As tomorrow is the 1st of the month I thought I would offer the following insight, as I see it, of course, I could be wrong………………
So how do you know you have won the lottery?
There are a number of simple steps to answer that question, as follows:-
1. Did YOU buy a ticket/number?
2. Did you hear a motocyke outside your house around 06:00 to 08:00 this morning?
3. Have you woken up with less money in your wallet than you went to bed with? That is less than you expected to wake up with, after forgetting you ordered another box of Leo; 20 Baht of nam keng, 2 bottles of Lao Khao for the guy down the road who kills your pigs and paying the previous weeks/nights bill!
4. Your wife/girlfriend/mia noi or whatever, has at precisely 14:20 decided that she needs to go see “her Aunt†at the other end of the village.
So now we move on to the post 15:30 phase:-
1. After sitting alone for the last hour, of course watching the ice melt in your 2nd/ 5th or whatever bottle of Chang, you suddenly here lots of whooping and cheering from the far side of the village.
2. There is the sweet sound of various motorcyke starting up.
3. Passing motorcyke all have luggage, varying from 2 beers: a glong of beers; enough nam keng to freeze Thailand and of course several bottles of 40%!
4. You call your, whatever, she/he is (no discrimination in my posts) and you get the “Mai me Sanyang†message from 12 Call. In other words there is no signal where I am. Or as we say in English “the lights are on but there is no-one inâ€.
5. Your children arrive home from school and you get the “where mummy�
6. After several hours; of course after feeding; showering; putting to bed the children. DO NOT FORGET YOURSELF at his point………lots of beer.
7. The person you love arrives home.
8. “You win the Lotteryâ€
9. “You put 30 Baht on 671 (of course you choose to do the numbers always). Shit how do I know that phrase perhaps too many trips to William Hill in a previous life.
10. So finally you get the dirty cash in your hand, we all know what they pay so I will save the explanation. But your return is the privilege of living here.
And finally…………..
You wake up on the morning of the 2nd/17th, to be informed that you had better go and “Kip Dang†at the local Mom and Dad shop. And don’t forget to give a tip to the fat lady who sells the lottery!
My god it is great here. Camelot has a lot to learn!!!