“Has anything happened while I’ve been away?” he asked sensing an atmosphere.
“No, nothing”, said Soom, “except that all the TV is in Spanish and we can’t understand a word of it”.
“Oh, is that all? That is in this guest-house, in our own house we can choose any satellite package we like. There are even Thai channels now, so people have told me. Don’t worry about the TV, you never watched it much anyway, Lek”.
“No, that’s true, but when you have no friends and there is nothing else, then you can fall back on the TV”.
“Yes, I understand, but we will sort that out. Now, shall we eat here or try somewhere else?”
“Oh, here, Craig. They have been so nice to us, that it would feel like were insulting them if we went anywhere else this afternoon”.
“OK”, he said raising his hand to ask for a
