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RE: πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘§ Squattin' Round The Ole' Puri Fire πŸ”₯ & We Win The Propane Lottery 🎰

in ASEAN HIVE COMMUNITY β€’ 4 years ago

how thrilling to get some propane finally. In the time that I have spent living overseas I have never seen there be a shortage of this product, there always seemed to be a massive surplus of it. Not so long ago, we were also told to boil our own water but the issue wasn't the lack of drinking water, it was the fact that we were not allowed to leave our houses to obtain it an the government didn't do a very good job of planning the logistics of getting drinking water delivered to over a million people. I think this might have been the catalyst that lead to them dropping the ban on leaving houses because people can only be oppressed so much.

We gotta celebrate the little victories during these times I guess.

On another note I gotta say that I am impressed if you can hold that "squat" position for a long period of time. Even though I have been in Asia for nearly 20 years, that is not a skill I ever obtained even though it just seems to come naturally to the locals.

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I too never saw shortages of hardly any kind in Cambodia. It is a huge adjustment from living in a country that produces too much food and textiles, to a country that is fully reliant upon shipping containers and a shady gold mining industry.

You noticed the "squat," that makes me laugh. Sometimes when I'm in the USA standing outside with friends, my back begins hurting so I bust out the Cambo-squat for some temporary relief, only to have everyone stare at me and start asking lots of questions.

I'm sure SE Asia has rubbed off on you in many ways, and you would probably look like a fish out of water hanging out in 'Merica and talking bout' 'Merican stuff like sports, weather, and reality TV shows.

You are not wrong about the reverse culture shock. I recall one time when i was hanging out with some old friends after being out of the country for a decade and I had to be warned to not say some of the stuff that I was saying because it was now considered offensive despite the way that it was the same way that all of us used to speak "back in the day." It seems that since i left everyone has become ultra-sensitive and humor is something you have to be very careful with. I'm not a fan of that.

I can almost envision it...