Ok, so let's first establish the fact that it's 0640 in the morning here and I've been drinking all night so forgive any misspellings or grammatical errors. I just saw something else that left a bad taste in my mouth.
I was at a bar drinking all night and when it finally closed down about 30 minutes ago, a cute bargirl (who I would have bar fined if I wasn't so fucking drunk) and I went to get something to eat. We went to a food vendor and as we were standing on Soi 22 waiting to order, the old woman who ran the food stand gathered up a bunch of food and took it to a Buddhist monk who was standing about 10 feet away with a fucking container in his hand to hold food. When she came back her and the girl I was with conversed briefly when the girl went over to a table about 6 feet away that contained a platter with flowers on it. The girl (named Kung) brought a platter over and the lady who ran the food stand filled it up with food. Then, Kung took the platter of food over to the monk, took off her shoes, and bowed down to her knees and put her forehead on the ground while the monk took the food and and put it in the container while another monk took the flowers off the platter. The whole time, I was intensely staring at this worthless motherfucker when he made eye contact with me and immediately diverted his gaze. Kung came skipping over absolutely delighted at being able to do this. I swear, this is the closest I have ever came to punching a monk.
Those who know me know I'm no fan of religion, but until now I've always given Buddhism a pass. No fucking more. We finally got our food and walked back toward some tables to eat it and the whole time I was staring down this fucking guy who thinks he's so special but he wouldn't make eye contact with me. I didn't say anything to her because her English is bad and I couldn't make her understand that this guy isn't special and doesn't deserve to have someone bow at his feet. It was degrading, but she didn't know she was being degraded and it made me angry and sad.
