Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / February 2006

Thailand- Vietnam   Travel Humor- on the road

Bangkok traffic or God I am glad to be alive

         After a leisurely stroll through a religious shrine we made the
mistake of getting into the taxi from hell.  It was obviously driven by a
recent escapee from the local asylum...his first act was to make a U turn
into on coming traffic which he considered to be his personal domain.
Bangkok streets are no place for the week of heart, but this man felt no
vehicle on either side of the road was to large to challenge in order to
save 3 seconds.  My wife, who is not the most regular of women no longer
needs laxatives and both of my remaining hairs, "lefty: and "old faithful"
are forever gray...With one hand on his cell phone, the other on the horn he
was completely oblivious to our terror...trust me, nobody should enter a car
like that unless they were blindly drunk or terminally ill.  For the price
of two dollars, I used up a month's supply of adrenaline...tomorrow Chaing
Mai