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Was at the local village restaurant yesterday last night and it was raining.
The place was also smelling of foul water from the nearby sewer, you always get this when it rains.
Have you also noticed most restaurants get a layer of painting applied just once, when built, then never again?
Do you trust clean fresh food in your plate? Sincerely, I don't.
Whilst sitting there I noticed a few motorbikes with broken back-lights passing by, also a few without head lights and even less without any lights at all. Would you dare driving a motorbike at night without any lights on? Scaring isn't?
Then have you noticed how many wear the lifesaving helmet, how they cut the road in front of your car without looking left or right, often having disposed with both useless mirrors?
Let's move to car drivers then: some tend to push you off the road driving at 120kmh whilst speed limit is at 90. Then they wait before you at the next traffic light, when green comes they don't move, it takes them 2 minutes to speed up to some speed. If you manager to get passed them they will overtake you 5 minutes later again, having reached their previous cruise speed of 120kmh again.
Noticed the U-turns? That's fun. Suddenly they brake driving on the fast lane, yep experienced farang drivers know there is an upcoming U-turn.
But beware the bus hitting the main road coming from down-town amphur, had that happen to me a few days ago, crossed a 4 lane "express road" heading opposite direction simply cutting the oncoming traffic. Without jumping on my brakes we would have crashed. Would they fire the driver for dangerous driving?
Then you have the motorbikes driving up to you on the wrong side of the road, oh well whilst we are at it, samlors also and cars also. Special fun at night with all lights off!!
I go bicycling every morning and stopped looking around at all the trash. Soya drinks must be the most consumed food items in this country looking at all the packs you see every meter. Yes, that's 1000 empty packs a kilometer. Add the M150 bottles, plastic bags and all other packaging's and what you get? A clean place?
If we examine more important things like corruption then we really get started. Had these cops stop me on the road last week for overtaking a slow driving heavy loaded pick-up. He asked 200 baht to complement his lousy salary, poor cop. Consider the real thieves then who intervene to mediate the billion baht contracts to build the airport or the new village road for the small fee of 10% only.
No need to talk about the Thai women who managed to get it all for free from the farang, we have read too many of these stories on this and other web boards and forget many have happy lives with their Thai wives. A few murders down Ranong etc we just need to live with.
No doubt I can go on many pages describing the pitfalls available to the farang over here, I will leave that to your whining guys.
Two days from now I will be riding the Paris Metro/bus one ticket for all system and compare that with the Bangkok public transportation system or lack of it, jeez, shaking my head just by the thought of that. Imagine all the restaurants, real food and junk food available at every corner as compared to fired rice and noodle soups stalls. Dreaming of good cheap wines and supermarkets full of all kinds of meat, vegetables, cheese, ready made meals and much more.
Please feel free to come wish me out tomorrow at Swampy around 5pm, row Q checking in business class and having a glass of champagne before taking off. I will be that ugly fat farang.
