We're going to introduce a new breed of stupid tourist today at J.I.P., and that would be the tourist who believes that his hotel is a citadel of security, and that his Thai lover is a paragon of virtue.OK: Listen carefully. If you are a farang who leaves valuable stuff in your hotel room, and your Thai partner is aware of that fact, then that officially means that your Thai partner's friends are aware of the fact, and the hotel staff is aware of the fact as well. In fact, it is safe to assume that everybody knows exactly what you have in your room because you let a strange Thai person in there to look around. Understand?
If you leave a 800,000 baht worth of valuables in your hotel room, your Thai boyfriend or girlfriend is going to promise the hotel staff a few months' salaries to leave your spare key out where your Thai boyfriend's or girlfriend's cousin or older brother can find it while you are out partying.
This isn't really a post about evil, thieving Thai people, because a substantial portion of humanity — if given the chance to steal enough money from a hotel room to take 3 years off from work, or go back home and buy a house — without the slightest hesitation, would take everything you own.
Oh... and going to the police department and whining about your lost goods only accomplishes one thing: It lets everybody else on the planet know that you were really, really, really stupid.
2 comments:
Exactly! It amazes me that guys coming to Thailand even wear a nice watch, ring, gold necklace, shoes, or anything that would show they had more money than the average schlep. Who are they going to impress? Usually I'm seen with a backpack that contains my notebook, camcorder, digital camera, mini-hdd's and other stuff. I don't leave ANYTHING in a hotel. No hotel. Ever. Sucks to be out drinking with a backpack full of my stuff - but better to have it than not. PS: how did you get the fav.ico to work for your blogger site? I thought impossible... Now I've gotta look that up some more unless you want to share how you did it? Vern
The fave.ico was made with some website program... I can't remember which... and then inserted the fave.ico information in my template. (You can go to View|Source to see where and what.)
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