oakdale160 wrote:US, I just love visualising the scene. GOM gives sweet Thai waitress a hard time and then suddenly, big LB appears and says--- can I help you, you grumpy old bastard.
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Where?HHTel wrote: Yet another thread that uses this overly used phrase "but we're a guest in their country".
dalmatiandave wrote:Not understanding the culture or not learning early on that you are always a guest here will lead to this scenario.
The day that some living here understand the phrase is the day it probably can be dropped from most conversations. It is a phrase that a lot of GOM do not hold dear! If you believe otherwise then for me you have missed the point. I am sorry it still needs to be used as obviously from this thread it is still needed.HHTel wrote:dalmatiandave wrote:Not understanding the culture or not learning early on that you are always a guest here will lead to this scenario.
Sorry your a guest, in some cases tolerated, in other cases not.dtaai-maai wrote:Well, I'm with HHTel on this one - most of the way.
I get truly hacked off with the naysayers, discontents and constant complainers, and to that extent I would say that anyone who can't hack it here and is desperate for the standards, infrastructure and behaviour of their own country should pack up and go home.
But we're not guests. The longer I live here, the more I realise that, in the eyes of the authorities, we are a tolerated necessity rather than welcome guests. After ten years I shouldn't be a guest anyway, I should be acknowledged for what I am - a permanent resident.
As for the topic itself - frankly, who cares?
If the owner is to shy to speak have her put a sign up indicating a corkage fee for bringing outside drinks in. Then when she sees the lady drinking her wine she brought from home she just adds the fee to the bill. Either the couple excepts and pays or stops going.dozer wrote:How about the incredibly frugal farangs.
My wife and I were eating at a Thai/European restaurant a few nights ago and towards the end of our meal, a farang couple came in and sat down at a table adjacent to ours. The waitress came with the menu and then returned with a small bottle of water and two glasses. I then noticed that the woman surreptitiously removed a water bottle from her handbag with what looked like red wine in it and a filled up one of the glasses and then put it down the side of the table, next to the wall.
After a few minutes, the guy got up and left the restaurant, about the same time I got up to make a phone call, leaving my wife to collect the takeaway food she had ordered. Once outside I noticed the guy coming out of the nearby Family Mart with a bottle of beer, he then proceeded to sit outside the restaurant drinking his beer.
On the way home, my wife told me that the owner of the restaurant told her, that she knows about the wine and beer thing and that they come in once or twice a week order one or sometimes two plates of food sit there for around two hours, using the wifi, and then leave with no tip. The owner says that she does not want them in her restaurant; but her English is not good, so too “shy” to say something.
I can't see how you can ever succeed in this country 
