Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Old man's wavering, Maiyuu the door-breaker

I feel a boat trip coming on.

I want to go to Pin Khlao, to relax, and watch attractive Thais pass by.

It's a rundown part of Bangkok, true, but close to the Chao Phraya river, which I love. It is also close to a couple of universities, so has a good social 'cohort', as a demographer might say.

Part of me wants to throw a few books into a bag and take off, knowing I probably won't get home for another 10 hours.

Another part of me is more cautious. The old man in me wants me to go to bed and take a rest.

It's the same, cautious old-man part of me which says that if I go across the river for the day, as my naughty half would like, I will end up spending too much money.

After I get up from my sleep, my old man voice says, it will be too late to do anything. 'So, go to bed now,' it says.

The boyfriend says I should go out if feel the urge. 'No matter whether you go out or not, you will still spend money,' he says.

Actually, I suspect Maiyuu would get lonely if I disappeared for the day. He's just not saying.

Sigh!

I have old man's indecision. What to do?
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Boyfriend Maiyuu locked himself out of his bedroom yesterday, and spent three hours hammering away at the door, trying to break the lock.

His door has a push-button lock which stuck itself in lock mode a few months ago.

He took precautions to make sure the door could not slam shut while he was outside the room, but yesterday they came awry when the scarf he tied around the door to stop it closing properly came free.

A gust of wind came, and Bang! He was locked out.

When I left for work, Maiyuu had been trying to prise open the door with all the household tools he could find. They still weren’t enough, so finally he called someone from the office, who brought a large car-jack type thing for forcing open the door. It worked.

Now the door has a nasty hole in it where the door handle used to be. Being an elegant creature, I want that hole filled again as soon as possible. It is upsetting my sense of room harmony.

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