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Sunday, March 28, 2010

LAST ORDERS

For Haiku Bones – Two o’clock


LICENSING LAW ENFORCED

Go home now, sleeping
Time to close bar, two o’clock
No drinking whiskey


An actual instruction to me from a policeman
in a Bangkok bar circa 2002.

13 comments:

  1. my favourite was 'take up your bike and walk' when found trying to pedal home after a light...er... liquid lunch in 1976

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  2. These "last orders" have a regimental finality! Crisp expression!

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  3. Thanks to:
    John; I know someone who was arrested for being drunk in charge of a bike.
    Rashmi; I didn't think so at the time.
    GT; It was part of a big police crack down on all night opening.
    Nalini; A poet and he didn't know it!
    Magical; Yeah, I was only drinking beer...

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  4. well that must be where my person was!

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  5. Thanks to;
    Gautami; Oh, snoozing, I thought you said boozing!
    Fourwinds; I don't remember, I was pretty drunk at the time...

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  6. that was funny... the possibility of crawling home may be exaggerated in my mind tho...

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  7. Thanks One more believer; ...Once you've picked yourself up off the floor...

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  8. Woops, I was thinking of switching to beer at two. :(
    It's said people write about what they know (or wish they knew?). But you didn't have to fess up.
    ..

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  9. Thanks Jim; A lot of Bangkok bars used to stay open all night. I think 2am is enforced across the board now.

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