gave him B100 for the time he lost though he never asked me for that. By equality the exact same thing happened in Copenhagen many years previously and the taxi driver bought the phone back to me then too. See, good people everywhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snottgoblin Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Agreed ND.Thankyou Gobbla,I d expect someone like you to understand but some of the other peops on this forum think they pushing new boundaries of humanity every time they step outside their little hoval. Can you imagine some of these dorks in the wilderness ? 55555 Sir Die, I wonder if some of these people ever have any interactions with the natives? Thai people aren't from bloody Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benmart Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Some posters have no sense of humor and constantly post their pompous, piffle, pishposh sermons.And some prefer to listen or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverdie Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Agreed ND.Thankyou Gobbla,I d expect someone like you to understand but some of the other peops on this forum think they pushing new boundaries of humanity every time they step outside their little hoval. Can you imagine some of these dorks in the wilderness ? 55555 Sir Die, I wonder if some of these people ever have any interactions with the natives? Thai people aren't from bloody Mars. No doubt the race to their 3200 baht rooms to quickly create threads anytime someone breaks wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soutpeel Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Lovely thread. Will, my car is pretty dirty at the moment, so would you be kind enough to lick my windows? Indeed Mr Snott. Thankfully my smartarse commment at #2 now has 30+ 'likes' so it would appear that the 'no humour police' are firmly in the minority Do you think Wil has found his sense of humour yet? I am still wondering if he has found the gerbil yet ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snottgoblin Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Lovely thread. Will, my car is pretty dirty at the moment, so would you be kind enough to lick my windows? Indeed Mr Snott. Thankfully my smartarse commment at #2 now has 30+ 'likes' so it would appear that the 'no humour police' are firmly in the minority Do you think Wil has found his sense of humour yet?I am still wondering if he has found the gerbil yet ? It's probably buried quite deep at this time, maybe he'll answer when it pops back out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snottgoblin Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Did Jeremy find his keys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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