“You haven’t been sitting in the same boring pub for the last fifteen years complaining about the cold and the damp, the b****y government and your aching back. You’ve had a great adventure… I don’t know any other falang who has lived in a small Thai village in the middle of nowhere for as long as you have and been accepted as much as you have. It’s a dream come true, man! You wait until you get back, and people say, ‘Haven’t seen you around these parts before’ and you say, ‘No, I just got back from fifteen years in a remote Thai village’. They won’t believe you, and you’ll say, ‘It’s true, there’s my wife, daughter and granddaughter over there…”
“I hadn’t thought of it like that before…”
“No, well, wake up and stop feeling so sorry for yourself, or I’ll pour a bucket of water over you”.
