Not good.
No?
My iPad got nipped?
Awwhh.
I took a girl back to my room and she took it.
Do you have a cell phone at least for wifi?
She took that too.
One of the two Scotts I had met the night before at Cheap Charlie's in Bangkok walked back in wearing the same clothes as yesterday. Part of why I recognized him. I was wearing the same clothes too, but I'm a Fannytrekker. This guy had been proper fucked in Bangkok proper rolled as well. The bar opened at 5, and he looked like he'd already started hours before. His salmon colored shorts and his stripped polo, his tales yesterday of international business around the world, all had a fresh taint around it now. Not calling his tales lies, but he hadn't seemed like a rook job that would get rolled by some smooth talking skirt in one of the worlds most notorious cities. To his credit, he seemed like he could afford it, and he actually blamed his son and mate who were suppose to join him at the bar that night, neither showed, so he was without a wingman (or whatever the British equivalent is).
The other Scot didn't show up, but other familiar faces made their rounds. Cheap Charlie's has a very western feel to it and draws a thick crowd around the various artifacts decorating the bars facade. The Gents son and his mate showed up tonight and I we shared my story about getting hustled in Beijing a few weeks prior. We had a great laugh about it, and I felt the commiseration softened the blow of him losing his property to a lady of the night. He blamed his inebriation.
Awhile later another older American showed up and, fannypack and all, asked us fellow white men, where he could find some trouble. These Austrsilian living Scots were more than happy to direct him to where he could find some beautiful young women. He gad just spent the last two weeks traveling with his daughter and his wife. They had gone home earlier in the day and he was continuing on by himself. His goal was to find a beautiful gal to be his girlfriend for 2 weeks. To love him, travel with him, and allow him to give him everything a "boyfriend" might give. The Scots explained it is very easy to find shirk like that. In jest they added that if he so desired she'd even come back to America and be their maid. Most of the cost of her company would come in the form of gifts, jewelry, dresses, travel, meals, and more or less all expense paid vacation for his escort. He said he might want to fly to Cambodia or the Philippines with her. The response when he said that was it could be a nice litmus test as he circled the streets of prostitutes to ask if they own a passport.
This is what a non prompted interaction is with almost every single male in Bangkok. Especially at night.
