“How are you getting on with the stock-taking, Anne-Anne?”
“All right, I think, Ayr, I’m about half-done.”
“Good, if you want a coffee, you can take a break now and sit with us a while.”
“No, I’d like to finish this first, if you don’t mind.” She was comfortable with Ayr, who was ‘her aunty’, but she didn’t know Lek and was a little in awe, shy, of her still.
“OK, Anne-Anne, as you please, but you’re welcome to join us.”
“Seems keen, at least… Anyway, Soom’ll be here before Christmas, and from that she said yesterday, she might even be here before the weekend.”
Christmas is not a typical reference point for Thais, but the ones who have a relationship with a falang hear it so often that they usually adopt it, although most Thais don’t know when Christmas is or what it’s about.
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