A train ride, a bus ride, a thieving taxi driver and a lunatic: A Sunday with Slap

**Bangyai** · 12-03-2013, 04:34 PM

There are currently 13 people viewing this thread !. Thats the most I've seen for a long time. Well done Slap !

By the way, thats a pretty gay bag ! Not yours is it ?

**somtamslap** · 12-03-2013, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by Bangyai

By the way, thats a pretty gay bag ! Not yours is it ?

Of course it is, Bangers. Needed to match me Sunday best.

**crocman** · 12-03-2013, 05:12 PM

What a luverly way to spend a Sunday with the family.

Better hope your tin lids never discover hang-gliding

**Happy As Larry** · 12-03-2013, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by harrry

beautified by their station masters probably at their own expense

Yes I believe that to be true. Certainly is the case at our local stop

**somtamslap** · 12-03-2013, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by Happy As Larry

What a luverly way to spend a Sunday with the family.

In retrospect. Certainly nice to look back at.

**DrAndy** · 12-03-2013, 07:04 PM

memories are often better than reality

**harrry** · 12-03-2013, 09:15 PM

Well the kids grow up quickly so do lots more new things with them. In a few years memories will be all you have left and they are worth it.

**somtamslap** · 12-03-2013, 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by harrry

Well the kids grow up quickly so do lots more new things with them.

They're still consoling themselves with Barbie DVDs. The choo-choo train was evidently a harrowing ordeal..

**Cujo** · 12-03-2013, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by somtamslap

Originally Posted by harrry

Well the kids grow up quickly so do lots more new things with them.

They're still consoling themselves with Barbie DVDs. The choo-choo train was evidently a harrowing ordeal..

**patsycat** · 13-03-2013, 01:30 AM

Where did you find the blonde one

**Satonic** · 13-03-2013, 01:34 AM

It's a wig patsy, she is scared one day someone might find the link between her and the 'slap'.

**somtamslap** · 13-03-2013, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by Satonic

she is scared one day someone might find the link between her and the 'slap'.

Poor lass. What a stigma that would be..

**DrAndy** · 13-03-2013, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by harrry

In a few years memories will be all you have left and they are worth it.

where did that come from?

I am sure our resident philosopher SomTam will be able to enlighten you on that

he hasn't even got a memory

**somtamslap** · 13-03-2013, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by DrAndy

where did that come from?

I think Harry was feeling a touch sentimental. On the scotch were you 'Azzer?

**DJ Pat** · 13-03-2013, 08:55 AM

The baby snatcher could well be the Thai version of old 'Scotch Harry' - Him out of Minder, the pathetic petty thief with a penchant for cock ups

**Necron99** · 13-03-2013, 09:30 AM

All the people looking at you in those picks look like they want to kill you, including, I suspect, the children.

**somtamslap** · 13-03-2013, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by Necron99

All the people looking at you in those picks look like they want to kill you

They were all very pleasant actually - apart from the loonies. I was asked by numerous people if I wanted a seat. I may have looked on the verge on expiry.

**DJ Pat** · 13-03-2013, 09:46 AM

The one train a day into Bangkok from Pattaya trundles along at about 3 1/2 hours to the capital. For 30 Baht you can see just as many loonies, oddballs and wrinkled old somtam sellers. Very scenic journey apart from that.

**somtamslap** · 13-03-2013, 09:52 AM

I've written a story for my book about getting on the free train from Bangers to Isaan. I was drunk, so was everyone else..it was erm, colourful, can we say.

**Butterfly** · 13-03-2013, 09:58 AM

this thread is quite scary actually, hopefully it's all fiction, not reality

**DJ Pat** · 13-03-2013, 10:13 AM

I was hammered on a train to Si sakiet a few years ago, much the amusement of the other passengers, one kid shouted ''Mr Bean'' as I lurched to the toilet for the tenth time only an hour into the journey

**somtamslap** · 13-03-2013, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by Butterfly

hopefully it's all fiction, not reality

Absolutely true. But as I mentioned, the baby snatcher seemed to be taken with a pinch of salt by most people, so he may just be a harmless spastic known to the railway authorities - but at the same time, who wants to be on a train with that shit going on.

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

as I lurched to the toilet for the tenth time only an hour into the journey

As long as you don't have to do a number two, then that's OK. Which brings me to my next tip: Don't eat the free breakfast. Approximately 30 seconds from gullet to anus.

**harrry** · 13-03-2013, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by somtamslap

Originally Posted by DrAndy

where did that come from?

I think Harry was feeling a touch sentimental. On the scotch were you 'Azzer?

No.... I do not drink,my wife won't let me

Sentimental maybe. I could not help thiking back to some trips with my daughter. The Hatyai Penang train when she was 4,from perth to Cairns when she was 6 many in India when she was about 8 including a 6 months railpass. By the time she got to high school she had her own things to do and now is far away in Switzerland.
As I said memories stay.
It may be sentimental but that's not something I am ashamed of.

**somtamslap** · 13-03-2013, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by harrry

It may be sentimental but that's not something I am ashamed of.

Of course not.

Got any pics of your travels, Harry?

**Latindancer** · 13-03-2013, 10:44 AM

PERTH to CAIRNS ??? Jaysus ! That must be 4,500 Ks ! And that's taking the shortcut !

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