BOXING DAY Pattaya 2007
Boxing Day is a strictly English holiday dating back to the Middle Ages when the lower class received hand-outs from their feudal overlords.
In early capitalist times the box was clay pot containing the year’s tips. December 26 the year’s bonus would be doled out to the workers, however whenever I ask Brits about Boxing Day’s origins they say it’s the day after Christmas on which nothing is open.
This a fact, for I traveled from Portsmouth to London on Boxing Day 1985. The single 2nd Class train car was shared by me and five National Front lager louts. The ride had all the making of a combination of zombie film 28 DAYS LATER and the Jam’s hit DOWN IN THE TUBE AT MIDNIGHT.
Desolation. Rain. Drunks. Violence.
I first felt a fist, and then a kick
I could now smell their breath
They smelt of pubs and wormwood scrubs
And too many right wing meetings
My life swam around me
It took a look and drowned me in its own existence
The smell of brown leather
It blended in with the weather
It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth
It blocked all my senses
Couldnt see, hear, speak any longer
And Im down in the tube station at midnight
I said I was down in the tube station at midnight - THE JAM
Luckily the skinheads only rode two stops up the line, Boxing Day 2006 I was less fortunate and an altercation on my soi earned me a set of Panda eyes.
See http://www.mangozeen.com/road-rage-thai-style.htm
This year I stayed cool.
No fights.
Not even with my wife or mia noi.
That will come later.
By the way it was sunny and warm in Pattaya on Boxing Day.
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