What's your soi like? Crazy like mine or not?

[Spitfire]

Ok everyone,

Give you a snap-shot of the soi I live on(not HH, Korat). Small soi, 6 houses, 3 on both sides. My house is in the middle on one side. On the right is a women who lives on her own(never seen her since I been there really), on the left is the ex-army type who is the middle-aged action man, goes parachuting, has the WW2 jeep, flys the micro-lights over the estate as low as possible(just over the electricity pylons etc), waves at me from up-above sort of stuff.

Opposite left is a guy with 6 kids(all under 13) who constantly smiles all the time, not a quiet senario. However, his father-in-law(he's about 60-65) with little hair and a bandanna on sporting a long white tash, turns up to his house on a Honda Phantom looking like 'Fu Man Chu' on a hairdressers Harley with the tassles.

Directly opposite is a 45 year old Thai women married to a Japanese guy. The Thai women gets pissed-up beyond belief everyday and has crazy arguments with her husband and kid(16 years old) often. If she's not doing that then she's watching soap operas on TV on the porch in a chair that resembles a 'Ming the Merciless" thone. She steals the mangoes from my garden when Mrs Spitfire or me are not there or at work. Her husand has a samuri sword on the porch aswell that he cleans everyday at 7am as does the usual Japanese stuff.

The only other house on the soi(opposite left) is the local shop couple but I'll give them credit, as the couple there are very nice and seem to be worried about if I'm OK. Not sure if this is because they they are worried about me or just embarressed about the others on the soi.

Sometimes I walk out of my house and laugh all the way to work/mall/friends house etc.

Suppose I'm asking if there's any other good stories out there about your sois from you gents/ladies or is it just me(hopefully not).

Maybe it's just the TV and this is all completely normal. Been here a while but it makes me laugh.

It would be good to hear others stories aswell.

[miked]

sounds a wonderful place to live. keep me posted if a house comes up for sale.
miked

[Arcadian]

sounds lioke the average street in some parts of London

[Spitfire]

Well, looking for funny stories rather than wise-arsed comment dude, or is that the order of the day now, wasn't a while back.

[Cowtown Comedy]

Spitfire, I was through Korat for the first time on Friday. Very impressive city

[PeteC]

There's a Thai sitcom on a few times a week in the afternoons named 'labert' (the bomb) more or less. Revolves around one Thai neighborhood and shops and residents there. Really a funny show even if you can't undersand all the Thai. So it appears the Thai's are great fans of daily soi life as well, and the comedy that comes from it/them.

Where I live now is sedate, very sedate!, as was the last place I lived in north Pattaya. Not much going on, just Thai and farang business people who keep pretty much to themselves.

Not so where I lived in Pattaya 1993-98. 6 houses, 3-3 on each side of a dead end soi. Guy across the street was Thai and gay. Only came from Bangkok on the weekends with a few lovely young men and did strange things like run around the yard in togas.

Next to him was a very nice old Dutch gentleman named John who was actually a POW in a Nazi camp during WWII. Very frugal guy, no phone, no fax etc. He used to ask me to fax things to Indonesia for him. He got sick and I taped many classical CD's for him to listen to as he had no CD machine. He passed away after I left but learned he left about 3 million USD to his one son in Holland. One would never have guessed he had that kind of money.

Next to him was a guy named Stig who was either Swedish or Norwegian, I don't know. Loved the women and the younger the better. House filled with many each and every night during winter here. He went back to EU during the summer months there. Had two cat killing dogs who terrorized the neighborhood cats and would actually swipe them off a stone wall when they were sleeping and chew them to bits.

On the other side of the street was a French guy who complained about everything and beat his Thai wife daily. They found him one day beaten badly in a Pattaya bar area. Seems that justice was done. He never came back to the house and the Thai wife went home shortly thereafter.

Next was a Swiss chef guy, a really nice guy and a pilot for some airline before he decided to become a professional chef. Must have been good as I think the Dusit Resort hired him as head chef. Fell in love too quickly though with a real good looker who used to have her Thai boyfriends over to the house as soon as he left for work in the mornings. They split after 6 months and everyone left.

House was then occupied by a German dentist who made EU style false teeth. He still has a thriving business in Pattaya to this day. Everytme you talked to him though, or laughed, he would try to get a look into your mouth. Grassroots business approach I guess..LOL.

Last house as owned by Bangkok Thai's who only came once every 6 months to clean it. Never tried to rent it at all. No idea what their thinking was. Probably bought for 400K Baht and sold a few years ago for 3 million. Pete

[Spitfire]

It is CC,

Just looking for general funny stories from everywhere, which might have been a mistake.

Many thanks for your reply, respect dude. All the best.

[miked]

this will be popular. why anyone comes to thailand and lives in korat city is beyond me. i'm only talking about the city and not the area around. i get lost, the streets are all the same. the shoppings good but thats true of many places here.
to me it's the birmingham of thailand. now i suppose i have upset someone from birmingham.
miked

[Spitfire]

Mr Miked,

Not from Birmingham myself(Nottingham) and no worries, just a light-hearted thread. Korat is OK, if you talk to anyone affiliated from there on this forum(there are a few), then they will say so, big/everything available and not crazy expensive.

There are many on the forum who don't live in HH.

All the best.

[miked]

i don't live in hua hin, each to his own. nottingham is o.k. shame about the football team though.
miked

[Spitfire]

I agree Miked, shame about Watford too mate.

[Cowtown Comedy]

I do live in HH, and I think we need a truck load of happy pills send down. .

[Spitfire]

Good stuff Miked, but may I suggest before "someone" else tells us.

BTW Pete, good post.

[chelsea]

Miked Wrote

This will be popular. Why anyone comes to Thailand and lives in Korat City is beyond me. I'm only talking about the city and not the area around. I get lost, the streets are all the same. The shopping is good but that's true of many places here. To me it's the Birmingham of Thailand. Now i suppose i have upset someone from Birmingham.
miked

You probably have, they are a very sensitive bunch up there