Pattaya is worse, it is almost impossible to get one to go anywhere without paying 200THB, and you can forget the meter.
It just isn't the sort of knowledge that's easy to come by.
There are more than 30,000 books on the Vietnam War in print.
This is not a very scientific study, merely a few observations. They never refuse to take you, automatically put the clock on, are clean and smartly dressed and whilst struggling to understand us sometimes are incredibly honest and polite.
Thai taxi drivers are, for the most part, arseholes, there really is no other word for it.
Maybe not perfect knowledge, but a reasonable picture anyway. But it killed several million Vietnamese and severely affected—and I mean severely—the lives of many millions more. Missing in Action (From Our Histories) From American histories, you would think the primary feature of the Vietnam War was combat. Suffering was the main characteristic of the war in Southeast Asia.
Or you can read several hundred of the middling-to-poor books and, if you pay special attention to the few real truths buried in all the run-of-the-mill war stories, you'll still get some feeling for war American-style. Millions of Vietnamese suffered: injuries and deaths, loss, privation, hunger, dislocation, house burnings, detention, imprisonment, and torture.
Teenagers and young people as well as married people see buying condoms at the drugstore a difficult and challenging task.
"Mentioning condoms, they would immediately think about sex.
The main problem with most of those books is the complete lack of Vietnamese voices. Some experienced one or another of these every day for years on end. Vietnamese are bit characters in American histories of the war, Vietnamese civilians most of all.
For example, Tuan, a fourth-year male student at a university in Hanoi, was afraid to step into a pharmacy to buy condoms.