Don’t complain unless you offer solutions

Editor;

I was taught by a very smart boss who got things done... Don’t complain unless you offer solutions. I suggest all parking on Pattaya Tai Road be eliminated on BOTH sides of the street 24 hours per day. Create taxi stops for the songtaews to use only designated stopping areas. Make big fines for anyone double parked and enforce it on 2nd Road and Beach Road.

I suggest all sidewalks (foot paths) be at least 5 feet wide, eliminate vendors from sidewalks, and from setting up shop in the streets. I agree with the jet ski scam, eliminate jet ski rentals for a period of 3 months, then allow people to file for permits to rent, requiring they show proof of insurance, and make it clear they are responsible for all damages, not the tourists.

If anyone is reported for trying to rip off a tourist, the police should take all the jet skis away, and take away their license. Post signs on the beach of the new Law/Rules so tourists know the jet ski scam is over.

Fresh Farang

Plenty of coffee shops

Editor

Re: Three days without breakfast (Hillary, Friday, 03 August 2012). Just go out ‘’to take’’ breakfast. Pattaya has plenty of coffee shops where you can find a good cappuccino and croissants. Don’t be greedy. Even better, go together with the lady. She will enjoy.

Phoenix

Market rip-off

Editor;

I bought a loaf of bread at Friendship market (near Tucom) for 60 baht, brought it home and took off the wrapper (threw it away) and started taking the bread apart to put in the freezer. It was mouldy. So I put it in a plastic baggie and took it back to the store 2 days later.

The clerk took it and went to see the manager. She came back and said sorry, can do nothing.

Weird I thought but did not make a scene just left the store thinking, what kind of decision making is that? Take a chance on losing a customer for the 40 baht they paid for it. Not a big deal of course but this is just another example of poor logic and lack of common sense.

Dr. Quack

Khao Kheow have no responsibility

Dear Sirs,

Re: Jerry Langer’s complaint about Khao Kheow and the stolen watch. Mr Langer is in the wrong and Khao Kheow have no responsibility. Khao Kheow and every other golf club have a notice displayed in their locker rooms warning golfers not to leave valuables in the lockers and that they have a free safe in which they can deposit their valuables. It was up to him to avail of this service. If they were to accept all claims for losses they would not stay in business very long. How are they to know if anything is lost and what is to stop someone from claiming they lost something worth 66,000 baht or for that matter something worth 500,000 baht. I doubt very much if any golf club in America would accept responsibility if someone was to claim that they lost something worth 5 to 10,000 dollars which in American terms would be much the same as he lost. Because of his carelessness he is now asking his friends to boycott Khao Kheow and therefore make caddies and staff pay for his mistake. I very much hope his friends will know who was wrong and not support him. I have been playing golf in Khao Kheow for over 12 years and have always found the staff there exceptionally nice and friendly and it is a shame to try to make them pay for something they didn’t do.

Yours,

Joe McArdle

Should have left the watch in his car

Dear Editor,

Re. Mr. Jerry Langer’s comments about a locker room thief at Khao Kheow Country Club, I have been a member and played at a number of prestigious golf courses in the U.S. and other countries. I can say in all certainty that none of these clubs would reimburse a member or player of the golf course for a loss he/she claimed to have incurred by valuables being stolen from his/her locker in the club locker room. This would probably be setting a precedent whereby people would be claiming such losses every week or two before the situation got totally out of hand.

One has to question Mr. Langer’s wisdom in putting something as valuable as a 66,000 baht watch in a golf club locker. These lockers are primarily there for golfers to keep a change of clothes to put on following a golf game. The locks are fairly simple, and would be pretty easy for someone skilled at picking locks to open. There may even be a master key that would open all the lockers. I have in fact seen signs in locker rooms in a number of golf clubs specifically stating that the club takes no responsibility for items stolen from the lockers. It would have been far more prudent for Mr. Langer to have left the watch in his car or put it in his golf bag.

As far as his telling his American friends about this - I have never played the Khao Kheow Golf course, but I understand that it is an excellent golf course. If I liked the course, I would never let such an experience by a friend deter me from continuing to play there, and I’m sure that his American friends will be of a like mind.

R. L. Holt

Chiang Mai

Read the large print

Editor;

If every week Jerry Langer (Mailbag: Locker Room Thief) plays golf at Khao Kheow Country Club he should see a very, very large sign that warns against leaving valuables in a locker.

My wife and I have played golf every day for the past 12 months in Thailand, China, South Africa, Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand including Khao Kheow. Every locker room has the same warning. Does he have a receipt for the watch? Does he have the serial number and model number? Has the theft been reported to the police? Mr Langer has only himself to blame.

If I left my 1,815,000THB watch and my 1,320,000THB diamond ring in the locker room (yes I had them with me when I played at Khao Kheow last Wednesday) I would be at fault if I suffered a loss. My wife does not wear her 2,300,000 THB diamond rings and her 1,800,000 THB diamond watch and her 240,000 THB diamond bracelet when playing golf. What annoys is that Mr Langer seeks to blame someone else. I have lost fortunes several times in my 71 years on this earth. Each time I had only myself to blame.

Winston Doyle

Sydney, Australia

Mandatory signage for each jet ski vendor

Editor;

Re: Area police told to fix jet ski, traffic problems to help Thailand boost tourism (PM Friday, 03 August 2012). A shame that all of the jet ski vendors are being affected by the greedy illegal schemes of a few. Would the mandatory signage for each vendor, similar to license on the baht bus not help? This would allow users to review the companies and very quickly it would be obvious by their ratings who were reputable and who were not.

David

Just stop playing golf

Editor;

Re: Locker room thief (Mailbag, Friday, 03 August 2012). Sorry for your loss, Jerry, but after living here for several years, you should know not to leave expensive watches in your “locked” locker. As for KKGC, they will not care whether they lose you or your friends as customers. You will just be replaced by other angry golfers from another golf club, and you will replace them. Just stop playing golf.

Eddee Chalk

Ban the jet skis

Editor;

Re: Area police told to fix jet ski, traffic problems to help Thailand boost tourism (Friday, 03 August 2012) - Ban the jet skis. Problem solved. If Pattaya City really wants to solve the problem, it certainly doesn’t seem that way.

Roy Rogers

Burnt, runny breakfast

Editor;

Re: Three days without breakfast (Hillary, Friday, 03 August 2012). As a reward, why don’t you start making breakfast for your lady each morning upon her return? After one breakfast of burnt toast and runny eggs she will never let you cook again, which seems to be precisely what you want anyway. *grins* Look in the mirror and say to yourself for three days: “I am lucky to love someone who loves education.”

Robert

Don’t complain unless you offer solutions

Plenty of coffee shops

Market rip-off

Khao Kheow have no responsibility

Should have left the watch in his car

Read the large print

Mandatory signage for each jet ski vendor

Just stop playing golf

Ban the jet skis

Burnt, runny breakfast