Dear Mr. Godec
@USAmbThailand
my beautiful wife is on her way to your office this morning. Please grant her a tourist visa to visit the family. God knows she deserves it.
We are simple Udon coffee farmers, dog people and NY merchant seaman.
Dear
@USConsChiangMai
WED at 8:00 AM you will be visited by Isaan's forward-thinking hard-working-est most spell-binding coffee farmer and part time Buddhist nun, my beautiful wife Wilailak. Kindly grant her simple powerful wish to travel once to the U.S.
Return proof attached
"OK your papers are in order. Husband's wages look sufficient. You've traveled abroad before, good. Married 3 years. Wait what? You're an actual Isaan farmer? Visa denied."
Second denial in 4 years. Consultants didn't get a different result.
Dear Mr. Godec
@USAmbThailand
my beautiful wife is on her way to your office this morning. Please grant her a tourist visa to visit the family. God knows she deserves it.
We are simple Udon coffee farmers, dog people and NY merchant seaman.
There are no cane field fires in our Isaan county this year. Zero. Local sugar factories "Gum Pat Wa Bi" and "Nam Tan Udon" no longer accept burnt product. Police are enforcing ban.
My buddy exited ASQ a week ago. His internet Thai girlfriend eagerly awaiting his release turned out to be a Nigerian (in Nigeria). We, his friends, are shocked.
Happy anniversary my beautiful bat-shit spell-casting machete-wielding Jack guzzling silicone cyborg country Isaan wife. 'Til death do us part. In a shallow grave in a fit of passion.
Appendix surgical removal, 4 days private room hospital stay, all the trimmings: $480 (16,000 B).
Thailand's healthcare system is a crown jewel. I'm speechless.
@SangratTanee
1 American football, 12 mason jars, a case of Old Spice, size 16 shoes for
@BkkGreg
, a new iPhone for a Thai wife, and enough makeup for all of Na Na. Let's do this.
An important rite of passage for greenhorn deckhands: go stand on the bow in foul weather with tin foil in each hand so I can calibrate the radar.
*there is no such calibration
"Yes hello security? There's a white guy with a mullet and a Slayer t-shirt and a stripper in the lobby bar."
"Uh yes m'aam they are in the presidential suite."
She boiled successful marriage down to bare elements, "You do what you want to do for happy, I'm do what I want to do for happy. Never talking bad. Give me the time. Trust me. Just be good wife and husband together."
I find no fault. It's Isaan Hemingway.
I got 10 jars of North Georgia moonshine, a beautiful dog, a dirt bike, and a stripper wife that's good with knives. Nowhere to go from here. We've arrived.
Yo
@RichardBarrow
where are those TAT culinary people? Fresh grilled pig, fresh jungle mushroom dip covered with hibiscus, waterfront seating, bottomless LEO. That's just breakfast.
Nong Khai is not for beginners. It's a dusty Mekong border town for die hards looking to fall off the grid or on the run. There are actual tumbleweeds.
There she goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
This crippled/disabled man has been walking the highway northeast out of Udon Thani rain or shine heat wave or hail storm collecting bottles from the ditch for as long as I have known my wife. To support his mother. Miles a day on one and a half legs and one arm. He's a lion.
Thai wife heard a female United States Coast Guard officer from traffic control on the boat radio and of course demanded to know "WHO THIS GIRL? YOU TALKING WITH WHO?"
Here is my beautiful Thai wife bashing some salted water buffalo testicle skin she roasted on an open fire with a sledge hammer. Because that is a thing normal people do before they consume it.