Thai girl have some land
One not so rainy day in the middle of the rainy season we had an appointment with the land department. We had hired them to measure the land my girlfriend had rented from her brother.
The land actually belongs to the family but it is in the brothers name or that is what I understood anyway. It is very difficult for a farang to get the truth and nothing but the truth from any Thai people.
I do not mean they all lie and cheat, my girlfriend is a normal hi so upper class girl with long educations and plenty of time in schools abroad. Her English is better than mine but still they keep on bending the line most of us westerns call the straight true line.
For example if you and your girlfriend hatch and you want to build a house in Thailand I am sure she will say I have some land.
That can mean anything from:
1. You are lucky; she actually has the land because she is rich and bought it.
2. You are less lucky, she has the land but she gave it to the bank. When you finish with the building the bank takes the land back –that’s the worse case.
3. You are shit of luck; she knows someone that can sell you the land for a handsome profit.
4. You are in to some Thai family mess, her family has some land but it is not in her name. (my case)
5. You are into some sleepless nights, the land is ok but its next to her parents house, in the middle of the village where all her 23 relatives live. And they now all are going to use the new ATM that moved in.
6. You are going to have wet dreams; the land is the next to the Mekong River or in some part of Thailand where once a year you will have a 3 meters flood. Did she forget to tell you?
7. You are the ATM, she is letting you pay for everything and then she will just close the door and leave.
Japanese cheated by Thai girl
There are many more scenarios but one that I practically find funny is the story about the Japanese man that has fallen deeply in love with an Isan bar girl. He comes back every month to see her and after some time, decides to get married.
They went up to Isan and he paid the dowry, the right to marry the daughter of the poor rice farmer (do not ever pay a huge amount of money for marry a bar girl).
They killed the pig, got ribbons on his hands, got blessed by monks and everything was happy and dandy. She then built them a house in a piece of land that she had from before and he went back to Japan to finish off some business.
When he tried to call her from Japan she never answered the phone and when he came to Bangkok no one was there to meet him. He went alone to Isaan and found a Thai man standing in the doorway of his house. The Japanese man asked the man who the guy was. The Thai man said, “I am the husband and this is my house. Who are you and what are you doing here?”
The nice little bar girl was already married legally to the Thai husband and just went through the blessing ceremony with the Japanese guy(you can do that ceremony with the monks as many time as you want it does not mean anything. It is more a tradition in north Thailand). He could not claim the house or the wife because he had no papers of the land or the house or the marriage. All he had was a bag full of ATM slips.
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