Crossy

Dr. Epstein was a renowned physician who earned his undergraduate, then graduate and medical degrees in his home town, and then left for Manhattan, where he quickly rose to the top of his field. Soon he was invited to deliver a significant paper at a conference, coincidentally held in his home town. He walked on stage and placed his papers on the lectern, but they slid off onto the floor. As he bent over to retrieve them, at precisely the wrong instant, he farted stentoriously. The microphone amplified his mistake resoundingly through the room and reverberating down the hall! He was appallingly embarrassed but somehow regained his composure just enough to deliver his paper. He ignored the applause and raced out the stage door, never to be seen in his home town again. Decades later, when his elderly mother was ill, he returned to visit her. He reserved a hotel room under the name of Brown and arrived under cover of darkness. The desk clerk asked him, "Is this your first visit to our city, Mr. Brown?" Dr. Epstein replied, "Well, young man, no, it isn't. I grew up here and received my education here, but then I moved away." "Why haven't you visited?" asked the desk clerk. "Actually, I did visit once, many years ago, but a very embarrassing thing happened, and since then I've been too ashamed to return." The clerk consoled him. "Sir, while I don't have your life experience, but one thing I have learned is that often what seems embarrassing to me isn't even remembered by others. I'll bet that's true of your incident, too." Dr. Epstein replied, "Son, I doubt that's the case with my incident." "Was it a long time ago?" "Yes, many years." The clerk asked, "Was it before or after the Epstein Fart?"

Our local "wholesaler" is open 9AM - 6PM with no apparent restrictions on quantity. They do sell a small selection of non-alcohol goods, but I'm not really sure under what laws they operate. This is Thailand after all

Was that "missed" or "pissed"??

Gemini AI says this: -

Yeah ^^^. My understanding was that it was originally intended to stop the kids buying on the way home from school, but it's all lost in the annals (anals) of time.

I wish they would bring back the old rider on the sales hours which said you could buy "wholesale quantities" outside hours. IIRC it was buy 10 litres or more at any time, so 2 slabs of 24 x 320ml cans (15.36 litres) was just fine. I did have to educate some Tesco-Lotus checkout girls on the finer points of the law.

Long, long ago a mate, who was known as "Bonking Bob" (for fairly obvious reasons), had a saying :- "Thai girls - take two they're small". Bob is now happily retired in Malta with his rather lovely Maltese wife.

I wonder if a pink ID number would work since they seem incapable of handling passports.

There's not actually much going on at present, next high tides are at the end of next week. Keep an eye on the river level thread linked to earlier 🙂

I've not received said message, yet! When I do i'll be off to the bank to try to turn it on, we shall see. I don't often do transfers over 50k anyway. It took several attempts to get it to work in Bangkok Bank a couple of weeks back but it worked eventually.