Quote Originally Posted by Fabian
Great Thread.
Nice one Fabian.


I really loved my time running that gaff and taking folks trekking. I started out with 1500 baht in my skyrocket and ended up, years later with heaps of dosh and all manner of toys. The best thing was the folks that I met and I kept in contact with many of them for years.
Wally once posted, in response to one of my more melancholic posts, that relationships are the most important thing in life. He was so on the money with that post and I will always look back fondly on my time at that gaff as I met so many great folks. Some were bums just trying to make the most of Thailand on what little dosh they had. Some were rich and just lookin' for a good time. Others were into some pretty serious illegal shit but they all had something to offer me.
The trouble was that all but a very small few just came and went. I often wonder what happened to some of those folks but that is life I guess.

One night a bloke came in and just wanted to argue with me. He had some kind of problem with my success and drank himself stupid, all the while trying to engage me in a fight. I had a big stick behind the bar in anticipation of such an encounter but happily never had to use it. Not once. That stoopid fok drank himself to the point where he couldnt even stand up. Happily he was in the beer garden and I simply locked up at about 4 in the morning, leaving him draped in a chair.

I did re park his motorcycle for him before I went to bed though.