Pattaya: A place which is going to be more aggressive and more rude day after day
After 1 year and 6 months I came back to Pattaya. If you (same me) have been in Pattaya before, you can maybe notice, that people in Pattaya have been more aggressive now, compared to earlier visits to Pattaya. Generally, Thai people in Pattaya have never been polite, compared to Thai people in other regions of Thailand. But now I can only describe them very rude. Even you are polite and talk nice to them, you may meet very aggressive reply from them. Last week I and a friend of mine were walking on Beach Road. As my friend should go to the WC, I should wait for him. Just around Central Festival, while I was going to sit down on the Beach Road, a freelancer said to me: "You forget me". I replied friendly and said "If you forget me, I forget you". Then she made a hand-gesture and said "You go, go, go!" I told to the freelancer, that she talked to me, and I talked to her. I talked her friendly. But she was not friendly, but hostile. She said "sorry". But hearing "You go, go, go!" in a place where you make holiday is not that nice at all. (This gesture is actually equal to show fuck-finger.)
On this trip it wasn't the last time I heard "You go, go, go!" from Thai people in Pattaya. I was talking with a street-painter on the end of Walking Street, on my way to Mixx. I was very drank, but very friendly. He replied very aggressively. After he said "You, go, go, go!", I was ready to leave him. As I was very drank, I showed my fuck-finger. And he began to hit my face with a chair. I run from that crazy man with bleeding lips. (All right, it was not right to show a fuck-finger at all. But as I told, I was very drank. I am not justifying my fuck-finger. But begin to hit a drank man on his face was definitely a crazy action!).
As a result of such bad communications and attack from Thai people in Pattaya, I and my friend decided to ignore Thai people who talk to us. (We definitely not reply "Hello, taxi" and "Hello, massage"-approach any more). Yesterday we were walking on Beach Road around 3 pm. As we should exchange first, we came on the shopping-side of Beach Road. A man was saying "Hello. Boat to Koh Lorn". We ignored him, as he was behind us, and as we didn't see him at all. We were not sure, that he was talking to us either. But he followed us around 2-3 minuttes. And saying "Hello. Can you speak?","Hello, do you have a mouth?" etc. He didn't give up, and we didn't give up to ignore him. And before he gave up, he said "Fuck you!" to us. And that sentence we ignored too.
Summa summarum: Pattaya is a place which is going to be more aggresive and more rude day after day. Be aware of that aggresive atmosphere here, and try to ignore all those people, which you don't have to speak to, if you want to make a good holiday.