A recent conversation between a friend and a pharmacist in a country not to be named (it is not Thailand):
Friend: Do you have any cipro?
Pharmacist: Yes. Which would you want?
Friend: What?
Pharmacist: We have the Indian kind or the German one?
Friend: Oh. German, please.
Pharmacist: But the Indian is much cheaper.
Friend: I w.a.n.t t.h.e G.e.r.m.a.n v.e.r.s.i.o.n
Pharmacist: German very expensive!
Friend: That's fine!!!
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10 June 2010
27 August 2009
Just don't use the word "alarm"
A colleague called in late this morning, confessing to having forgotten to set his alarm clock last night. Too amused to let him get away with it, I composed a list of
10 Better Excuses for Why You are Late
- The A/C broke down and I had to take three Benadryl pills to pass out in the heat.
- I was rowing down the klong to work when I got swamped by a speeding fishtail boat's wake.
- The BTS was held up by a royal motorcade.
- The taxi took me to the wrong place way out of town.
- Unexpected visitors knocked on the door at 3am.
- The motorcycle taxi tried to overcharge me and I had to hide until tempers settled down.
- The water pipe burst and no one would come until 10am.
- My last fish died and I had to bury it.
- The maid accidentally threw out the fish and I had to dig it out of the trash.
- My soi flooded and no one could get in or out.
Sadly, each of these can and have happened to many of us. As for the fish, it's an inside joke- he bought a whole school of fish in a baggie in the market and most died within a couple of weeks. He's down to his last original one right now.
10 Better Excuses for Why You are Late
- The A/C broke down and I had to take three Benadryl pills to pass out in the heat.
- I was rowing down the klong to work when I got swamped by a speeding fishtail boat's wake.
- The BTS was held up by a royal motorcade.
- The taxi took me to the wrong place way out of town.
- Unexpected visitors knocked on the door at 3am.
- The motorcycle taxi tried to overcharge me and I had to hide until tempers settled down.
- The water pipe burst and no one would come until 10am.
- My last fish died and I had to bury it.
- The maid accidentally threw out the fish and I had to dig it out of the trash.
- My soi flooded and no one could get in or out.
Sadly, each of these can and have happened to many of us. As for the fish, it's an inside joke- he bought a whole school of fish in a baggie in the market and most died within a couple of weeks. He's down to his last original one right now.
03 September 2008
The state of the news back at home
An email in my inbox this morning from AE:
Let's just say he had me sniggering for the entire morning at work. Count on our trust news providers.. For the record, no people. It isn't. It has been relatively quiet. Not all authorities allowed under declaration of state of emergency has been applied. And hopefully won't be.
Hi J!
I saw an article today that made it seem as though Thailand is becoming the next Kenya!! How are you doing?
Let's just say he had me sniggering for the entire morning at work. Count on our trust news providers.. For the record, no people. It isn't. It has been relatively quiet. Not all authorities allowed under declaration of state of emergency has been applied. And hopefully won't be.
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