Q & A with Aging One (his asian experiences)

[kingwilly]

And to both AO and Kingwilly back on page 12 I think, (or a mate of Kingwillys if such person were around) The first time I was wrongfully arrested I too dropped to my knee's and fainted like a bitch.

page 12 ? I only get 9 pages for this whole thread here. (but i think my settings are for 40 posts per page. default is 10 or 20.....)

Best to quote actual post numbers.

But what an interesting story. I appreciate people like MeMock and AO writing it....

[The Fresh Prince]

Crap, alright, I'll look for it. Gonna have to open a new tab though so you'll owe me a few button presses.

[The Fresh Prince]

There, That was easy. I apologize, page 11 for me.

complete nightmare material! i had a (much much much less serious) brush with cops a number of years ago that also invovled being at a station and being interogatted etc etc I ended up fainting dead away! just mental - my mind couldnt deal with the situation - it was like being in a whirlwind. did you also feel like this AO ?

[Cujo]

Shades of Mr. Nice, which I just finished.
So what happened?
The veges were good and the heroin wasn't heroin.
So what happened when you went to court AO?

[gusG]

I'd also be interested though in how Thai people coped with the high prices of food, taxi's and general travel that you mentioned from the late 70's, or do you think you were being overcharged? A public bus for 50bt? were the thai's paying that do you think?

The price he mentioned was " 1 Baht 50" meaning, 1 baht 50 satang, or 1and a 1/2 baht.
Just had to read the whole thread to correct that.

Ao, another request to please continue this great thread.

[SEA Traveler]

Story needs to be converted to a book. Nice read. We want more!

[The Fresh Prince]

The price he mentioned was " 1 Baht 50" meaning, 1 baht 50 satang, or 1and a 1/2 baht.

Arrh gottcha. I must have been too engrossed in the story and missed a few words.

[aging one]

Okay the past is the past and I will finish the thing. Let me catch up and see where I left off.

Fucking obsidian is the main reason I stopped the damn thing. But he is history, and I am having fun on here again.

[aging one]

Choklit was perhaps the most amazing person I have ever met, yet I never even witnessed the amazing Choklit.

He was a street child of Denpasar he never knew his mom or dad and all he could recall was the street , jails, and this prison. He did not even have a low class Balinese name as he had no parents. Somewhere along the line he picked up the moniker Choklit. He was brown as could be from a life spent in the sun. He was only 23 or so but a bit hunched over from carrying rice sacks, his job from when he could lift them until his troubles started.

Right before we built the garden another inmate and friend brought Choklit over to visit one day. That was the best thing about the prison there, you were locked up from 6pm till sunrise, but during the day you could go anywhere but over the walls. We were introduced about 7am and the first words from his mouth were "selemat pagi boss" What was that about? He wanted work as a servant and they knew I had some money. So a deal was struck. From the early am of each day he would hang and help over in our section of the prison.The salary? Coffee in the morning, and a packet of food we had brought in each night. Plus he had access to our boiled water.

He was the happiest guy on earth.

[Davis Knowlton]

Glad to see the story continues......

[aging one]

slowly, the beginning I had notes and thoughts, this one is more off the cuff.

[aging one]

Why did I want a servant? I did not I wanted Choklit on my side. I had heard about him from the day I arrived. He was magic to the Balinese, from what they said he could move from place to place like a ghost.

The proof was to them a couple of days before we arrived he had been put in the "hot house". A penalty room. It was about the size of a large dog house but with a flat roof, made of tin to make it hotter. Plus it had rebar below the tin. I sure as hell would not want to be in it, and the people I saw come out were changed. It was 4 to 5 days, with only water, and the evening gruel.

Well he had gone in to the house. But when they went to get him in the morning, after locking hime and everynne down he was not there. He was asleep back in his 20 person low rent cell. I did not see it, but I have to believe it as everybody in that jail believed he had powers.

Even the mafia heads left him alone, and gave him respect. But you must realize this is Bali and there had been a caste system for centuries. He knew he was the low of the low and made no big deal about what he could do. Supposedly he had done things like this on a quarterly basis.

He proved it to me by doing something I did not think he could do. In Bali when the Balinese guard the Balinese its very very laid back. To this day. I had more freedom along with the other gang members, we as the others were let out at sunrise, but we basically locked ourselves in at night. After we had eaten and talked and often drank, we closed the cell door.

So one day we were all talking the guards, and it came up that the regular prisoners like Choklit got out earlier as their cells were simply opened earlier. So Yoyo the gang leader says let Choklit come let us out, then he can get our hot water while we lay in bed. Sadly this was the truth, but was to be the beginning of a pattern that made me get out of bed each day with a smile.

The big test of Choklit as far as I was concerned would come the next day. In Bali the guards trust the inmates to open up the cells themselves. So Choklit would get a big ring of keys, perhaps 50 in total to come open my cell first. That very day the guard handed Choklit the key ring and said which one is Ao's? " This is the key to bosses room came in like 5 seconds". No way he could have known.

So the next morning I hear my cell open and my thermos go. Then about 5 minutes later I hear his flip flops running at top speed. Drops off my hot water and procedes to open the next 5 cells, greatly pissing off the German who had just gone to bed. The sound of those flip flops and the smile on his face each day was another reason to get justice. Which is soon to follow.

[hillbilly]

Please keep coming with your life adventures AO!

I think most of the riffraff is gone. If not they will be...

[pickel]

[ferretface]

excellent read,please continue

[kingwilly]

his creative juices are flowing again! (or is it memory cells ?)

[Cujo]

I get lost in it. Great storytelling AO.
You know there really is a book in this.

[rick75]

AO this is just a fantastic read, taking me into a World I am thankful to have never been, but I am very happy to get a little insight into.
You really do have a gift for this, it would make a great book.
Thanks again.

[aging one]

anybody recommend a publisher, or editor? Thanks so much for the compliments.
Y'all ready for the finale? But then you have to sit through the epilogue.

[PanzerJohn]

I've just suscribed to this exellent thread and await the happy ending.

[ebeth]

Well waiting in anticipation...like the rest of your readers!

[Cujo]

anybody recommend a publisher, or editor? Thanks so much for the compliments.
Y'all ready for the finale? But then you have to sit through the epilogue.

I can't help with that but i'll go with it.
Anyone?
must be someone here who knows a publisher.

[Umbuku]

Nice to read the continuing story mate.

I was beginning to think it would have to wait until my return to Thailand to hear the rest.

[khun andy]

I just started reading this amazing story, I am glad I have been able to get through what has so far been written in one hit....pity the guys waiting for so long. AO thanks for a great read but I imagine that it is a bitter sweet experience for you..well done and I hope you bring it to a conclusion. Having read it all in one hit it is irritating that fvckwits drop in on a story and add their useless two bobs worth and stuff up the flow.

[Cujo]

Wow, this was started 10 YEARS AGO!!