Daily Moan

[ootai]

The trick to a nice day shopping with the wife is to find a nearby pub

Dill
Pub is no good to me I'm a teetotaller. If I drank alcohol then I would be deported pretty quickly.

[ootai]

Clearly a match made with love, compassion and mutual respect

panama hat
It has lasted 20 years so far and still going strong (the fighting that is)
I know she loves me as when I say anything bad to her she reminds me to be careful by saying.
"Watch what you say old man cause if you don't I won't wipe your arse for you when you can't do it yourself anymore!"

True love!!!

[ootai]

true, and ootai's bank probably has an app that will allow him to pay utilities. i know SCB does.

raycarey
Oh if life was so simple! My sim card is registered in her name and she won't link my account to it. She hers and my accounts linked to her phone so she can check on me (haha).
As if I give a shit.
Anyway she does pay over the phone quiet often but it is always a lottery and I don't want to be left sitting in the dark when the power gets switched off.

There are 2 types of people in the world those tha pay their bills when they get the bill and those that leave it as late as possible and sometimes too late.
I'm the former and she's the latter so I am always wanting to pay long before it even comes onto her radar.

[Stumpy]

The trick to a nice day shopping with the wife is to not go

FTFY Dil. Best to let her go and stay home and have a few cocktails. Then act all happy when she comes back and she tells you about all the buy 1 get 1 free deals she did to save money.....

[HuangLao]

After resisting as much as I could due to them changing where everything is stacked, I reluctantly had to go back to Tesco Lotus yesterday and what happens I bloody lost it at the checkout! Every month for ages I have been paying the electricity bill there at the checkout with no issues.
BUT now they wanted an ID.
No have will my Thai driving licence suffice?
No need ID!
No have will my Passport suffice?
No need ID!
I don't f**k**g have an ID!

Do Thai people understand that foreigners don't have a Thai ID card?

That's it I will go west now instead of east and shop at Big C until they give me the shits.

[ootai]

In the end I really couldn't give a toss about how I have to do shit it just annoyed me that I had to find out that something else had changed at Tesco.
I must be getting old and set in my ways because it appears I don't like change.

As for my missus she is firstly a woman and a Thai and then my wife so I stuffed no matter what.
She always reckons I am telling her what to do when I give advice.
When I ask what is her opinion or what are we doing I get the usual vague responses that ends up with me doing the wrong thing.
I keep telling her 20 years you have been trying to change me and not succeeded so if you are as smart as you say give up trying

Sometimes you just gotta suck it up.

Fork me I'm starting to sound like terry57, god forbid!

[Stumpy]

ootai's bank probably has an app that will allow him to pay utilities. i know SCB does.

You can set up your water bill on auto pay if you have an SCB acct. You can do the same with electricity through BKK Bank. As I said in another post, they get your phone number and I get a line message that money was deducted from my acct for PEA and how much. Same for water. Both have apps for your phone as well. Its too bad that you can't pay both utilities through one bank but each has their own banking acct.

[OhOh]

Is being on the yellow book all you need?

I wasn't aware, or told, I would be getting one. It came as part of the yellow book handover. An additional ID photo taken at the district office against the height panel, the card was swiped through the office computer and handed over with the yellow book. I'm not sure what advantages it gives the foreigner, possibly at police/army road checks.

As Luigi states, mine is valid until death, as opposed to a set time limit for Thais.

Just pay the elecricity bill at the PEA office.

but now it might have to b back to PEA to pay as you suggest.

ootai's bank probably has an app

You can set up your water bill on auto pay if you have an SCB acct. You can do the same with electricity through BKK Bank.

All these options were previously available and convenient for some, I've used the 7/11 payment procedure for years.

The rules seem to have changed, i.e. A standard blue/black Thai ID card is compulsory at 7/11 and Tesco to pay utility bills.

Not the non chipped, foreigners, pink, Thai ID card. Apparently it is not compulsory that the Thai citizen whose card is used and possibly the account holder, be physically present.

Whether that new procedure will apply to any apps that were previously available from your bank/utility, has yet to be determined.

As the PEA Electric bill was delivered, left in the pole box, today. There doesn't seem to be any new red warnings on the bill.

I will try the PEA route tomorrow. With my wife's ID card tucked in my pocket, to be unveiled if asked for.

More importantly, why didn't MK inform us/post this important Thai news?

[panama hat]

Fork me I'm starting to sound like terry57, god forbid!

. . . you're doomed!!!

[Stumpy]

I've used the 7/11 payment procedure for years.

Early on I did that but hated having to remember to go as I didn't frequent 7/11's much and then sometimes I would stop to get something and go "Ahh shit, I forgot the bill at home"

The apps and auto pay is quite nice. I never even think about the bills anymore. I mean I only have the same 3 each month.

[jabir]

Makro sells gondolas?

Whodathunkit?

Aw, Nev, surely these things have reached Oz?

[jabir]

..If I was smart like some people here I would multi quoye but I haven't learned how to do that so I will just increase my post count by answering each individually/

Post a step by step multi-quote pictorial for dummies when you figure it out; tia.

[jabir]

panama hat
It has lasted 20 years so far and still going strong (the fighting that is)
I know she loves me as when I say anything bad to her she reminds me to be careful by saying.
"Watch what you say old man cause if you don't I won't wipe your arse for you when you can't do it yourself anymore!"

True love!!!

That's worth keeping in mind, shit does happen.

[Riely]

The trick to a nice day shopping with the wife is to find a nearby pub

Don't drink much now so I try and find one with a tool shop or hardware near so I'm not dragged through the tedium of shopping, or worse, paying for a relative's shopping who will pay me back later. Pfffttt, that never happens.

[bowie]

I'm one of the fortunate few - give the boss lady cash money, point to the rout tua commuter van, and let her go at it free rein alone.

She's a spendthrift in the first place, built in limitation - she can only carry so much, also has to lug dinner and dessert fruits, so, she'll hit the markets alone and I'll veg out with four or five hours of quiet "my" time.

Highly recommended for all.

[OhOh]

she can only carry so much

How very true.

[OhOh]

who will pay me back later.

I am certainly offered much "food" in recompense. The various fruits fresh from the trees, bananas usually need some "seasoning", I adore. The "prepared" meals reluctantly.

[Neverna]

Aw, Nev, surely these things have reached Oz?

I've no idea. I was just surprised you can buy them in Makro in Thailand.

Or did you mean something else?

[jabir]

I posted a pic which disappeared, let's try again...

[jabir]

Oh well, 1 from 3 decided to stay...

[Neverna]

Well thanks, but I can't make out what's in the picture because it's a small, low quality image but never mind, I will assume you meant something else that goes by the same name as gondola.

[cyrille]

I posted a pic which disappeared, let's try again...

You really shouldn't have.

[panama hat]

she can only carry so much

Some would say she's been carrying you for years!

Boom-Tish!!!!!

Thank you, thank you ladies and gentlemen, very kind.

I'm here every Thursday and twice on Sundays - Panama Hat Comedy Gold

[bowie]

Some would say she's been carrying you for years!

Yea, 'bout 25, God Bless Her - worth her weight and then some - hit the lottery I did.

[NamPikToot]

Dill Pub is no good to me I'm a teetotaller. If I drank alcohol then I would be deported pretty quickly.

its a shame the On Nut beer garden has shut, you'd have been a shoe in on a meet up Ootai, there's some right punchy fookers on TD.