You?ve been here way too long when

[Nervous_Dog]

I remember years ago on ASFO a great post, and I think it's been repeated here, that was "You've been here a long time when . . .

 

Things like Ice in Beer etc.

 

However, I've been thinking, sometimes some people have been here too long especially when I started . . .

 

Driving my motorbike or car safely into oncoming traffic

 

Read a newspaper at a go-go

 

Eat Dog

 

Don?t use any paper at all when in the toilet!

 

OK - I haven't done the last two, but if I do, then ship me out of here!

 

DOG

[Zaad]

Eat pizza with ketchup

[BadaBing]

you complain your som tum is not spicy enough

 

you complain your beer is too cold

 

you complain when you arrive to your destination 18 minutes before you expected to be there

 

you complain the local soi dog ignor's you now

 

you complain..... ???

 

Bada :: Bing ::

[dddave]

You eat with the spoon in the right hand, fork in the left.

 

You look at a B400 dinner special and mutter about how outragously expensive that is.

 

You talk about Nanaplaza in the old days.

 

You can get to Pantip on a bus.

 

You no longer return the wai of the doorman.

 

You can say "Kanchanaburi" and have a Thai understand.

 

You push your way onto the BTS before passengers inside can disembark.

[Nervous_Dog]

WOW- I bought a breakfast for 90 baht, thought htat was expensive ass I useually pay 12 baht for a big cup of Chinese milk stuff and a bag of fried donuts!

 

DOG

[limbo]

You seriously consider hit and run after an accident.

[Zaad]

OUCH!

 

or when you cover your mouth during a chat on a mobile phone.

[sayjann]

'Eat pizza with ketchup'

 

can't eat pizza without ketchup old boy......

[..]

Here are some of my personal ones:

 

-- You remember what Bourbon St was called before it was Bourbon St.

 

-- You know the whereabouts of at least a dozen 20+ year old American cars ('64 Valiant, '65 Mustang, '69 Cougar, '72 Mustang, '74 Corvette, '80 Caddy, etc) that are used as daily drivers by some Thai family

 

-- The flower seller at NEP/Cowboy/Wash Sq no longer ever tries to sell you flowers, just dismisses you with a hand wave and a disgusted look

 

-- You know what Seri Court was and where it is located

 

-- You remember the Washington Theatre

 

-- You can drunkenly walk out of a bar without paying your tab and not end up in the hospital; just be presented with it the next time you show up

 

-- You have signatory (credit) accounts at more than one bar

 

-- Bargirls buy you drinks on a regular basis

 

-- All of your shoes have the spine (the strong bit that runs up the back of your heel) folded over

 

-- You never get in the front seat of a car

 

-- Your mobile telephone phone book includes at least one general officer (or their asssistant) from each branch of the Thai public service

 

-- You remember when the NEP car park was a car park

 

-- You remember when NEP had businesses other than go-gos in it (travel agent, restaraunt, etc)

 

-- You have stopped wearing Buddha amulets

 

-- You have had at least one beer in Lucy's Tiger Den

 

-- While taking a piss, you have been dripped upon by "mermaids" leaving their fishtank

 

Cheers,

SD

[Nervous_Dog]

When someone asks you a question, instead of saying yes, all you do is make a short grunt noise! God I hated that when I first came, and now I do it!

 

DPG