Redbaron Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 A few years ago I ventured to the ex's village a few times. One of the reasons she's now the 'ex' is at one stage it appeared I was about to get the living crap beaten out of me. We (me, the ex and little sis) were at a friend of the family's house, enjoying the day, playing with the kids etc. When a pickup truck with a dozen Thai guys turned up. I was on a hammock, and the ringleader starts shouting at me in thai/english... something about his wife (this could have been a mistranslation, he could have meant my wife) and hitting me on the head. Normally I'd pounce up and start swinging, but his dozen mates in the truck sort of made me think twice about that one. We all know about the head being a not so nice part of the body to assault and all that. At the time, I thought the best bet was to smile and take it... Funny, the missus at the time was 3 feet away, back turned to us, and never stopped her conversation with the neighbour. This was about my 6th village visit, and was quite comfortable up until then, visiting everyone there. I put it down to 2 possibilities. 1. The guy was her BF/husband/ex whatever, and jealous. 2. Just a drunk bloke, who didn't like farangs. The GF at the time's insistance on doing nothing however, I thought was pretty lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun_Kong Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 Redbaron said: A few years ago I ventured to the ex's village a few times. One of the reasons she's now the 'ex' is at one stage it appeared I was about to get the living crap beaten out of me. We (me, the ex and little sis) were at a friend of the family's house, enjoying the day, playing with the kids etc. When a pickup truck with a dozen Thai guys turned up. I was on a hammock, and the ringleader starts shouting at me in thai/english... something about his wife (this could have been a mistranslation, he could have meant my wife) and hitting me on the head. Normally I'd pounce up and start swinging, but his dozen mates in the truck sort of made me think twice about that one. We all know about the head being a not so nice part of the body to assault and all that. At the time, I thought the best bet was to smile and take it... Funny, the missus at the time was 3 feet away, back turned to us, and never stopped her conversation with the neighbour. This was about my 6th village visit, and was quite comfortable up until then, visiting everyone there. I put it down to 2 possibilities. 1. The guy was her BF/husband/ex whatever, and jealous. 2. Just a drunk bloke, who didn't like farangs. The GF at the time's insistance on doing nothing however, I thought was pretty lame. Hope you caught the VERY NEXT horse outta Dodge! What an ass your GF was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pe7e Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 Funny, the missus at the time was 3 feet away, back turned to us, and never stopped her conversation with the neighbour. I can relate to this, a few years ago when on a trip to Mukdahan in the NE of Thailand, me and the ex where in a cheap restaurant when this guy came wandering in, his eyes were glazed over, IMO he was high on narcotics, he came straight to me, and in a rather menacing manner demanded money and despite my refusals would not take no for an answer. The funny thing was, this creep appeared to be invisible to everyone except me, the GF the staff and the other customers (Thai) completley ignored him, it was as if he wasn't there. In the end I gave him some change, and he left, I was dissapointed with the lack of support I was shown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 Not at all dangerous, depending on the bar girl I go back all the time, only bad thing happened to me was there was a "Welcome to our Village" ceremony that by the end of it I realized was actually a "We just married you off to our daughter" ceremony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun_Kong Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Jimmie Blonde said:Not at all dangerous, depending on the bar girl I go back all the time, only bad thing happened to me was there was a "Welcome to our Village" ceremony that by the end of it I realized was actually a "We just married you off to our daughter" ceremony Same thing happened to me. I'm so thick I didn't see it coming until the banana leaf temple and string thing started. GF had us do some photos about 3 months prior, one wearing what she said is "traditional" Thai garb. Later, a friend saw the photo and asked, "So when did you get married?". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Can happen. I was at a wedding recently. One falang made an ass of himself and went to sleep - drunk. I later went to sleep. About an hour later, the son of the bride's father's brother showed up and wanted to kill falangs. It turned out his wife goes to Pattya and works falangs for money. Consequently, he hates all falangs. The drunk falang woked up and went outside. The Thai man wanted to kill the falang but his father intervened. The man almost broke his father's wrist. When I realized what had happened, I went back to sleep. The drunk falang spent the rest of the night awake. In villages, the people will protect you, or at least I think they will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spirit_of_town_hall Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 The son of the brides father, ie the brides brother? STH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun_Kong Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 spirit_of_town_hall said:The son of the brides father, ie the brides brother? STH Original: "...the son of the bride's father's brother ..." Uncle's son = cousin, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Hypothetically if the situation arose and a Thai man wanted a fight I'd accommodate him as long as he had no weapons and friends to back him up--he could fight me on my local recreation ground if he wanted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhat_Man Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 lazyphil said:he could fight me on my local recreation ground if he wanted Well Hard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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