'Quiet pint' in England ends in Thailand
Everyone has had a night at the pub get out of control, but two friends in the United Kingdom have set a new standard.
What was supposed to be a quiet drink in Middlebrough’s Southern Cross pub for Phillip Boyle and Jamie Blyth finished up 12,000 kilometres away… in Thailand, the Daily Mail reports.
It all started innocently enough.
“A quiet pint” turned into many pints and before they knew it was 11am the next day and the pair were nursing substantial hangovers.
It was at this point that Mr Boyle had a bright idea.
“After lots of jokes, at around 11 am the next day with a hangover, Jamie asks if I had my passport handy and came up with the idea of us going to Thailand straight away,” Mr Blythe told the Daily Mail.
“I thought he was joking at first and then he pointed out how there are quite a few lads from Middlesbrough over there we hadn’t seen for a while.”
With that a taxi was called and the pair made for Manchester Airport, about two hours drive away.
The taxi driver revealed this was not the first time Mr Boyle had taken to the skies on a whim, and that this was the fourth time the lucky cabby had been called to provide spur of the moment transport to the airport.
An amused taxi driver and two seven hour flights later the fuzzy-headed duo were in the notorious resort town of Pattaya, armed with little more than shopping bags stuffed with t-shirts.
Not every is happy about the lads’ re-enactment of the Hangover but the two single 33-year-olds say they have no regrets.
“Some of the lads have serious girlfriends and kids and it's been pretty intense for some of them,” Mr Boyle told the Daily Mail.
“I wouldn't like to be facing the grief that some of them will be inevitably going home to.
“But no-one's misbehaved to be fair. I think it's a place where younger lads would perhaps go crazy. I'm single right now - so no consequences to face for me.”
Mr Boyle and Mr Blythe are reportedly now making their way back home.
