...mainly at the Emporium supermarket, but also at Central Chidlom's basement supermarket and, of course, Villa (on Sukhumvit) from time to time...Originally Posted by JolieFolie
...for my most recent fruit basket, I selected the fruit I wanted in the basket and supervised the wrapping (at the Emporium supermarket)...they did a wonderful job...
...Anna dearest...eat your broccoli, it retards the growth of snarkiness...
...and po3try: your buns are unforgettable, I'm sure...
Thank you, Mr Blake. So if I give the cleaning lady an envelope and the security guys a bottle of whiskey at New Year (the rest of the building be damned), have I got it about right?
Thank you, Tomcat. Up until now I've been shopping in that place in Siam Square, called Gourmet, I believe. Relishing the thought of haunting other aisles.
Thank you, Mr Reinvented. I'm miles from anywhere at the moment. The nice people from the CELTA course found it. Lovely it is, too, in a Stepford kind of way. About 15 mins from the new Wongwain Yai station. Lovely gaff, and you-know-who would never be able to find it. Yikes! What have I said? Guess who's looking through my window?
...for the ladies that clean the corridors, empty the trash, and generally wipe the place down...I leave a few old T-shirts, faded shirts I no longer wear, even trousers (washed and folded in a plastic bag) a meter or so from the trash can...such lovely smiles and greetings I get in return for such a small gesture...
Nice idea.
Sounds good, although there's a slim chance the security guards are devout Buddhists and don't drink, and they may not be able to drink at work, thereby making the sharing of the aforementioned bottle problematic. They won't be expecting anything anyway, so just big friendly smiles and souvenirs from your home country for their children can go a very long way.
Take me down to the paranormal city where the girls are green and they have three titties...
Oh, won't you please take me home?
Also a very cool idea. I have to say, the people at my building are extraordinarily sweet. I don't know how they manage those smiles given the kind of work they do and the pittance they must receive in return. I don't care if the smiles are fake or genuine, I just admire and appreciate them.
...*ahem*...
...you're getting a little soggy there, young miss...
...stick to fruit...
Nothing says "thank you" like a 20 baht bag of fruit IMO.
Do you have coke?
...that's the spirit...
Or "I love you" for that matter. I've no idea why my ex wasn't impressed
I swear to God I don't know what came over me. Sorry about that.
Beat me to it again AO.
For a single male. Scotch. UPPER or Middle Class Johnnie Walker. (Blue or Black Label)
Working Class Seagrams or Red Label.
Working Poor. Any Local Version of Scotch. (It is probably in the other bottles too.But don't tell anyone.)
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Obviously a nice bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon would not be the thing, but do Thai men really only drink whiskey/scotch?
Well it is the preferred gift. I used to meet several Thai Men every Sat. night (group of 6 upper middle class businessmen) and yes Johnnie Walker Black was the perfered drink. In fact the only thing we did drink with mixers, usually soda water.
On other occasions, they would drink a cocktail or have a glass of wine. But the usual and customary drink was JW Black.
With my working class Thai friends, they always get warm and gushy when I give them Seagram.
Bars probably sell 90 percent Scotch, all the other bottles are for decoration.
Once I bought a bottle of Smirnoff, and oh what a Faux pas. I had to get a bottle of JW BL too, just to make up for my trasgression.
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...And the rest, as they say, is history...
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