Night #2 and the Freebie that wasn't
ok, so night #2 and i am still not really feeling like doing anything. out to a business dinner and back to the hotel around 9:30. i do some work in the room and decide it is time to check out what is happening around the shangri la where i am staying.
i peek into the hotel bar and see what looks to be a working chinese girl sitting alone in the bar with an empty chair next to her. i consider taking the seat but figure if she is working the shangri la she is looking for megabucks. she is not really the greatest looking, more like a 6 or 7 on a scale of 10. not really my type, but not totally rejectable.
so i go out to check out sticky fingers. as usual they have a great band in there playing. i manage to stand there for a whole set with no one, including the waitresses bothering me. but in the sparse crowd i don't see any girls of interest.
i meander on out and am now debating whether i want to walk over to the holiday inn. but i am lazy and not really horny and decide to go back to the hotel. i can't resist checking on my one chinese working girl to see how she is doing. and guess what, she is still sitting there alone. i can't resist and take the stool next to her.
at first she is pretty quiet but then we get to talking. she is 25, from beijing and has been in hk for a week. so now i figure it is time to get the pitch to take he up to the room. but when i ask what she is doing in hk, she tells me she is here working on a film. she is the director's assistant. i am naturally suspicious but just maybe there is a freebie in here. she tells me she has to work the next day at 9am - a real working girl maybe.
she keeps telling my how she really likes to mixed race babies and wants one of her own. this gets repeated several times and she is telling me how she wants a western nose like mine. am i being set up to be a sperm donor? the thought does cross my mind.
she sticks to the film story although i keep trying to shake it. we talk and close the bar in the hotel. i suggest we heard over to sticky fingers and see the band for one more drink. she agrees and even tells me she is willing to just go up to the room. but i figure if this is going to be a freebie, i should not appear too anxious.
over in stickly fingers the place is now more filled up with filipino working girls. but as per my previous observations there the clientel is older and the girls equally over the hill. i only saw one or two i would bother with.
we do one drink there and then it is back to the room. i think this is going to be something, a freebie in hk. but alas, back in the room just when the action is about to begin, she asks if i am going to give her money. what the f**k?
she wanted $2000 hk and after the previous night, there was no way she could have compared to that at much less for overnight. she only wanted the money to go shopping. since i was not thinking of doing any mongering i had not changed any money and was low on hk money. she offered to take my us cash, but in the end i decided it wasn't worth it. it was late and i had to get up early.
i gave her $100hk for generous cab fare. i told her she can't spring the money thing at the last minute. if she had been upfront downstairs, i would have told her no thanks and been on my way, but she stuck to this story that she was an normal girl and never talked about money . i kind of knew all along that this would be the outcome and maybe i should have brought up the money myself, but when she claims she is there on normal business, i am not going to insult her by offering money. i know that is a good way to get a drink thrown in your face with many non-working girls.
so the freebie in the end wasn't. i had a good time though for a while. if i had not had the great night before, i might been angry. but all in all this made for a soft adventure and story - i probably would not have been any good last night anyway. i don't think there was much left from the first one.
I believe that strategy is known as...
Selling Short Against the Box ;-)
[QUOTE=Neuromancer]With the cratering of the Hang Seng over the past few days, maybe it's a good chance to go bargain shopping!
Not very familiar with the Flipper scene, but many of the 141 girls I've know like to play the market. When the market goes down so severely, they realize that they need to work harder!
Thoughts?[/QUOTE]