My Thai Story by Lilburne Guy

Author:Lilburne, Guy [Lilburne, Guy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: autobiography, Guy Lilburne, Patong, travel, adventure, Romance, culture shock, Phuket, true story, Jee, Thailand, thai, Isaan
Publisher: Bangkokbooks.com
Published: 2010-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

The day went along but as it did the problem between me and the big ginger man was growing. He was getting more and more drunk and his eyes were looking out under half closed eye lids heavy with alcohol. His wife probably wasn’t helping things because she kept coming up and talking to me and telling me that her husband wanted me to sit with him. He had started speaking loudly, asking me across the crowd which girls are beautiful. He kept pointing out different girls and shouting

“Farang, khao suay mai?” (Foreigner, is she beautiful?)

This was just rude and went on for far too long, and I was sure by now everyone must have noticed there was a problem, but nobody seemed too. When I sat down, I sat down at my usual concrete table and I always made sure that I didn’t have my back to him, I wanted to make sure I could see him. He motioned me over with his hand, we were looking eye to eye and I just shook my head. He smiled a condescending smile and raised his whisky glass towards me; I couldn’t bring myself to respond. It was obvious that he was just testing my metal. I guessed that there was some deep seated jealousy he had of farangs. Maybe he was jealous of their money or maybe he was jealous because his wife had probably slept with 1000’s of them.

I can get on with anyone, and usually do but this idiot was ruining my day. He was a drunken bully and he was rude and disrespectful to me, Jee and her family. A lot of things were going through my mind. I had read somewhere that as a Farang you should never drink with Thai’s because they can get very aggressive in drink and where we in The West fight to win, they fight to kill you.

This man, I thought, wanted to fight me. I didn’t want to cause any offence or embarrassment to Jee or her family and I didn’t want anyone to think I had ‘jai rawn’ (a hot heart), which is a criticism a lot of Thai people have about Farangs, but this man had been provoking me all day. Trying to put me down or belittle me in front of everyone, impose his authority over me. I don’t know why but he had taken an instant dislike to me. I have been a Police Officer for twenty six years and I knew well the smell of trouble, and this was it.

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