A Chinese scholar in Mexico's puta bar.
Tuesday night I was sitting at bar Kowloon, watching the strip show, waiting for my wingman to come back from a session. Next to me was a HK girl drinking fichas with her client all night.
An old mesero sidled over, asking me if I was Chinese. Well, I do feel very Chinese when I have good Chinese food, or eating out pretty Chinese girls, so I confirmed affirmative.
He asked me if I could translate something into Chinese for him. Sitting next to a pretty HK girl, I do feel like a great Chinese scholar, the favorite student of Master Confucius, so I said definitely. The girl wrote a word down on a napkin; "Angel. " I confirmed with him that he meant "angel" as the pretty, young, nubile creatures with wings, who supposedly give us the most heavenly sex in bed.
I had to figure out how Chinese would represent such sexy, flying creatures in their figurative written language. So I drew a stick figure with a coke-bottle torso, skinny arms, long legs, antennae on top of the head, just like what Martians would look like to us earthlings. The HK girl was so happy, smiling sweetly, securing the artifact into her Pravda hand bag. Just then the client slipped a $20 tip to the mesero. $20 for an uneducated Mexican meat head to do 30-second BS work? HK meseros and chicas are spoiled rotten by these irresponsible over tipping. It's not much different from throwing a big bundle of $100 bills in South Central LA and tell the mob to go get it for free at local banks. That kind of over tipping makes HK's meseros feel like powerful masters over their penny-pinching clients.
I came back asking the client why he paid money for the girl's translation. He said she asked for a Chinese translation of her son's half-Chinese first name, whose biological Chinese father had long absconded, so she can tattoo it on her left boobs. I remembered my stick figure of an angel looking more like a fat pig with wings. So I told the client to tell her to hold off the tattoo project until next week, when I come back with a more beautiful cursive Chinese calligraphy of the word.
This chica is known to have 3 kids with her Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese boyfriends. I am guessing she will soon want scholarly translations of the Korean and Vietnamese names. I just have to eat out a few more Korean and Vietnamese girls to qualify for the job hehe.
Minimum wage border towns.
Is presently about 90 pesos a day, or 12 peso or half an Al Pastor taco an hour. Obrador is propsosing to double that min wage to stimulate the sconomy.
So if a puta pulls 1 arriba a night at $100 or 2,000 pesos, she's making about 20 times Mexico's min wage workers. HK's popular girls have said they do 10 arribas or $1,000 a night average. They would be making 200 x min wage.
That's why lots of pretty young girls from all over Mexico would pack their bags and make the journey to Tijuana with hope of sending home $100 to 200 a day to their families.
"Business leaders and union representatives have also agreed to double the minimum wage along the border, to 176.2 pesos a day, the equivalent of $9. 07 at current exchange rates."
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