Leaderboard

Sometimes, something happens that goes a long way toward restoring your faith in humanity and Thailand and the Thai people. Yesterday, I was walking up Suk Soi 7 toward the beer garden. I don't know what happened, but I stumbled, couldn't recover, and went down hard in the street. I saw a motorcycle avoid me once I picked my head up. Before I knew it, before I even had time to start thinking about how I was going to get up, there were people around me, asking if I was OK, helping me up. I finally counted four men and one woman. They got me stood up. I had some scrapes, bleeding. Someone found paper towels somewhere, they helped me clean up, and one of them then walked with me to the beer garden and saw me safely to a stool. The beer garden dek serve found a towel and then their box of plasters, and we finished the cleanup and bandaging job. TIT. Thank God. The Thais are still some of the most wonderful people on the planet.

There was a local cleanup here that one needed to take a boat to. Big event, lots of kids, government workers, governor speeches, etc. Out of maybe 1,000 there were 2 other falangs besides me. Getting out of the boat, coming back after the event, I stumbled and fell on the dock (embarrassing, had boats most my life). I was fine, but 5-6 Thais (I'm kind of big) helped me up, grabbed my arm, and wouldn't let go until well on shore. I could have done without it, but it was nice. I've quite a few other examples of very helpful Thais, funny how these are all outside tourist areas!!

Dangerous precedent their RM, you are saying an 85 year old such as my Father whom grew up during the bombings of Second World War, should not have been afforded a say , yet Abdul and Mohammed who have been in the country less than 5 minutes are?

Golden Oldies revisited: Camilla bought a new pair of shoes for her wedding day which got increasingly tighter & tighter as the event went on. That night after the festivities were finally over, she & Charles had retired back to their room. Camilla flopped on the bed and said "Please remove my shoes darling. One's feet are killing me". Ever obedient, the Prince of Wales attacked her right shoe with vigor......but it would not budge. "Harder" yelled Camilla. "Harder?" Charles yelled back, "I'm trying darling ! But it's just so bloody tight !" "Come on give it all you've got" she cried. Finally when it released, Charles let out a big groan, and Camilla exclaimed, "There ! Oh God, that feels so good." In their bedroom next door the Queen turned to Prince Phillip and said, "See I told you she was still a virgin with a face like that!" Meanwhile back in the other bedroom Charles was attempting to remove the other shoe when he cried out, "Oh god, darling this ones even tighter". At which point Prince Phillip turned and said to the Queen, "That's my boy, once a navy man.........always a navy man!"