A Date-In-Asia Love Story
As told by Mac Payne:
I met a girl online at Date in Asia, we chat and cam together for over 6 months before I decided she was worth a visit. She never asked me for a single penny in all that time, she telling me her father was a police sergeant and her mother was a school teacher. Anyway, I looked into accommodation for us to stay while I'm there. She came up with the idea of us renting a small 2-bedroom cottage, on a security estate, so very safe.
I sent the deposit to her for 25,000 pesos around $500 for the month which I thought was a bit expensive being it's Surigao in Mindanao, a one horse town to say the least, but then it has security so I thought it's ok. When I arrived on the day, I was met at the airport by her whole family of 10 including brothers and sisters and their boyfriends and girlfriends, wow what a welcome I thought!
I was escorted by her father to a mini bus and off we went, only to stop at a posh hotel restaurant, to which everybody including the van driver ordered what they wanted including beers. I naively thought wow this guy is rich to treat me so good, until that is the bill was called and it was directed at me. Wow shocker! It was over 6000 pesos, just over $120, that really set the mood for me. I told them to take me to the cottage where again surprise number 2, she had spent my deposit money on her family to pay their college fees.
Well I was feeling really stupid at the time, and told her very angrily never mind I'm going to find a hotel to stay on my own and I will meet her at a later date, to which she turned on the tears and pleaded with me to let her stay with me. I reluctantly agreed and that was over 30,000 pesos up the spout for what was a mediocre shag.
The next morning, we were on our way out for breakfast when we were met by the whole family again, looking for breakfast on me! I told her old man to piss off back where he came from in no uncertain terms. Policeman or no policeman, he was a scammer and I told him so. How did they know where we were staying? Well that was easy she had texted them on her cell phone. Then if only to add more salt on my already festering wound, she presented me with all their house told bills for over another 5000 pesos. I ripped the bills from her hand screwed them up and threw them in her face, told her to fuck off and walked away.
But did they get the message? No, of course not! They just see you as an ATM. They followed me until I grabbed a passing moto taxi and sped off, leaving them agasp. I then checked myself into another hotel far the other end of town, and later went back to check out of the first hotel and collect my things, only to find her waiting there in the lobby. This was quite late in the evening, she started to make a scene, and I called for hotel security, and she eventually left.
I was looking over my shoulder for the rest of my vacation. God almighty what was I going to do in this poxy one horse town for a month, scared to go out by day for fear of being shot by her crazy father or followed and pestered by the family. It was hell on earth I can tell you, I was now limited on funds so I could not afford to travel far, if not I would have grabbed a flight out has soon has possible. I've never been back there to the Philippines nor do I ever wish to.