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I always loved the rain in Thailand as it gives me the chance to catch up on much need beauty sleep at this time of year. It keeps tourists from my shop door - they stay away in droves as it is and the rain just cements this arrangement and I hop off to bed. In my naivety I thought having a massive pie above the door and a sign saying PIE SHOP, would inform people of our wares. Are they really all Simons?
Great for business on the wholesale side as many people stay in resort, in the bars or at home and munch on our cold climate food. Sales are up again as the rainy season has set in again 4 months early by the looks of it. What better on a cold January afternoon than to tuck into steak and kidney pie, mash and gravy.
Our exercise routine of a morning is a rain dance and then off to the market for steak. It's always steak, steak and kidney and cornish pasties that sell well when it rains. Hotter weather favouring scotch eggs quiche and cold pork pies and the like.
Spare a thought though for the guys coming back from the Similan Islands. It can be a hairy old ride back when these storms descend on a small speedboat. I was once on a boat that took a wave in the back and nearly sank. It was only about 20 miles out, but when it got dark and we were drifting (bailing out as we went) south, the ocean gave us a reminder of its size, power and remoteness. Hats off to the Yamaha V6 2 stroke engines as they fired up within an hour of being submerged or it would have been a long tow back to Tapla moo. They may not be Environmentally friendly, but they start, go, get you there and make the most beautiful screaming noise imaginable, which is important to us guys.
With a bar, rain can work both ways, customers rained at the bar ;-) in or rained in at home:-( Pot luck really, but for F&B rain is not always a bad thing.
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