Angelo's post with reference to Thai saloon society reminded me of something that happened to me on my last trip:
No food!
I sat in the Morning & Night bar enjoying the music having a cold beer when a voice at my right shoulder said "I bring beautiful lady for you". Well in truth she wasn't very beautiful and she was very shy, so shy that I couldn't really get her name! We chatted for little while over a couple of drinks. It turned out that the company she had worked for had closed and she hadn't been able to get another job, so her friend had brought her to the bar to "free lance".
It became apparent as we talked, that she was well educated and spoke some French and Spanish as well as reasonable English. It also became apparent that she had no money and hadn't eaten all day and wanted me to bar fine her!
Frankly I wasn't all that interested and was actually on my way to another bar so I paid the tab and gave her some money to get a meal from one of the numerous street vendors.
Question? How many people would have taken advantage of her plight and taken her back to their hotel for some 1000.00 Baht ST sex which I am sure she would have been terrified of and neither of us would have enjoyed. Or did I do the wrong thing by giving her money to get a meal and simply postponing the inevitable?
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We all know the stories that bar girls can concoct and this is written exactly as it happened to me. She certainly looked very thin and as though a good mean might actually do her more harm than good and she was well educated. I have no reason not to believe that she was anything other than what her friend had purported her to be.
No food!
I sat in the Morning & Night bar enjoying the music having a cold beer when a voice at my right shoulder said "I bring beautiful lady for you". Well in truth she wasn't very beautiful and she was very shy, so shy that I couldn't really get her name! We chatted for little while over a couple of drinks. It turned out that the company she had worked for had closed and she hadn't been able to get another job, so her friend had brought her to the bar to "free lance".
It became apparent as we talked, that she was well educated and spoke some French and Spanish as well as reasonable English. It also became apparent that she had no money and hadn't eaten all day and wanted me to bar fine her!
Frankly I wasn't all that interested and was actually on my way to another bar so I paid the tab and gave her some money to get a meal from one of the numerous street vendors.
Question? How many people would have taken advantage of her plight and taken her back to their hotel for some 1000.00 Baht ST sex which I am sure she would have been terrified of and neither of us would have enjoyed. Or did I do the wrong thing by giving her money to get a meal and simply postponing the inevitable?
.......
We all know the stories that bar girls can concoct and this is written exactly as it happened to me. She certainly looked very thin and as though a good mean might actually do her more harm than good and she was well educated. I have no reason not to believe that she was anything other than what her friend had purported her to be.
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