From: ssg9328@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Samart Srijumnong)
Subject: Re: Me Too
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 06:37:14 GMT
Keywords: me too

cslac2216@bestsd.sdsu.edu (Unalome Techamuanvivit) writes:

>...............

>	:) That should be all for today.  Anybody else wants to share their
>experience?  C'mon friends..nothing is funnier than lauhging at ourselves. :)

>     Sa'Wad'Dii- Kha"

>	Pim-

I like this attitude, Khun Pim. Yes, laughing at ourselves does not do any
harm to anybody but to publicize how one had Ploy'Kai' in the past needs
some bravery. OK, here is one of mine:

	Once I was working at a waiter in a faculty club at U of Chicago.
	There they served dinner too. One evening, waiting at a table of
	five including a kind old lady, I heard she asked me something
	like "Would you get me some `bandage' ? Without hesitation though
	was quite astonished why she needed such thing(s), I rushed down to
	the front desk asking for what I thought she wanted. The lady there
	gave me three bandages. I rushed up back to the kitchen, put them
	on a butter plate, (to the surprise of many of my co-workers!), and
	rushed out to the dining room. I proudly presented the plate to 
	the lady. I still remember her face when she looked at it. She 
	was apparently surprised almost frightened by what I gave her. I
	asked her if she had not asked for them (the bandages). She said
	she didn't ask for them but she did ask for some "mayonaise." 
	Realizing I had Ploy' a big Kai', I apologized and gave what she
	needed. I kept laughing every time I see mayonaise. How could I
	know it is pronounced /mae-er-nez/ since we call it MaaYongNed in
	Thailand?

	When one memery comes up, another follows. Here is another
	one:

	This time it happened when I brought my bike to a bike store on
	another campus at the foot of the hills in Palo Alto. The owner
	asked what he could help. I told him "The front tire of my bike
	got flat. It needs some WIND." The man was confused. I repeated
	that the tire needed some WIND. He would have guessed from the context
	and realized what I wanted. He said "Oh, I see, the tire needs
	some AIR." The term was inconceivable to me at the time
	since when a tire got flat in Thailand, it needs LOm. The 
	word LOm means wind in Thai. If you want to refer to air, we use
	the term AaKaad'. 

	The last one is not experienced by myself but I have heard as a
	story told from class of class of Thai students. At one time, 
	a new student was brought to a stake house with a couple of
	Run"Phii"Phii" students. When all were at the table, the waitress
	began to take order. To this poor new student's relief, one of
	the Run"Phii" students suggested all take the same kind of stake
	so that it would be faster. However, the waitress still needed 
	to know how each of them wanted his/her stake to be done. Luckily,
	she started from one of the Run"Phii" students and the person
	responded with "medium". The next one also wanted medium and the
	next one still wanted medium. When the waitress turned to the
	new student, the girl answered with some broken English that
	"Mine is small. I am not very hungry!". 

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