There are 11 more shopping days until Xmas and 6 of them will pass without holiday cheer, as the reigning junta has declared 12/14 to 12/16 and 12/21 to 12/23 periods of no-alcohol sales anywhere in the country to insure a sober election for the new government.
No beer. No Lao. No tequila shots. Not anywhere and all infractions involving public gatherings including parties will be punished by 10 days in jail. No exceptions to insure that pre-election day voting would not be influenced by the old-time tradition of buying your way into power via the magic of free booze. This tactic had worked for the Roman Senate, Tamanny Hall in New York, and Boston’s 17th Ward.
Vote early and vote often.
This season democracy takes a breathalzyer test this year in Thailand.
What else can you expect from a junta led my towel heads?
Thankfully I recalled the ban about three minutes before 6pm. I rode my motor scooter like a rat with its tail on fire to my local alcohol distributor and bought a bottle of vodka a minute before closing. Two boys in brown showed up at 6pm to enforce the government’s edict.
Ha.
I was cool.
3 days / one liter of vodka and I wasn’t telling anyone about my stash.
I should survive to the other side of this social experiment without seeing pink elephants ie suffering the DTs. I don’t need bars. I don’t need go-gos. I don’t need to vote either. Certainly not for any of the choices in Thailand or the USA.
I only vote for ‘none of the above’.