We were fairly tired on Thursday evening in Khorat after two long bus journeys, but somehow the Dragonfly guys with whom we were staying persuaded us to go out for 'one drink' at midnight. Driving back to their house at 3am, having enjoyed several hours and rather too many drinks in Khorat's best club 'Zoom Zoom', we spied several policemen standing in the road up ahead. There was a fair bit of nervousness as we approached the inevitable meeting with the local constabulary, not least because of the state of the 6 occupants squeezed into the car, especially the driver Jake, who was British and drank like one too. Sure enough, we were pulled over and I have roughly translated the following conversation into English for your amusement.
"Are you drunk?" says the officer.
"No sir, I am not drunk," replies our blurry eyed Jake.
"Have you been drinking whiskey?"
"No, no whiskey!"
"Are you sure?" the officer persists.
"Yes, really, I am really not drunk."
"So why are you driving around at 3am without your lights on?"
"Oh I am so sorry officer," Jake replies having realised his huge mistake.
"Well, do not do it again."
"Ok officer."
"Off you go then!" and the officer waves them on.
Jake thanks the officer, switches on his lights and we are back on our way.
The next hour was spent laughing about how Jake, with no driving licence, got away with driving with no lights at 3am in the morning completely drunk. Very occasionally there are advantages to being a farang!
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