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That standard was I was suppose to let it go? I was told pretty much that the guy doesn't have the money and that he needs to feed his family. I was made to feel because I was a farang that if someone stole from me that it was okay for me to loose it. The Thais don't seem to understand or care that the money lost affected my family. In another situation I used the court system only to be told later by another lawyer as a Farang the system in these situation was useless, you should have stuck with previous choice and pay the mafia to knock him off.
Regardless, how much we tell Thais that we are not all loaded in cash and we are just like Thais, some have it, some don't and there are many in between. It doesn't sink in! They ask to borrow money and promise to pay back when they have no means to do so and when you question them they are offended and loose face. I certainly don't feel Thais hate me but the closes I could come is that they feel because we are here or live here they are entitled to cheat or ask us to pay more. Just this year I was at Royal Garden with my son and his friend they wanted to see the Wax museum. Jack Spirro, of Pirates of Carribean told the cashier to charge me Farang price. I told the guy " Ding Dong " I have live here for nearly 10 years at what point do you think I could pay Thai price " another fruit loop Thai shot back at me and said " if you have been here 10 years you should have a Thai driver license " I show him one and he didn't say a thing then I lecture all of them in front of everyone that I'm just like you! That when you bleed your blood is red so is mines.
I don't disagree that no race has a lock on rudeness and have seen many Farangs act poorly but I don't think this topic is about rudeness. While Thai men walk away from there responsibility to their kids because they can't control their little head but when a Farang does it is not acceptible. I have heard more than my share of Thai women sitting around in discussion as to how get a Farang and what you should expect from them. The first thing they seem to compare with each other is how much they are getting from the sucker. It's like a game or a badge of honor as to how much one gets they have a school of their own. They have a expectation that the man should take care of them if he is a Farang but that standard doesn't apply to a Thai.
For years I have been told that I need to be 100% Thai, This would never be asked of a white guy because his skin can't be changed but because I look like one of them they have no problem with the request. I have sat with so many Thai girls asking me how to get a Farang? What do they like? Teach me. I sit now and just smile like a Thai man smiling and drinking my Sansome. Saying anything or giving too much advice sooner or later they get upset or loose face. I'm Chinese and have been throughout China and never have ever experience so much loosing face from a culture like the Thais. When I first came on this board I was told by a long standing member who got kicked off that saying the culture is backwards is being kind.
As Fon Tok noted there are worst places and Thailand overall is pretty good but stay with just the pussy. But when you live here that is easier said than done the more you become entrence into the country it can sour you. I have been but the last few years I am trying to reinvent myself and I'm slowly transforming myself to many of the Thai ways and one of them is just smile and try not to let it get to me. Now I do as Thai men do let your little head do the leading. I use to feel guilty but now I have no problem fucking a Thai mans wife if she wants a shoulder to cry on because he is out being a butterfly. I have been in bars and after they hear my story have given me what I call simpity fucks while I'm getting sucked off I thinking only in Thailand LOS!
I have committed myself to never allowing this country and people to beat me down or take away my joy for life. I have allow those that have wrong me in the past to move on except for one and god help him and his family the day I find him. Meantime I am transforming and I'm becoming their worse nightmare. I'm a Farang that knows too much and look like them and that has many plus with Thai women but in the end I am no better or worse than you guys except this ATM has limitation. The women believe what they want and I always tell them the truth " I have no money to take care of you " they believe what they want but when I'm done I pay them and thank them. I walk away knowing that I still treat everyone the same with respect until they deserve otherwise. I have been jaded and I guard myself and say very little because my life is in Thailand.
They don't hate us but boy they sure think we owe them something that isn't expected from their own people?
Enjoy and thanks for allowing me to vent. LBM[/QUOTE]Hi LittleBigMan,
I just met a local girl today who just wanted to meet and just be friends first. I met her here at one of the Mall in Bangkok. I first we went to the Starsbucks and we talked for a bit. Then she tells me that she has to go and buy a dress for her brother wedding and hair curly iron. She asked me if I wanted to go with her. I tell her to be with her would be my pleasure. We go to another Mall and she goes on to tell me that all of the foreigners come to shop here. That is the first hint that I get as to what is coming up. Oh, before I go she STATES rather strongle that we are only friends and nothing else. I tell her I agree with her. We go to many of the store looking for a dress first, she finds one but tells me,"Dress cost to much money". We then go to a place where they sell the hair curling iron, she looks at it and then say to me that it cost too much. We then proceed to go where the cell outlets are and she looking at Iphones. She say again they cost to much and she does not have the money. I was lost at this point and I asked myself is she expecting for me to pay for the Dress. So I like a sucker go Ahead and pay for the Dress, Hair Curly Iron and a women pocketbook that she wanted. All I got for it was a thank you at the train station and I will see you some time later. I said to myself that is what I get for being nice. Before she left I asked her can I come and visit you at your house. She tells me that I can not visit her house because parents would get mad. My one question to you ans since you know culture, was that true what she told me that I could visit because of her parents?
I think I am being railroaded but if I am I will take this as lesson learned.