Shelly hilariously and truthfully wrote:
You know you’re living in Chiang Mai when………
– You’re taking a shower and yell, “Hey! Who took all the cold water?”
– You realize you’ve been dreaming at night about pancakes and french fries.
– You can’t remember the last time you wore a pair of shoes for more than 15 minutes.
– You’re totally convinced the “manna from Heaven” in the Bible was pizza.
– The temperature in the dorms gets down to 80 and you feel like you really need a blanket.
I’d like to add my own:
– Most everyone bows politely to you and says “Sawati Krup”
– When you are down in the kitchen at night getting a drink and you hear a noise and see a shadow flicker past the window and you whirl to look, it is one of your Mooban’s (neighborhood) security men patrolling on his bicycle
– Your Buddhist neighbor brings tropical fruit to welcome you to the neighborhood
– Whenever something glass breaks, you yell “5 baht!” (Because that’s how much the Coke bottles cost.)
– You can never remember which way to motion with your hand for a taxi (song-taew)–one is an appropriate way and the other way means… well, something else
– When taking change from a clerk, your left hand always comes rushing up to accept the money in addition to your right hand because you forgot yet again that you’re supposed to handle money with two hands, because it has the picture of the king on it
– There are two times as many fans in the room as lights
– You are treated to the intriguing sight of a small fan bursting into flames (and subsequent frantic activity) on someone’s bed because they forgot and plugged a 110 fan into a 220 outlet
– You hear a frog croaking and you look around for a little lady selling stuff and rubbing a stick on a wooden thingamabopper
– You hear a constant stream of complaints from a certain person who was unfortunate enough to receive his tetanus shot in his posterior, much to his continued discomfort
–
A large roach/beetle (a big bug!) started crawling up the wall behind two females. This precipitated about 15 minutes of urgent activity by some noble male rescuers who embarked on a mission to capture the bug in a Coke bottle without touching it or slaying it. Darrell captured some hilarious video of the ensuing endeavor.
(By the way, if you are at all interested in life in Thailand or in IGO, be sure to be reading the IGO blog aggregator.)
Leave a Comment