Everywhere else in the world this might be a little a strange but on the balcony of Nana Plaza during Songkran this is perfectly acceptable behavior. A man with butterfly wings, water gun, water pack, holster and a waterproof pack for the cigs. The important things in life.
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What rock did he crawl out from under?
View all comments by PB
Let’s be cool. A mango customer is a mango customer.
I applaud his totally disregard for what others may think of him.
It is Songkran BTW.
View all comments by smitty
Interesting character indeed and a super nice guy. He had the most advance waterproofing money could by. I could definitely tell he’s done this before.
View all comments by pmmp
If I try to walk 20 meters from my apartment building to 7-11 I get splashed with water.
I went out on Thursday for a business meeting, dressed in a business shirt, chinos, and carrying my laptop computer. As I stepped onto the sidewalk coming out of my building I was stitched up the front and (twice) down the back with a high-powered water gun.
On Saturday I tried to go to the train station three blocks away and was accosted to the point of soaking wet from head to toe… several times with ice-cold water, not to mention caked powder spread on my face. I finally gave up and returned home.
Maybe it sounds like fun to some. Personally, I find it all terribly obnoxious.
Except for the two for forays described above, I have barricaded myself in my room since mid-day Thursday, and I’ve been ordering pizza, chicken and hamburger deliveries rather than face the perils of the sidewalks of Bangkok. I’ve been re-stocking supplies by sneaking to 7-11 at 4 am.
Kudos to all those who are able to enjoy the spirit of Songkran. As for me, all I can say is, “humbug!”
View all comments by werewolf
I can’t really argue with u. if one can just go out and hit nana, silom, or cowboy for some water fighting and then party - then SK is cool. But if u have to function a normal life with work and so on then it sucks since they have no respect for that. I have never really been a big fan of SK. With the fight we saw on soi 4 and a huge drop in customers, since people are afraid to go out, just reaffirms my distaste of it. Oh well.
Seems to be over now.
Back to normality one hopes.
View all comments by smitty
I would have thought the huge drop in customers would be because most of us had been out partying all day! I know the bars in Soi Cowboy must have had a huge drop in income, as everyone was drinking cheap Leo with the bars proving ice, buckets, glasses etc. to the girls and the customers. I guess it was made up through from the girls having to pay their double-normal barfines as so many of them couldn’t stand even *with* the assistance of a chrome pole.
I think not respecting people trying to have a ‘normal life’ is mostly because it is a holiday - the most active water throwers I saw outside the party zones where the poor sods who had to work over the holiday - 7/11 staff, KFC staff, Robinson’s staff - young people wanting to be out partying with their friends or back home with family but stuck slaving away for their pitiful salaries. Why would you be going to work unless you where in a dead end job shoveling fries like them?
View all comments by Cabby
Cabby: Many folks with non-dead-end jobs or people who still have to conduct business also have to work. Chino-wearing werewolf as well as your’s truly for starters, although it is certainly debatable if shoveling fries holds more of a future than my current job :). For me it boils down to the boy scouts motto “Be Prepared”. Yes, I cursed Songkran as it took me an extra 20 minutes a day to get prepared but overall it was quite fun. One day of festivities would be better of course.
View all comments by pmmp
Please tell me where this guy came from????
Hope that’s not someones father???
Man, I’m dying here!!
View all comments by Woody
Woody -
u r just jealous that u don’t have a set of butterfly wings.
View all comments by smitty