Machete Mayhem
Brilliant book review! Merci! Your review of Siam Smile/s perked up my day.
Some people (in denial) can't figure out what I talk about. Like one fellow who in ChiangMai Citylife quoted my observation about Chiang Mai people being “pervasively pernicious” and asked, “What planet does Mr Watson come from? Tiberius?” But two weeks later he was chased all night through a forest by his Chiang Mai brother-in-law with a machete. For the next few weeks, he ducked and dived around the city. Finally, he disappeared.
An old fellow I called Buffalo Bill in the book thought it was a bit much until he, a 75-year-old ex-Marine pilot, was chased barefoot out of his apartment by his 28-year-old live-in hamlet girl. She went at him with a knife because he wouldn’t buy her a new Honda Jazz.
The point is that I try to steer people away from these dangerous episodes, but they waffle around like this was San Diego, not a Third World place.
Hugh Watson
Author, Siam Smile/s, Thailand
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