Table of contents for Living Like a Thai
- Living Like a Thai
- Living Like a Thai Day 1: The 200 Baht a Day Challenge
- Living Like a Thai Day 2: Losing Money in My Sleep
- Living Like a Thai Day 4: Pee Baa Falang
- Living Like a Thai Day 5: It’s a Wash
- Living Like a Thai Day 6: The Frugal Tightwad
- Living Like a Thai Day 7: I’m Bored
- Living Like a Thai Day 8: Going AWOL
- Living Like a Thai Day 9: Falling Down That Mountain
- Living Like a Thai Day 10: The Belt Tightening Begins
- Living Like a Thai Day 11: Tofu, Really?
- Living Like A Thai Day 12: Going Native, Almost
- Living Like a Thai Day 13: Lunch with the Ladies
- Living Like a Thai Day 14: The Late Edition or Quiet Be
- Living Like a Thai Day 15: Halfway there!
- Living Like a Thai Day 16: Beer & Vegetables
- Living Like a Thai Day 17: Red Moon Eclipse Edition
- Living Like a Thai Day 18: Once in a Blue Moon
- Living Like a Thai Days 19 & 20: Ringing the Bell
- Living Like a Thai Days 21 & 22: Aircon Down Pigs Cooking
- Living Like a Thai Day 23: Put a Fork in it…I’m Done
Or As I like to say …Pom Pui Puying Gaan Roong Pleeng ( the fat lady sings )
Well, you can’t say I didn’t put forth a worthy effort in this little experiment of Living Like a Thai for a month. I really thought I had it sussed too with just 8 days left to go, but obviously it wasn’t meant to be.
Originally I started out the experiment in the beginning of June with 200 baht a day to spend but after some budget modifying my daily spend turned out to be more like 133 baht a day, and I think I was doing fine on that amount. A small slip up on a night out set my budget back slightly more leaving me only 104 baht a day to live on for the rest of the month, but I was still going strong and there was nothing that could stop me.
What Went Wrong?
I really wish I could tell you a tale of going over the edge and getting lost in a night of drunken debauchery only to wake snuggled up to a harem of women and wondering why I have 134 text messages from K Bank… a boy can dream. More to the point I thought I might blow the budget tonight as I had a date with a very beautiful Thai woman, but even that has now gone to hell in a hand basket.
Nope, nothing nefarious. As It approached midnight last night I was unusually tired so I called it a night only to wake up this morning feeling like hell. One quick trip to the bathroom to look in the mirror confirmed my fears…my tonsils were the size of golf balls and infected to boot. A quick shower and to the clinic I went, 15 minutes, 2 jabs and a pile of pills later the sad truth hit home…I had failed. The bill was 1100 baht which puts me over for the month and there is no way to recover from this one, even if there were I have 2 subsequent clinic visits at 300 baht each to put the final nails in that coffin.
You’d think I’d be happy that the experiment is at an end, and you’d be wrong. I really wanted to succeed, well, succeed to the point where I, as a falang living like a Thai, only could. And besides today is worse than yesterday by a mile. Yesterday I could eat…today not so much, Yesterday I had the prospect of a date with a beautiful Thai woman…yeah, ain’t gonna happen and the kicker…I lost her number.
Today I can do whatever I want except what I want to do 
I’m gonna take a day or two off from posting and be sick because now I can do what I want! After that I’ll be back to wrap up the series with a post on my thoughts about living like a Thai for Almost a month.
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