Day 16: one of those nights
When I write these diaries I try to give a completely honest portrayal, good or bad. I don't sugarcoat things. So far on this trip I've had a great time but tonight was a horror show.
I spent early afternoon videoing for my friend's Youtube channel. At one point I was videoing a dog being given a hosepipe shower by its owner, when it leapt at me, soaking me in the process. This moment of comedy misfortune would be the story of the day.
We headed to soi 7. It was 3. 45 pm and the beer bars were quiet but showing signs of life. But the bars further up the street were busy. A7-DJ bar had lots of pretty girls but beware, this is a live stream bar so good luck taking any of them back to your hotel with you. Hookup Bar at the junction of soi 7 was also busy as there was a birthday party going on.
I decided to seek out some afternoon action. I walked down soi Honey but didn't see any honeys and it was the same story on soi Pothole. I remember in days gone by you'd be spoilt for choice on these streets but aside from the occasional hidden gem, there is very little to get excited about these days.
So I abandoned my plan and took the opportunity to relax in my room for a few hours.
I met Sam at 7 pm outside Subway and we started the night with a drink at Vixen. The girl I've barfined twice was with a customer and so was the new girl Sam has got his sights set on.
It was Sunday evening and light rain was falling so Tree Town was quiet. We had a drink in Pretty Bar, which didn't live up to its name but beer was just 59 baht as it was happy hour. 08 bar is set back in the corner and also had cheerful older girls. In contrast to the rock music blaring out at other bars, this one had country & western which made it a good place to relax and watch the world go by.
The prettiest girl at Area 52 was in her casual clothes, sat with a middle-aged German man. He's barfined her at least three night in a row and it seems was making the rookie mistake of falling for a girl. Soon his holiday will be over, or his money will run out, and he'll be heartbroken when he realised how transactional his romance is.
Sam likes to spoil his favourite girl. He buys her ladydrinks and gives her 100 baht to get food (I had a taste and my lips were still burning five minutes later). Tonight she wasn't feeling well so Sam paid her barfine and told her to go home and rest. I can't help feeling nice gestures like that will result in her being ill more often!
Feeling hungry I went to a restaurant on the corner of Tree Town and devoured a pork fried rice, which cost 90 baht.
Just like the other bars, Oh Bar was quiet with not many girls. One of my favourite girls here is a girl who works behind the bar. While the other girls wear low-cut tops and sexy outfits, she dresses more modestly and is more desirable as a result. She was wearing a pretty floral dress and hugging a cuddly toy I presume a customer had bought her.
I decided to backtrack to Vixen and barfine my favourite girl for the third time. I bought her a ladydrink but she wasn't her usual fun and flirty self, perhaps distracted by a group of three guys buying shots for the other girls at the back of the bar. Or perhaps it was something else. Strangely she accused me of having a girlfriend which is not the case. Perhaps that's Thai-speak for barfining other girls, or perhaps Sam who I know for a fact wants to barfine her when I'm back in England, has told her something to stir the pot. Either way, I found it irritating. I'd come to Vixen to barfine her but she was giving me grief. I paid my chit and left.
There weren't many unaccompanied pretty girls at Annie Jacks and I was joined by a 40 year old who just wouldn't take the hint I didn't want to buy her a drink.
It was turning in to a frustrating night so I paid my bill and said goodnight to Sam, before going to soi Diana and buying a drink for the cute girl I barfined from one of beer-bar complexes the night before. It was nice to get a warm welcome and she gave me a kiss on the lips before I left. I love the names of some these bars. Dick Inn, Pussy Bar, Inn Love.
The time was 1 am so I decided to try soi Pothole. For a change there was a pretty selection outside High Rollers including a particularly pretty girl I invited inside with me. It's done out like a gogo inside with lots of comfy seats around small stage, on which three girls in bikinis danced. My girl was 24, pretty and spoke immaculate English but when I enquired about prices she told me 'I not go with customer', pointing at her sophisticated dress by way of explanation.
I saw a nice girl outside Inferno and bought her a drink. She was tall and skinny with a nice face so I decided to take her. The barfine was 500 but she told me that she'd meet me at the end of her shift in 40 minutes to save me paying it. She asked for 2000 short time but accepted 1500. We swapped Line details and I gave her the name of my hotel.
I paid for the drinks, went back to my hotel, showered and then lay expectantly on my bed waiting for her to come over. What could possibly go wrong?
My phone buzzed at 2. 05 am. 'Can we meet tomorrow?' she said.
I told her I couldn't so after a bit of back and forth on Line she agreed to come to see me. But she told me she didn't know where my hotel is (despite the map and street address I sent her and search engines like google readily available). She asked me to meet her at the Minimart at the top of soi Lengkee, so I threw some clothes on and met her.
She seemed really off with me. By the time she'd showered and we were lying next to each other on the bed, she revealed that she was due to see her sister tonight but now she'd be late, implying it was my fault. I was tempted to point out that I had wanted to barfine her at 1. 20 am and it was her idea to meet after she finished work, but decided to let it go. You can't win an argument with a Thai!
Although I hadn't done anything wrong I smiled and said sorry. We kissed but it was like kissing a corpse. She lay stiff, arms at her side and her lips didn't move. I leaned away and asked 'are you okay?
I have a golden rule. I will never have sex with a girl who doesn't want to and clearly this girl didn't. I told her that if she wanted to leave she could and five minutes later she was out of the door.
What a bad day. No girls despite my best efforts and a night of knockbacks and negativity. These nights happen from time to time, you've just got to brush them off. I went to bed, happy to close my eyes and forgot it ever happened.
At 3. 10 am I was woken by my phone. It was my Vixen girl video-calling me for a chat. The connection was bad and we cut off after 20 seconds but I appreciated her making the effort (or was she checking I was in bed on my own?
I put my phone back down on the bedside cabinet and drifted off to sleep before it buzzed again. It was the angry Inferno girl.
'Can I come back to see you again? I not see sister now' her message read!
For the entire time she spent in my room she had a face like I'd pissed on her grandmother and now just an hour later she was keen for round 2! Despite that I was tempted, but it was nearly 4 am and I was tired.