Congrats on retirement. Congrats on all of it. Gratitude is some of the only work that when done consistently can really change us. ✌🏼

@Max *********

bro. All I did was turn to you for a moment to clarify that I wasn’t 💩 on you. it seems like your response to my show of care and respect was an insult. Saying rude things to people and then saying don’t take it personal it’s just Facebook is ridiculous. Human beings speak to each other and when they make personal insults, it is personal. I went out of my way to make sure you knew I wasn’t insulting you. I’m good. I’ve cleaned up my mess. People don’t want to be accountable for anything they say or do and say it’s just Facebook.

Sometimes I let it roll off my back, of course, but I’m a human being, and I made an actual gesture toward you and look at my result. I am not the problem and Facebook is not the problem. People are the problem and terror of taking any accountability ever is the problem. #Fukem I’m still gonna do what’s right ✌🏼

@Max *********

you mean me? Did clarifying and being decent to you earn me an insult? It’s hardly triggered but that’s another term thrown around as an insult in lieu of actual conversation 🤷🏻‍♀️

I took the time to address you and clarify and show respect- did I get insulted for that? WTF 🤦🏻‍♀️

@Charlie ********

oh no I didn’t think you were talking about me, thanks for circling back tho ☺️

I know I’m not unkind and I know people that eschew accountability want to say pragmatism is unkind 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oh well.

@Charlie ********

I think there’s a difference in being not surprised and being confused with why someone is talking about a misfortune that they created- and taking pleasure in it. It’s don’t take pleasure in it- I am totally confused by it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Listen- no shade to you

@Max *********

- a lot of my comments here are spilling out because I’ve heard a dozen of these experiences this week. It’s just frustrating to me personally when people are surprised or want someone to fix something that they’ve already screwed up.

For all, I know you have a beautiful loving family in Thailand you need to be present. No shame to you personally it’s just that I’ve spent a week listening to people lamenting that were just honestly… Their time was up. It happens. I don’t wish you any ill will 😊

I took an opportunity to gripe. I didn’t mean to call you out specifically.

@Milan *******

ah yes- the golden years 😂

Covid 🤬 everything. Every government and all the easy ones for travelers used that pandemic time to tighten up 😭

@Francois *******

while I agree that this group is mostly pretty mean, I don’t know what advice we could give in a case like this?

It’s like someone saying “I keep cutting my finger a little bit every day and oh no I am shocked it fell off”

My analogies are trash today 🙈 - sleep, I need sleep.

@Leo ******

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@Graham *****

but most people don’t really really understand what they’re doing and they’re just stumbling through. Terminology and laws are played fast and loose, and many just copy what they think they’ve heard others say they do and it works. Then there are agents who fix for a price and many of their clients honestly don’t understand how they’re still staying- they just stay.

A lot of layers in the situation but at the end of the day, just because you can get away with something doesn’t mean you should, so excessively? Any real traveler has paid a few gifts and bent a few rules but I get tired of people breaking laws and violating agreements excessively because ‘I can because there are loopholes- blame the system’ and then they’re legit angry when the system that overlooked it, suddenly doesn’t- like they are being victimized now because they can’t keep cheating.

Accountability is a rare and beautiful thing.