Ask a stupid question...

[somtamslap]

The old lady at my local shop whom I thought was a comparative genius because she can add up the price of a bottle of water and a bottle of beer without having to consult a calculator, proved me to be horrendously wrong yesterday.

As I sat sipping a bottle of Leo looking or perhaps howling at the moon, she detached herself from the regular questioning she oft bores me with of an evening..what have you eaten and all that shite....and came up with an enquiry which left me feeling awkward and slightly abashed.

"Do you have the moon in your country?"

When I saw she wasn't taking the piss, I replied in the negative. No, I told her..I think its just Thailand that has the moon...and she proudly went back to grazing on her betelnut parcel..

Am I alone in such lines of questioning?

[beazalbob69]

A friends Ex Thai wife asked a similar question when she came to the US "Is that the same moon we have in Thailand?" Amazing Thailand! is right.

[barbaro]

"Have you eaten yet?"

[panama hat]

"Have you eaten yet?"

Not quite in the same vein as 'Do you have the same moon', is it?

'Have you eaten yet' is actually a very common greeting in Asia

[crippen]

I get 'Where you go' as you arrive somewhere??

[somtamslap]

'Have you eaten yet'

and

'Where you go'

were both official ways to say hello in Thai before 1939..or somet like that.

[Gipsy]

A Thai, just of the plane, first time ouside LOS, wandering in a clean european seaside city: "You have no electricity here?", minutes later followed by "And no plastic bags?".

[StrontiumDog]

[Mr Brown]

that 'bai nai' is just annoying

mind you own fucking business

[Attilla the Hen]

Once took a bar-girl to Ko Samui in the early eighties.
The moon was visible in the day time.
I remarked that the moon looked nice. She said it wasn't the moon. I asked her what she thought it was.
She said she didn't know, but, everyone knew that the moon only comes out at night.
I sent her packing.

[StrontiumDog]

Great stories...but you have to wonder, how is it these ladies con western men out of so much money, so often...

[English Noodles]

that 'bai nai' is just annoying mind you own fucking business

Don't answer, just tilt you head back 1 inch pointing your chin forward and carry on walking. It's an acceptable reply.

[English Noodles]

"Do you have the moon in your country?"

Maybe she's unsure of what country you come from.

[barbaro]

In a tourist area: "Where are you from?" First then ever asked by this person. I know it's an ice breaker, but.....

Answer: Earth.

[CRSD]

In a tourist area: "Where are you from?" First then ever asked by this person. I know it's an ice breaker, but.....

Answer: Earth.

Answer: My mother