Monkey Mayham

Yah.... I have loved monkeys all my life... i have gone so far as to write songs about their brilliance in my mind..."Monkey Town" anyone??? Yes, finally seen scores of monkeys everywhere in South East Asia after my disappointment in Australia was one of the highlights of my trip.... but then came the monkey from hell....

I was walking around a temple on the top of a mountain along the eastern coast of Thailand when i was beset by a monkey. That is correct folks... I was bitten by a monkey...3 times... What followed was rather crazy... I talked to some monks at the top of the mountain whose advice was simply "No" and a point towards the man monkey... ahh, ok, thanks, now i know that that monkey is mean for sure... check... i then went to the tourist information center in town and pointed to the bite and asked if there was anything special i needed to do about it... they called in like 5 experts, they consulted for a while and then determined that I needed to go to the hospital... So, 2 of them drove me out to the hospital, where i got 2 more people following me around which made the total 4 at that point.... i went to another room and got 2 nurses around me... they smeared some stuff on my bits and were then like "ok, we give you shot now, ok?" not ok.... i was not about to gt a shot i knew nothing about in the "mass casualty room" yah, that is what the room was called in English... translation difficulties, lets hope so.... so i went back to a computer, phoned home, and after a hour of consulting with no fewer than 6 medical experts, it was determined that i could get the shot for rabies in Thailand so long as it looked all hunky dory.... i went back into the hospital... walked straight into the Mass Casualty Room, got the "hello big white man what you need?" face from a nurse... had a nice Young English speaking Doctor come talk to me an give me my injection... the total cost ... $1.50 to talk to the Doctor and another $12 for the shot.... nice and cheap....then i went to the nearest 7eleven, snagged some Listerine and a toothbrush... scrubbed the hell out of my bites... and that was that... oh yah, i am talking some of the meds i brought with me from the states to prevent any infection and i have to get another injection in Bangkok, but other than that life is sweet....
stupid monkey!!!!