Bangkoktraveler Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 i dont really know too much about thailand, been plenty of times all over mind you. just muddle through somehow, i still get a buzz landing at bkk int I know one falang who went to Thailand to meet up again with his Thai wife. When he stepped off the plane in Tapei, he looked around for his wife. He panicked and called my wife who was back in the USA. My wife told him he wasn't in Thailand but Taiwan. She told him to get on the plane going to Bangkok. Surprising - he did make it to Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 I know one falang who went to Thailand to meet up again with his Thai wife. When he stepped off the plane in Tapei, he looked around for his wife. He panicked and called my wife who was back in the USA. My wife told him he wasn't in Thailand but Taiwan. She told him to get on the plane going to Bangkok. Surprising - he did make it to Thailand. i'm not that clueless!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Phil, I suspect that tale is apocryphal - no-one could be that stupid. You would have to totally ignore everything from the check-in counter to the pilots announcements ,,,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Still, there is the verified story of a guy years ago who got on a plane in Los Angeles to go to Oakland and after a while wondered why it was taking so long and why they were over water so much. When the flight to Aukland landed in Hawaii, the airline stuck the boob on another plane back to California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 The things google turns up... I hadn't heard of this one before. Wrong Sydney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Still, there is the verified story of a guy years ago who got on a plane in Los Angeles to go to Oakland and after a while wondered why it was taking so long and why they were over water so much. When the flight to Aukland landed in Hawaii, the airline stuck the boob on another plane back to California. I once managed to go to the wrong city in Japan (by train). I wanted to visit an institution which carried the name of a city, but it was actually located in a different town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 The Sydney stuffup is fairly well known here, but I still find that sort of thing hard to swallow. I may not know the name of every town on the planet, but I reckon I'd catch on fairly quickly that I was getting on the wrong plane. Japan would be a different hettle of fish, given that I cant read Japanese, but I seem to have survived in China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 I had a Farang colleague who thought he knew everything. He'd ridden the train north many times. One day he bought his ticket at Hua Lamphong and got on the train as usual. It wasn't until the conductor asked for his ticket that he discovered he was on the south bound train going to Hat Yai. For some reason, the north bound and south bound trains had switched tracks. If he'd bothered to read the signboard on the train he'd have known that. He had to get off and take another train back to Hua Lamphong, then wait for the evening express to Chiang Mai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 I would have gotten off at Hua Hin and had a holiday. I guess that goes a long way to explaining why I usually arrive at Swampy with 60 baht to my name ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Phil, I suspect that tale is apocryphal - no-one could be that stupid. You would have to totally ignore everything from the check-in counter to the pilots announcements ,,,,, Beleive it or not.... this story is true. Him and his wife make an interesting couple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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