Sean's parents' flight ended up being delayed a bit. Sean and I sat upstairs and made up stories about the people downstairs again. We saw a lot of "Thai girlfriends" who were meeting up with their farang boyfriends, a lot of Japanese tour groups, backpackers...and then there was a "Ronald McBoyfriend", so called by the Lonely Planet when a greying guy dyes his hair (red) when he is going to meet the girl's parents. Ronald McBoyfriend was with his Thai girlfriend waiting for someone.
Eventually, we moved downstairs when the time got closer. McBoyfriend was quite interesting. He was a very dorky, akward guy with a Dragonballz t-shirt on. He would put his arms around his Thai girlfriend and she would stand there with her arms crossed, seemingly distant. Akward touches, she would never show affection back. He was maybe in his 30's, maybe going grey early - in patches. His hair was dyed very patchily -- like dark brown (natural), and reddish patches of hair mixed in. It looked really awful.
McBoyfriend ended up meeting his sister at the airport. She seemed excited and inquisitive of his new girlfriend. The sister liked how his hair was done (ack!). The three of them walked out of the crowd and out of the airport, with sister asking a million questions about his Thai girlfriend.
Sean's parents took a while to get out. Both of us were exhausted, and ready to go home. Finally, they appeared around 1:20am -- their flight landed at 12:00am. We caught a cab from downstairs, who seemed to take us the long way about town. He would open his door and spit out huge loogies at stop lights. One time, he caught a loogie on the inside of his door, so he used a hankerchief to wipe it off. It was pretty disgusting. But all in all, the fare was not too much higher than normal, so it was no problem. We didn't get to the Atlanta till about 2am...
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