A New Power Source, and Losing It, Isaan Thailand.

The other night I was tapping away on the computer late at night when all of a sudden the computer went dead. So I unplugged it and plugged it back in and tried again, nothing.

I checked the surge protector and this was fine and turned it off and on and tried powering up, but nothing. Off come the side of the system unit and a quick check to see if anything stood out. After checking for blown capacitors and not seeing any, I straight away then thought the power supply unit was gone.

So I took it out and the next day took it to my mate at his computer shop to test it and it was dead. Off to JIB a local computer store and bought a new power supply, then later that afternoon home and installed it.

It is really easy to do, so I plugged in the mother board, the cd/dvd burner, the 3 fans and hard drives and powered it on. Did a check on reboot and noticed that only 1GB of RAM was showing up. So off came the side of the computer again and both RAM were pulled out and checked.

Inserted one stick and fired up the computer and checked the BIOS and it showed up, so shutdown and installed the other and it didn’t show up on booting. So I drop into my mates shop again and he checked and told me it was dead.

So, off I went to the shop I bought it from as it carries a lifetime warranty. After listening to the lady explain to me that she will send the RAM to Bangkok and I will get a new stick back in 2 weeks.

I then enquired to why she had to send it to Bangkok and this is when it got a little interesting. She informed me she buys her RAM from Pantip Plaza, the shithole of a place in the capital. So she has to send it back to her supplier to get a new stick in return.

I then pointed out to her that she buys it from Bangkok, not I. That she can send it wherever she likes but she needs to replace the ram there and then.

Anyway, she starts to explain again to me the whole story. I stopped her and again told her I understood what she had said. I asked her “why won’t you replace the RAM now as it is under warranty.”

She then starts the whole story over again. I was trying to not scream, “I fucking understand you for fuck sake.’ I stopped her again with a never mind and asked her to provide me with a receipt saying the RAM had been sent away. Then something happened that made me lose my temper and yell.

This old lady sitting at the counter with massive glasses on said to the owner of the shop, “He doesn’t understand, he is a stupid farang.”

I had to do a double take; I looked straight at the old faced hag and asked her what she had just said. She sat looking at me with a stupid expression. I then explained to her I understood what she said, and asked her why she thought I was stupid.

Again she sat with a stupid look, I then lost it, I raised my voice and told her I would slap her across her face if she opened mouth again and that she was a hillbilly buffalo.

The lady from the counter made thing worse when she used the old Thai, have a cool heart, or meaning cool down to which I told her to virtually fuck off as well.

I was given my receipt and left as I was so close to going ballistic at the old hag. After she ran her mouth off she hadn’t said another thing, just sat there with a retarded expression.

Two other young people in the shop with another assistant were also shocked I suppose to hear someone speaking like this to an older person and instead of being “Kreng Jai” or be good hearted or polite, forgiving, no matter how wrong a person could be.

Most Thais would just walk off and say nothing as this is the right thing to do apparently. So I lost it like I hadn’t done for a long, long time. This happened because the old woman with a smart ass mouth.

I walked briskly out of the shop, headed home still in a fowl mood, then thankfully Nong Ja calmed me down as we had to have some play time.

I did think a little later on that I went a little over the top, the way I spoke to the old bitch but again she deserved it. She was rude and blatantly in my face made the remark. She had to have known I understood Thai as I had listened to the story about sending the RAM to Bangkok and spoke to the owner in Thai.

So I will have to front back at the shop in hopefully less than two weeks to pick up the new RAM, I just hope there isn’t any problem as I really don’t feel like another angry moment.

Brunty