Being Thaied up
I've dropped a few comments in Specularium about how it is living as an expat here - maybe instead of interrupting, this blog is the way to share.
I've lived here in Thailand for almost 14 years - and was a frequent visitor for at least 14 years before that. My first business was a a joint owner of a beachside, 20 bedroom resort - idyllic, except for my business partner, whose wife has since been charged with attempted murder...that was my lucky escape!( He was a Brit, by the way).
Sold out of that, and went into business with old friends - he is Brit, she is Thai, were then married. We built houses - very good ones! Our developments sold out fast.
I'm now retired, and enjoying it! I've both Thai and Falang (foreign) friends, and most social occasions involve both.
Been down at the beach today - and have not been so embarrassed for a very long time. I was with an English family I know well, a Thai friend, and a visitor. We were sitting in a beach cafe - and at the next table was an English guy, probably in his sixties, who at 3 in the afternoon was very drunk, singing loudly, expressing his opinions at the top of his voice (and his only adjective was' fucking' and only personal noun was 'cunt'). The bar owner was having a massage - Thai massages are world renowned - but had to listen to a barrage of 'you're fucking gay, you are! you fucking gay cunt!'.
I wanted to go into a corner and die. I know all the staff at this cafe - we go there at least once a week. We - a party of 8 - had a choice - to leave, and deprive the owner of much needed income because of this idiot's behaviour, or stay, and endure it. We stayed for a while - and when we left, apologised to the owner, and said we were ashamed to be British.
What would you have done? This is a country where the local people are NEVER rude to a guest, and just endure bad behaviour. But confronting this eejit ourselves could have caused an incident. I still don't know - I was itching to tell him to shut up!
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