Tuk-Tuk And the Apollo Lunar Missions

Something kept hush-hush to avoid public embarrassment was the recent discovery that crafty tuk-tuk drivers had already beaten the first lunar mission to the moon, upon forecasting a gap in the transportation market. This truth had been systematically swept under the rug until recently leaked by a disgruntled CIA clerk: code-named “Ping Pong Show.”

In the above recently discovered photograph, we see an increasingly frustrated Neil Armstrong contending with a driver, who’s obviously mistaken him for a hippy backpacker, over the fact that he does not want to go to the nearest full-moon party, but instead merely needs to get back to his ship before his oxygen runs out. This was also in addition to trying to charge Armstrong an extra 20 baht for the space suit!

This just goes to show you that even though NASA had in fact trained its astronauts in the ability to communicate in a myriad of the earth’s languages, pidginized Thai-glish spoken by a mumbly-mouthed Bangkok cab driver on the outskirts of the moon wasn’t one of them. So don’t feel bad. Even exclamations such as “Whae you go?” and “You nee tuk-tuk?” can befuddle the uber-lingual of the space programme.