Life with the Thai Wife

[urleft]

Martin,

Thank you for taking such good care of my sister.  You are lucky to have her. 

[urleft]

One thing that us expats have to get used to is taking shoes off before entering the home and a lot of times a business.  What I have not gotten used to is that Thais then consider these "shoes" community property.  I keep a pair of flip flops at both the front and back, I get aggravated when I head out and the "shoes" are not there.  It seems that someone has decided to use them, and if their shoes are available it is likely they are women's sized which don't fit my feet. 

It even gets better when the TW or maid decide to wash something outside it becomes efficient to get my "shoes" wet instead of theirs. 

At least in the US casually using someone's shoes is not done, of course we don't leave then at the front door either.


A side effect of taking the shoes off is that my heel calluses get well formed and blackened.  Funny how after 2 weeks in the states it clears up. 
 
 

[Freddy]

+1.
Yep, that one winds me up. Wouldn't dream of using someone else's shoes.
What's worse is when they break them. Wife's Brother in Law is fairly big fella with bigger feet than me. 2nd day I was here he thought OK to squeeze into a brand new pair of Haviana flip flops and broke them. Wasn't impressed.
I now get the 89 baht rubber sandal things from Big C for the garden etc and shoes I go out on get taken off, carried into house and kept in cupboard.

[iammike]

5555 same problem here, but fortunately my shoe size is 46 so nobody borrows mine, EXCEPT for the niece (who is 2 years old) when she wants to go sailing

[fishy]

The low life cousin brother came for a visit the other day wearing one thong... I said hello to be polite and mentioned sorry to see you broke a thong.... He said no no no I found one.....!

[Freddy]

And B****r Me. Head outside at 0615 for my morning coffee and my shoes have gone. And the wife wonders why I get pissed off when her family visit.
Keith - your fault for bringing this up yesterday.

[urleft]

LOL, as I walked outside yesterday afternoon my shoes were missing, I saw them on the maid as she was washing the car port (getting my shoes wet), and I also saw her shoes (which I cannot fit into) where my shoes were.

[davureborn]

After a family visit I discovered two pairs of working shoes were missing, I had to wear by going to BigC shoes to water the garden and then go buy some more.
What happened was that an old lady sat in the car for 300Km and then discovered she had forgotten to take shoes. They dont ask, do they?

[jivvy]

2 pair missing?
Did she wear 1 pair on her feet and the other pair on her hands?

[Freddy]

Shoes located on wife's sister. That's another one not talking to me. Bad Farang. Happy days.
dont know why I get angry over a 89baht pair of rubber sandals but ..............

[olavhome]

Its the principle.
3 days ago we had installed door for garage.
People used my hammer.
Next day notice hammer gone.
Wife called - sorry sorry will bring back.
Nothing happened yet.
Wife called.
Sorry,, been to hospital with wife- got baby boy.
But what I cant understand, they were 4 People, why cant one of the others bring back ??-Or have they all been fathers :-)
On the other hand : Remember about 15 years ago had party at work and a friend left for home at 02 night without shoes. Norway october 17th :-)

[urleft]

We just aquired some property and getting it fixed up, the gate was very hard to open.  Since a lot of maintenance had been put off I said just replace the 2 wheels.  Well the TW came in and said she was told the wheels had been replaced.  So I explained to her the Alabama way of fixing things, finally had to show her on the internet.  She used the model and the gate is fixed. 

American ingenuity at its best.

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As with the initial post I have discovered the TW also has a blindspot, it is wherever the the vehicle fule gauge is located.  I got on the scooter yesterday and was greatful I was able to make to the gas station.  Last week I literally ran out of gas before I left the car park. 

I think this may be a Thai culture thing as the gas guage is as useless as turn signals and rearview mirrors.  A friend of mine's TW lent his scooter to a family member, they came back without the scooter telling where it was located when they ran out of gas. 

When I go to the US and come back one of the first things I have to do is gas up all the vehicles, and luckily they have so far left me enough gas to get the 2 KM to the station. 

[urleft]

As with the initial post I have discovered the TW also has a blindspot, it is wherever the the vehicle fule gauge is located.  . 

Noticed the spelling error too late, but I could read it fine. 

[Starman]

Nothing to do with blindspots and all to do with money.

Why would she want to spend her own money when she knows she doesn't have to.