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Ill be there this weekend
If you guys want to get together let me know.
Last "old days".
well, i guess i'll finish this up with what i remember from the old days. please forgive me if this is a bit disjointed as i am putting together what i remember.
as i had said before, i was in the usaf and stationed at the don muang airport. i lived very close to the soldiers monument in a very small apartment with a buddy. on the small amount of $$ we made in the military, sharing was the only way you could afford to have an apartment. now, if you wanted to, you could live in the military hotel, the trocadero, in bkk. but, wanting more freedom and play time, the apartment worked!
flew into bkk on a chartered jet with an exciting stop in vietnam, (think power dive to the runway, and the military people getting off in vietnam almost being thrown off the plane!) , wasn't on the ground in vietnam more than was absolutely necessary.
billeted (military word) , in the hotel until i hooked up with ken and we found an apartment we could afford. rented it from a young woman who worked at the airbase at the airport. she ended up being a good friend and we had a lot of good times with her-never any fxxdking but alot of just fun. around the corner from the hotel a young women ran a teak store-you know, bowls, carvings, etc. used to spend time there just talking with her as she had a great personality. there was antique shop close by that had stacks of real tiger skins along with ivory carvings, etc. has to be all gone now!
for the first month or two in bkk, and my not knowing very much (young and dumb) , did some sightseeing, temple visiting, and general running around. after getting into the apartment, things began to improve and my horizon's broadened. as my roommate and i usually worked different shifts, we would usually only overlap on days off and those were our "run them" days. i can remember several times when i would get in, intending to get some sleep because of the shift i was on, and ken would show up with a birthday present, i had several quite nice birthday presents this way! what can you say when a cute young thai girl wants to share your bed and all you have to do is lift the cover for her climb in, naked and after her shower, of course! how many of you can say that you didn't even have to get out of bed to get fresh pussy?
worked with the "tech reps" on the base and went out drinking (learned to drink chivas with them) , but didn't have the funds they had so couldn't hang with them too much. i remember three of them sharing a house and it was running women and booze 24/7! another one of the reps had an apartment in the "kings house", top floor, like a penthouse, huge, two story windows overlooking bkk. however, he didn't like to take home wg's as he couldn't get rid of them and many times would have to have them physically removed. a couple of the reps went every week to the "gold" shops. as i remember, they were all red inside with gold rings, chains, etc, all inside. they would buy, each week, links to the chains they wore on their neck. you could buy a 5 baht link or 50 baht link and up or down from there. the reps made quite good $$$ and remembering the size of gold chain they had and the number of links (oh, you could also trade in a long small link chain for a short, larger link chain so you keep buying longer and bigger gold) , i wonder what some of those chains would be worth today?
aside: i had a couple of "friends" that got into the drug scene fairly heavily, as anything you might want was very easily available. i never ventured down that path as in my wanderings up and down alleys i probably shouldn't have been in, i saw thai's (or something) smoking from rusty cans with rubber hose attached and rats chewing on their bloody feet-ewuee! if that doesn't put you off your feed, nothing will!
somewhat bored with drinking and fxxking almost every night, ken and i heard of this place where you could water ski, (see previous post). started to do some water skiing and found that the place was frequented by many upper class thai's. after a period of time we became accepted as part of their circle. this was how we (ken and i) , would go to pattaya to the chairman of the senates homes, and in his mercedes, dinners at very upscale thai homes, political dinners, etc, etc. during this time i was involved in a boating accident the killed the son of the water ski establishment. as we were directly involved and present when he was killed (accident). we were in a small boat owned by another thai water ski friend, and on the way to one of his restaurants to pick up some especially made dishes to bring back to jeanie's. passing under a bridge over one of the klongs, a pipe had broken loose and was hanging down. as we moving at a high rate of speed, you can imagine the results when it hit him in the head. enough on that episode, but we then had to be involved in the funeral, wake, etc, that went on for several days.
not to belabor any points, but the "good" girl i dated while there had a bullet wound in her lower abdomen and her brother was paralyzed from the waist down from bullet wounds. i asked, but never got it explained as to how it happened. i do remember that life seemed very cheap and supposedly if you wanted someone taken care of, the starting price was 5 us dollars.
when out and about, i either walked or took a taxi. normally there would be several taxi's lined up at key locations. just shout out where you want to go and how much you were willing to pay and after a bit of negotiation, off you would go. also i remember that you held your fare in your hand, and if he had an accident you were supposed to throw your money on the seat and take off running, but don't go in same direction as the taxi driver, because he is running also. supposedly (and i never found out if it was true) , because you had paid the driver to bring you there, you were responsible for the accident. but not paying for the taxi was an even bigger no no.
food in bkk. i don't remember eating much thai food that i can remember the names of, but always the soups were great and cheap. something stir fried with peanuts and served on the streets in a banana leaf was great-again very cheap. sweet iced coffee on the streets, served in a plastic bag with a straw, i have never been able to duplicate it. used to get a dish of something we called cowpod, basically fried rice with mystery meat and an egg on top, cheap and good. on the side of the road to pattaya, used to stop and pick up a length of bamboo that was hung over an fire (charcoal?) and inside was a mixture of sticky rice, coconut milk, and, but i remember it being very good! in those days in bkk, and probably still, you could get any type of ethnic variety food you might want. for a "real" sub, just go to the ""trolley" (owned by some person form san francisco) and was supposed to look like a sf trolley car, had a place for wonderful burgers, was told they were water buffalo burgers, but hell, they tasted great! the best french onion soup i have ever had was in bkk, the cheese covered toast on top never got soggy and was chrisp until the end. there were several places for steaks (don't really know what the meat was) , good italian and many many others. having eaten in several of the best restaurants in the world since then, i can say that the food in bkk was among the best i have ever had (of course being drunk and hungry may have clouded my judgements a bit). i remember restaurants i never went in, all white tile where the leftover food seemed to thrown on the floor, and if you needed to spit, just do it on the floor. when they cleaned the place, they had a large steam hose and hosed whole place down top to bottom and the garbage ended up in the street. i remember the toasted squid the thai's used to snack on! i took public transportation occasionally when i was really broke, and the smell of those squid would knock you down! whew!
girls in bkk. this will be the shortest piece of this narrative as every thai mongers knows the girls. they were there by the hundreds, never paid for pussy, there was just too much of it going around not used! much of the time they just wanted a clean bed, a good nights sleep, and a good shower. for that you were seen to be a king, and you had all the pussy a man could want. as they say, most of them look the same upside down! i don't remember ever getting a bj, but do remember some very good sex.
that's all!
Food in Bangkok is excellent and very reasonably priced
[QUOTE=Phordphan;1418773]You're so correct about the international food quality in BKK. It's often every bit as good as what you can find in the "originating" country. Unfortunately, with inflation and the weakness of the dollar, many of these places are just as expensive as the home country, too.[/QUOTE]In December I had dinner at Zuma in Bangkok. In January I had dinner at Zuma in Miami. Dinner for two at Zuma in Bangkok cost one third as much as a comparable dinner at Zuma in Miami. I had several other dinning experiences in Bangkok that were less than half as expensive as a comparable dinner in a fine restaurant in a major city in the United States.
