Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Being rejected by taxis

Tuesday, May 20.  Hi all.  I have spent my first day and second night in Thailand now.  It is much cooler than I thought it would be and it rained hard for a long time last night.  A productive day talking to the hat maker in Sampeng, and my feeling is that he will be able to produce the hats the way I want them.  The rest of the day was spent hanging out at home and catching up on sleep and getting the jet lag issue worked out.

My new experience of the day happened in the morning, when we were trying to get a taxi to go see the hat guy.  We we refused service by 5 taxis in a row.  This was because they all said that the traffic to where we were going was too bad.  But I thought it was interesting.  I've never been a taxi driver, but you figure you take whatever ride to wherever whenever you can.  It's very competitive and even sitting still in traffic the meter keeps going.  Hmm.  There's probably something there I don't understand, but nonetheless it was kind of weird.

Otherwise, I'm fine, and things are going as well as I could hope, I suppose.  Dealing with a lot of negative energy from Dad.  He is so pessimistic about everything.  My work is to take him on his terms and not let him get me negative.  I still believe in the way I want things done and know that he is doing this all out of love.  But there's really no point in asking me about my opinion if it just has to be done his way anyway, is there?  That's what we argue about.  He asks me something, I answer, and he says something, anything, that's the opposite of what I answer.  I guess I'll try to just agree because it doesn't matter anyway.  Hmm.  Something for me to work on personally.  Talk again tomorrow, all.  I hope you are doing great!

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