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**LOVEBoy** · 12-08-2007, 08:48 AM

And still on the subject of Christmas being a time for boosting retail sales versus being a time for giving ... on my birthday this year my wife didn't know what to buy me.

So we went to a wet market in the suburbs of Bangkok. There she bought me a bag of live eels (46 -- one more than my years), all the stall's remaining live frogs (about 15) and 4 live terrapins. We then hired a van to take us to a lake and released them all.

We had to throw the frogs into the lake because they wanted to hang around on the lakeside and there were people around who the driver said would catch them as soon as we left.

After that we went to a 7-11, bought some monks' daily necessities and took them to a local temple.

Then we went to Hua Lamphong temple and paid 500 baht for a coffin for whoever didn't have the money to pay for one.

That was a birthday I'll not forget and if we do something similar on Xmas Day I would feel that it was much closer to what the Xmas spirit is supposed to be about.

12-08-2007, 08:48 AM	#5
LOVEBoy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 487 Senior Member	And still on the subject of Christmas being a time for boosting retail sales versus being a time for giving ... on my birthday this year my wife didn't know what to buy me. So we went to a wet market in the suburbs of Bangkok. There she bought me a bag of live eels (46 -- one more than my years), all the stall's remaining live frogs (about 15) and 4 live terrapins. We then hired a van to take us to a lake and released them all. We had to throw the frogs into the lake because they wanted to hang around on the lakeside and there were people around who the driver said would catch them as soon as we left. After that we went to a 7-11, bought some monks' daily necessities and took them to a local temple. Then we went to Hua Lamphong temple and paid 500 baht for a coffin for whoever didn't have the money to pay for one. That was a birthday I'll not forget and if we do something similar on Xmas Day I would feel that it was much closer to what the Xmas spirit is supposed to be about.
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