This was a good hour. I ran away from the few wannabe Hi-So clowns that give Chula a bad name, bought four beers off a barber down the way, rented a stool from a lady with an iced coffee stand and slipped her 50 baht to keep them cool. We talked in Thai - mine broken - for an hour. I met her sons, grandson. That lady! That lady with the ice coffee stand was the sweetest woman. A grandmother - proud, impish, bursting with energy and intrigue. She reminded me of my own grandma, Mrs Plumbe. My grandma is dead now. My grandma was crazy, but in the best way imaginable. Some say I got my humour, alcoholism from her. You want to know how nuts she was? She had hair but wore wigs. When she went out, she used to wear so many rings that one of them was actually a watch. She would ring me up out of the blue and tell me not to go to Papua New Guinea. She was something else. I sure miss her. But I digress...
The boys that sold electricity next door came out and had a drink with me. Open, funny fellas. I went back to the barber - swell guy, profound moustache -and got some more drinks. We all had a good laugh. It was beautiful, fitful laughter. Time immaterial, the world inconsequential.
Fuck. Why bother writing this drivel? I'm going to see them now.
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