why alcohol is a bad idea

today we will share a parable. except it's not so much a parable as just what happened the other night at home when our paw was a little tipsy...

there are these giant lizards in thailand called tu-kays because they have an extremely loud call that sounds a lot like, "TU!kaaay." all the little kids and our meh are quite afeared of the tu-kays, for legend has it that they can bite your neck off, or something like that. for this reason, when nick found one on the side of the house instead of under the roof where they usually hang out, he called paw over to dispose of it.

to our surprise, paw coaxed it onto the upper floor, where he proceeded to grab it round the neck as a sort of show-and-tell for the farangs. he kept saying things like, "they can't bite you! their teeth are like fish!" and, "they're friendly!" while our meh cowered in the corner. when i told her not to be afraid because paw said they don't bite, she just glowered at me with a sullen, "paw's a liar!"

after 15 minutes of fun, paw decided to free the beast on a tree in the garden. the tu-kay decided to bite his finger with his fish teeth as a sour goodbye, but those fish teeth turned out to be impossible to loosen, even when paw tried to pry its jaw open with his whole hand. lots of swearing and "IT HURTS! IT HURTS" later, paw was ready to come crawling to meh to ask her to bandage his three bleeding digits. she did so with obvious satisfaction. and now we're all suitably afraid of the triumphant tu-kay once more.

the end.

ps--while this is a cautionary tale against the evils of drunkenness, we must admit it was hilarious. pretty much everything meh and paw say in thai is hilarious. that's why we lurve it here.