Breakfast with she who must be obeyed before she heads off for work.
As usual, she worries about things more than she should, and is currently fretting about the red shirt debacle in Bangkok. What if the country descends into civil war, where would we go? My view was that we would go nowhere and our condo would be as safe as anywhere else; especially as “civil war” would most likely consist of army factions fighting each other in a localised way. and the locales would not include the street outside our condo.
“But imagine if you still lived and worked” in Bangkok she said.
“Life would be difficult” I admitted, given that I used to live on Wireless Road which is currently a war zone.
“Maybe your company would send you back to England” she suggested.
I had been thinking that living in Bangkok right now must be difficult, potentially dangerous, and exceedingly frustrating. But when she mentioned going back to live in England, I felt a real twinge of despair and panic.
“Never! I would refuse to go. I would rather be in Bangkok than in England”.
So, given the choice between living in a war zone in Bangkok or living in England; I would chose the former.
How about you?
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2010-05-15| Qon sayswar zone or tiny-town tallahassee? that’s a tough one. i’ll take war zone for 250, bob.
2010-05-15| genuinej saysI’m with you; in thought at least. Anywhere, with the possible exceptions of Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe, is probably better than the shite UK.
2010-05-16| Lloyd says“Maybe your company would send you back to England” she suggested.
You’d probably end up stuck at Suvarnabhumi airport as it looks like the UK airspace will be closed again… http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2010/volcano/ashconcentration/fiveday.html
At least in the UK youd get full use of your iPhone’s 3G capabilities.
Personally I’d take Bangkok war zone over Pattaya ;-)