Every time His Majesty made a visit at any place, no matter how hot the sun was or how strong wind blew, the villagers had never given up their intention or lost their patience to wait for His Majesty to come. Even when it rained heavily, no one wanted to go home. An article by Capt. Sriratna Hariruks, “His Majesty’s Powerful Charisma at Tha Yang”, in the book entitled, “72 Years of the Great Political Scientist Monarch”, tells a brief but wonderful story that once at the Huay Sut Yai Project it was raining quite heavily when His Majesty’s helicopter arrived. The local government officials and villagers, who lined up to welcome His Majesty were all soaking wet but stood orderly in their lines.
As His Majesty stepped down from the helicopter, one of His Majesty’s aides-de-camp from the Palace Police Unit stepped up to His Majesty with an umbrella to protect His Majesty from being wet by the rain. His Majesty, seeing all local officials and villagers standing firmly in their lines, all of them being soaking wet in the rain, told the Aide-de-camp to keep the umbrella and walked in the rain to greet the officials and villagers closely and got soaking wet the same with all of them.”