Dear Ping River,

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Puh Lao! Enough! I know it keeps raining on you, but for the love of Buddha, stop flooding! Really, this is all starting to get old. I'm sick of sandbags and I'm sick of detours. Perhaps this is some sort of macho "I'm a mighty river", thing, but it's just not necessary. We love you just the way you are - inside your banks. Last I heard you hadn't made inside our house, and I appreciate that, I do. But its stopped raining now, so I think its time you went back down. Sitting around and waiting to see if we'll be flooded again is a bit tiresome. We've just painted the house after the last flood, we have all new beds, and the stinky water smell is all gone. We like it that way, and it would be really inconsiderate if you flooded us again. Plus, the cat was pretty freaked out last time, and the poor thing doesn't deserve to go through all that again. Alright, do we have an understanding, then? You go home, I go home, and we're all happy.