Crazy Bangkok Part 3

So off we went. At the night market we saw MILLIONS of stalls selling anything from baby powder to dildo’s (literally). Apparently pornography is illegal but sex toys are not – WTH?  With all of the hustling and bustling going on we realized our one Thai phrase (Torai krap – How much?) is going to be useless to try and “bargain”. 

As we walked Brian said while we are in Bangkok we have to go watch a ‘’Ping Pong Show”. I had no idea what a Ping Pong show is – so I just gave him a confused look. He started laughing and told me I will know before we leave Bangkok what a Ping Pong show is. His words were not even cold yet when the first guy comes to us: ‘’Want to go watch Ping Pong Show?’’. At first we just laughed and refused politely – Mai Krap.  After guy number 100 000 we just got irritated. And after guy number 1 000 000 we just decided to go see what this whole thing is about. MISTAAAKE!!

Initially he told us that one beer costs 50 baht (R12.50) – bargain. So we sat next to the counter and the VERY friendly bar-lady took our order. The following is an accurate description of the sequence of events:

·         Take out cigarette,

·         Lighter appear out of no-where on a tiny arm attached to a VERY big smile,

·         You smile politely and use the lighter,

·         KABOOM thousands of petite bodies with ginormous smiles and very long very false eyelashes appear out of nowhere,

·         We were swamped by what seemed to be Thai gals – apparently one never knows the gender until it is too late,

·         Two beers appear,

·         Steven and I look for each other through the crowd of over-friendly-actually-annoying-gals,

·         CHOKDI KRAP! (Cheers)

·         One sip

·         Bill appears out of nowhere (it is like being at a magic show)

·         2400 baht… Now this is not right

·         Huuuge argument – no we did not buy drinks for the whole club, no we are not buying “the nice ladies” a drink, no they are not going to “take care of us”

·         Give the lady all your cash – thank goodness we left the bulk of our cash at the hotel so we paid 600 baht

·         Down the (then) fowl tasting beer

·         Run out of the club

·         Shocked silence

·         LOUD laughter.

·         “DUDE! What just happened?!”

So we decided it is saver if we go buy some alcohol at the 7/11 and just head back to the hotel. After ending the day of with a few drinks at the roof-top swimming pool we went to bed for a goodnight’s rest - hello crazy Thailand – our home for the unforeseeable future.

“Please turn of the heater!!!!” You wake up and expect to see the familiar walls of your room. Ready to crap someone out for turning the heater on to high – and then you realize: “No it is not your room, yes you did drink a bit more than what your body was designed to handle, and no it is not the heater – it is THAILAND.” Amazing when reality kicks in and reality is better than your dreams – thank You God for giving us this opportunity.

Shower, breakfast, explore. We met some South Africans the previous night – they were also going to join us for the TESOL course. This time “explore” included us accompanying them to the MASSIVE IT mall( No it was not the enjoyable - I tea, you coffee…)