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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Michael Sphar who wrote (2136)1/22/1997 1:30:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White   of 108807
 
Tks your post. I have a problem with going to Tokyo (many trips back to HQ) in that it used to be that dept manager types could just go out to the Ginza or the Akasaka strip on the company tab and rack up $600 bills. Now they can't do that just for internal company bashes, they need to justify by having an outside party along for the ride so everything's paid for. Whenever I go to Tokyo, I'm the "outside party" so I usually have to hit about 3 or 4 of these places in one night, each one more morally suspect than the previous. If I'm there for two or three days, various departments get to deploy me as the outside party for the night so it gets really beastly by the time I go.

FYI, on my last trip to Bangkok (last month), I had not been there for several years and I was somewhat sad to see that Tuk-Tuks are becoming a thing of the past there. There are still a few to be seen during the day, more at night, but what with increase in living standards most people would rather pay extra for a taxi. I once took one to the Oriental Hotel (very posh place) and loved the reaction I got from the doorman.

For the uninitiated, a Tuk-Tuk is a peculiarly Southeast Asian three-wheeler, usually piloted by a testosterone-charged psychopath who considers it part of his male self definition to careen through traffic jams and through suspicious alleyways to get you to your destination, all the while nearly pitching you off into oncoming traffic. The name is descriptive of the sound the thing makes.
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