It's Whooo You Know

So it's been a while since I've last blogged. I haven't felt the urge to write one in a few weeks, maybe because I haven't thought anything was newsworthy, although a pretty newsworthy occurrence happened last Sunday.

Last Saturday Maris and I went out and had a few drinks and came back home. I left the bike out front. It was our last day on our contract for the bike. We intended on extending it a bit more because we were going to be staying for another three weeks for our Thai Language course.

I wake up in the morning to find it gone. I walk around the block looking for it in utter disbelief, it was gone. Stolen. Immediately I think, it was stolen by the private owner of the bike that rented it to me. She had to have stolen it, it was our LAST day to have the bike. Maybe she wanted to take our money and charge us for the entire bike.

I called our English friend with a thai wife. They have been our good friends here in town. He knows a lot of people who know the right people in this town. One guy, a particularly well known young thai made calls to the chop shops in town and the kids that could have done it. No response from him, so it must not have been the kids he knew. We then contacted another well known Thai in the city, the owner of the bar that the girl who rented the bike to us worked for. After hearing from our English friend that the girl is not malicious and is, frankly, too stupid to pull something like this off, we asked the owner.

Within 20 minutes we get a call back. The cops found the bike and arrested the kids who stole it. They took the front tire off and busted the lock that kept the tire turned so that it couldn't simply be wheeled away when being stolen. The girl who rented us the back had a particularly sketchy boyfriend. Nobody liked him and apparently he was pretty abusive. He was trying to convince her to take us for way more money that we owed them. The man who runs the bar, who found the bike, who is "well Known" in the town and treated with a great deal of respect basically told that guy that if they tried to rip us off, his ass would be kicked and his girlfriend would be fired and thrown out on the street (he was also the landlord of her apartment on top of the bar). Believe it or not, the bar owner is an extremely nice guy, doesn't seem like a badass, but apparently he is not scared to make himself clear physically with people. Luckily he liked us and really liked our good friend, so we got out paying 6k baht, which is roughly 200 dollars. We were expecting to pay over a 1000 so we were happy.

Because the sketchy boyfriend knew our Apartment number, I decided we should change rooms just for piece of mind. So we did, we moved into the noisiest room I have ever been in. All hours of the night it sounds like a heard of drunk elephants are moving there things in above, below and next door to us.

Our first night in the new room proved interesting in that we heard what sounded like a pretty serious domestic dispute. A woman screaming and things shattering. I lock Maris in the room and go next door to the Thai restaurant owners we had become "friends" with, and told them what was going on. The husband owner went across the street and got a policeman who owns a cel phone shop. He went up to the room and came back down and simply says "The girlfriend is the crazy one, he is not fighting her".

That apparently stopped the "fighting" and we got a good nights sleep. It has been raining for about 5 days now, preventing us from doing much. It gets very old staying in a room for 5 days, so I have taken up possibly writing a story, book, novel, who knows- something I write a beginning, middle and end to, we will see how long or short it is to decide what to call it.

We start our Thai course tomorrow. I think when we are done I am gonna take pictures of everyday things here in the neighborhood and tell you what they are, just to keep myself busy and to let you all know what we see on a day to day basis and try and give you a bit of a taste of our Thai lives.

Well that's all for now, sorry for such a long delay. Take care!

Til Next Time.

_Brock

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