Develop exceptional balance and multitasking abilities.
* Observe tight-skirted, high-heeled office ladies riding side-saddle on motorcycles while applying makeup. Copy and rehearse 'til perfect.
Forget Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Follow the local trend!
* Wear house slippers with stockings and office clothes.
* Wear a toasty jacket in the blazing heat.
* Slip on a pair of roongthawtae (extremely comfortable rubber flip flops) for daily errands, such as: going to the 7-11, picking up the laundry, meeting your lover.
(For ladies and ladies wannabes) Master the Sukhumvit Pavement Strut.
* Practice by wearing your high-heeled mules/pumps/shoes on Sukhumvit’s bumpy sidewalks. For an intensive course, pick a sidewalk that is being “repaired” (read: dug up again for the millionth time), so you can practice on both soft sand AND hard surface!
* Watch out for those hidden water pools hiding under unstable blocks!
* Extra points for gracefully avoiding motorcycle taxis “borrowing” the pavement during rush hour.
Get your Sexy Sukhumvit Poker Face down pat.
* This means not blinking an eye/dropping your jaw/start drooling when you see skimpily dressed, extremely friendly ladies calling and greeting their “friends”.
Appreciate the joys of the sabai, relaxed life.
* Occupy both sides of the escalator (who needs the right side to rush?).
* Escalators and lifts are there for a reason. Use them.
* Walk slowly, hand-in-hand with your bestest friend, talking about the latest gossip on a busy, crowded, steamy Sukhumvit pavement.
* Use your free 
time to catch up on some zzz’s.
* Hell, sleep anywhere, anytime!! Here's a perfect example on the left - a quick-thinking construction worker has hung hammocks inside a pickup truck~!! I gotta give kudos to this dude - after hard physical labor, he can stretch and relax on his own personal hammock, enjoying the sway of the pickup truck and the soft Sukhumvit "breeze"~!!
Train your taste buds to awe-inspiring heights.
* Know the difference between the 30 baht and 40 baht khao man gai on Sukhumvit 38.
* Truly believe that roadside pollution actually makes moo ping and gai yaang even more delicious.
* Gain the ability of psychic food ordering (just show your face, and your regular street food vendor already knows what want, exactly how you want it).
* Consider Thai food sold in airconed (read: clean) restaurants to be unauthentic and wimpy.
I wanna be a Sukhumvit local, too~!! 
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The psychic food ordering ability is probably the ultimate Local's power. I still have much to improve. 
