Lucky gecko
Last night we found a tokay (gecko) inside our house. I always thought Thai people saw that as a sign of good luck, so I told my wife we should be happy because we would have plenty of luck. Well, that was probably another cliché about Thailand, because my wife just urged me to catch the gecko and kill it! I tried the usual “you’re the Thai here, you should be used to catch those things”, but she objected with her usual “you’re the man here, so you do something”.
I had no idea how I would catch the beast and I was pretty sure I would miss it if I tried to beat it with a stick, which seemed better anyway than not missing it and having to clean the butchery. So I did the only sensible thing to do and used a broom to chase it out of the house. Any chance of luck should be preserved…
Short weather report: it hasn’t rained for several days now and the weather is still hot. Nights are a bit cooler though.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I Think you did it the proper ” Buddhist ” way, isn’t it ?
We are now in Chaam enjoying the cool weather !
November 19th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
The funny thing is, the day after my wife got bitten by a dog! Took her to the hospital then she was off to the temple to “tam boon” (make amend).
The weather was very nice today wasn’t it. It’s probably the best period to visit Cha-am. Where do you stay Bob?
November 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
At her late father’s home in ChiangRai, my Thai wife told me that having a tokay around the house brings good fortune. She did not say ‘in the house’ though. Several years ago in the kitchen of the town house here in Cha-am, her daughters screamed when finding one in a cupboard under the sink and chased it out with a broom – I even took a video shot of the event but the creature disappeared so fast you can only recognize it by frame-by-frame proceding through the blurr. So you did it in the proper Thai way, indeed.
Btw, about the November 18th comment: be it that ‘bob’ does not, ‘bekaert’ appears like the name of a fellow Flemishman. I’m from Mechelen, now for the first time staying a rather longer time in Cha-am.