This last weekend has seen a number of fierce storms pass over Pattaya, and one was in progress as we headed up to our condo in the lift last night.
Two floors from home and a strike right in front of us produced a massive fizzing crack and a bright shaft of lightning. The instinctive reaction from she who must be obeyed was to let out a loud shriek and frantically grab hold of me for reassurance. My instinctive reaction was to shriek at an even higher pitch than her, because the body part she had grabbed did not take kindly to being gripped tight by a panic-stricken wife. She let out another shriek, this time of apology and we both fell about laughing.
“Well, that’s something you can’t put in the blog”, she said, in what I interpreted as being a challenging voice. I love a challenge.