American Psycho-babble
I suggest you carefully choose the company you keep.
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Awesome! This has been a contenious debate between myself and my father over the last few days. He likes to bitch and say I don't follow the rules.
My rebuttal is, exactly which set of rules should I be following here? There seems to be lots of different sets of rules out there, all depending on who you are, what your occupation is, who your friends and family are, how much money you have, what country you were born in, what your skin color is, and so on.
Not to mention, the rules are constantly changing. So which set of rules exactly am I supposed to abide by?
I'm getting treated like some hardened criminal who can't even be trusted with a spoon on an airplane, yet I turn on the news and Trump is still in the Whitehouse. Something doesn't add up here.
SG sadly it might be your role to be the ugly one in a friendship... Providing a valuable service by making everyone else look better.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is King?
In the land of the hideous the plain man is a Lothario?
Hmmm...I guess I do not have a career as a writer.
No, I'm still pretty adamant this is bullshit.
1.) If this was 2015, none of this would have been an issue, and I'd currently be sitting at my new house in Vientiane with my husband and dogs.
2.) My punishment is being unable to enter Thailand until April 2023. Got it, fully accepting of it. Killing my dogs, and dedtroying the lives and futures of both myself and Leo seems a little harsh on the punishment side.
3.) My first husband overstayed his Canadian visitor VISA by 5 years, and the only thing the government did to him was give him permanent residency status to Canada.
4.) I now find myself fucking around with immigration lawyers in Vancouver to try and convince the Canadian government to simply process a passport application. According to the government this is a huge ask I guess, because my passport has more than 12 months validity on it.
The 5 year blacklisting is punishment enough, and is actually quite harsh compared to international norms. That's why the customs officer in Vancouver was quite confident I must be lieing and must have committed a criminal offense in Thailand, because a 5 year blacklisting for overstay seemed abnormally harsh to him.
and now, in addition,you remind us that:
"3.) My first husband overstayed his Canadian visitor VISA by 5 years, and the only thing the government did to him was give him permanent residency status to Canada."
Obviously overstayed with your knowledge.
You know what, I wanted to stay in Thailand only an extra 30 days last month and went through all the hassle of a border run. Just to get a fucking rubber stamp. A day out of my life, notwithstanding the expense.
Its criminals, like you, taking advantage, that piss me off.
I can't see how a Canadian overstayng his visa in a nondescript eastern Thai city can piss anyone off.
It didn't. People aren't stupid, so quite obviously everyone in my area knew I wasn't there legally. Nobody cared though, because they knew I was a good guy, and the only thing they cared about was that I spent money at their shops / stalls.
The police didn't even care, especially the ones in Nong Khai as they were great.
The person who does care though is that dickhead xeneophobic general who decided to seize power in a military coup in May 2014 because he thought he'd like to be prime minister, and has since refused to hold elections. It's his government that implemented these blacklisting laws in 2016.
Even so, that's now all over and no longer matters. Now everything hinges on some retarded regulation that Canada won't process a passport application if your existing passport has more than 12 months of validity. I'm totally bewildered by this.
Call me crazy, but that fucken regulation doesn't seem like a very good reason to let my dogs die, and destroy mine and Leo's lives and futures.