Living in Thailand - How to Know You've Been in the Land of Smiles For Too Long

Thailand is an amazing place to live. The friendlysteaming hot weather.
people, delicious food and beautiful scenery areYou are deeply concerned when your favorite
just a few reasons to live here. However, therice dish goes up in price by $0.15 to a staggering
culture is very different from what most$0.60.
westerners are familiar with. Below is a list to helpThe language actually starts to make a little
you determine if some of the more curious Thaisense.
cultural oddities have rubbed off on you.You have no problems eating raw pig organs
You see an elephant in the street and don't thinkmixed with pig blood and spices.
"Oh wow! An elephant!" but instead complain about10 year olds riding motorcycles in the streets do
how it's slowing down traffic.not faze you.
You wake up in the morning with a hankering forYou think Sangsom and Mekong are actually
rice and noodles, not eggs and toast.pretty decent whiskeys.
You think that riding your motorcycle the wrongYou haven't cooked a meal in months, besides
way down one-way streets, running red lights andwhat can be made with a hot water maker.
riding on the wrong side of the road are perfectlyYou find that some of the Thai music is actually
normal.pretty decent.
You think that Singha and Chang are actuallyShaking somebody's hand feels weird.
pretty decent beers.You can ride a motorcycle with 10 grocery bags,
You see a family of four and their dog ridinga bookshelf and a hot pizza box strapped to it.
together on a single motorcycle and you onlyYou ask for every meal extra spicy.
wonder what they ate for dinner.You put spicy fish sauce on everything.
You wear sweaters and sweatshirts despite the