RE: Time to get wet this Songkran Festival

As someone that lived in Thailand for over a decade I ahve a lot of memories with this holiday. I enjoyed it when I lived down in the south in Krabi, where the lack of population kind of dictates that the water war only goes on for one day but when I moved to Chiang Mai later, they do it for a full week there. This gets very annoying after a while because at some point I have to return to my real life and don't want to be soaking wet all the time. There is a real lack of courtesy with a lot of these people who are near the side of the road ambushing people that don't even want to take part in it. One time I was traveling down the road on my motorbike and had a computer in my bag, told the women I saw there that I had a computer in my bag as I approached and they still threw water at me. This was 3 days after the official celebration day. That made me very angry and in the future I decided to just stay home during that week.

I think that Songkran is fun sure, but the people that are dragging it out for many days are taking it too far.