Not my Specs

My Thai teacher is a 34 year old shy man who really wants to get married and have kids. “Poo Ying Suay” (beautiful ladies) is the topic of a bout 60% of our conversations in class. Yesterday he was telling me about a date he went on but the girls was ‘not his specs’. Like she’s a computer and has specifications. I found this hilarious. In Thai you actually say “Kao mai SPECS pom” literally “she does not have my SPECS”. I love it.

So nosey me asked why she wasn’t his specs and his immediate answer was “too much self-confidence” which made me throw up a little bit in my mouth. (Dude, you’d hate American chicks). Then he went on to explain to me this proverb about how men should be the front legs of an elephant and women should be the back legs that follow, but this woman wanted to be the front legs! Furthermore she was the same age as him which meant that she didn’t have a lot of childbearing years ahead of her which was unacceptable. So his search for Poo Ying Suay continues. Maybe he could put out a newspaper ad “34 year old Thai man seeks woman with right Specs: preference for being back legs with many childbearing years ahead”. Hilarious.