Time in Thailand = Knowledge Really?
I met a guy the other day. One of those long termers who seem to live by the above mantra.
He went out of his way to tell me (unsolicited, of course) how I should have handled a particular interaction "the Thai way".
He concluded by saying something along the lines of "I should know...I have lived here for 14 years."
Having always found this assumption that time in Thailand automatically equates to knowledge of Thailand a little hard to swallow, I replied...
"Really? I know plenty of guys who have lived in Australia for all their lives, and they still don't know shit from clay."
He didn't get it...