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Something else comes back to me. We want to go out in the evening, the three of us. Yes, wonderful. I take my hairbrush and go through my hair, put on my shoes and am ready. Khun Fah stands in the room and says two or three sentences aloud, making hand movements that are supposed to mean that both, Ott and I, should leave the room. Ott translates for me that she wants to get ready for the evening and that we can both go downstairs to Khun Boh's bar and have our first beer. „What did she say, 'we were allowed to do'?“ I ask my friend. „Yes“, says Ott, „I translated exactly, we have her permission, we are allowed.“ I remember an old song from the 60s, Alma Cogan sings the Lovers Concerto by the Toys in German (actually a minuet by Johann Sebastian Bach) with the German title: „So fängt es immer an“. That's how it always starts. „So fängt es immer an. That's how it always starts“, I say to my Thai friend. „A few days ago I could do what I wanted without asking her. Now she allows what I can do, and in a few days she says to me in a clear unmistakable commanding tone: 'Tonight my favourite TV show is on. We'll watch it together. Don't you dare leave the room.' That's a nice outlook.“ Ott looks at me with a broad grin and pats me encouragingly on the shoulder: „As an old husband with a lot of experince, that sounds familiar to me too. Do you think our Thai women are different from your German ones in this respect?“ You live and learn, leaped to my mind ... A few seconds later we were at the bar enjoying the first beer. no pictures, sorry.

I am sure I stay with them. Fidelity in relationship is what matters a lot to me.