It is definitely off season for Thailand and that is not good for the bar industry. The bar girls are smart and often take extended vacations back in their village which leaves the bars populated with what I call the B-Team. The B-team is made up with rookies, and not so svelte ladies (chubby). The B-team is also smaller in numbers but that is because there are a lot fewer customers out there.
Arthur, my American buddy headed out at noon yesterday and had fun checking out the differences. The girls are hungry due to the lack of customers which meant that there was a lot of nuisance approaches and way too fast, 'What your name?' and 'You buy me drink?' requests. The good news is that, being new to the bar, the girls could not tell Arthur and I (lifers) from the regular run of the mill punters so we had fun playing along.
After awhile we got bored with Hillary 4 and headed across the Nana parking lot to play some pool at Strikers. We had quite a bit of fun there as Strikers had their regular 'pool girls' on staff and I managed to get beat 2 out of 3 games despite playing okay.
After an hour at Strikers we decided to head over to the Bier Garden to see how it was doing in the off season and it was not very busy. Apparently it will be closing down soon as the land owner wants to build another hotel or condo.
After a quick beer, we headed over to Country Road for a jug of Singha and watch the girls arriving for work on Soi Cowboy. The girls start arriving at about 5:30 for their 7 pm start. They like to eat first and then layer on the makeup depending on how old they are. After we consumed the pitcher we started bar hopping along Cowboy and were somewhat dismayed at the B-teams at Cowboy. The Dollhouse had 3 girls on stage where it would normally have 15-20 girls.
Yesterday, Thavorn, Jaidan, and her 2 older children headed off for a couple weeks in the village which means I am a bachelor for the next 2 days. Arthur won the lottery as his wife took a 1 year year work contract in the US and he will be a bachelor for a whole year. I tend to suspect he will be a little bit lonely in about 2 weeks. I spent yesterday morning cleaning the apartment and now I enjoy walking around without food and other things sticking to my feet.
Jaidan seems to enjoy the village and was happy to see that momma has a cat. He also likes playing with his gf Icy and is teacher her Lego building. Apparently it is just as hot in the village as Bangkok, which has been very hot, in the high 30's lately. It is better to hide out inside during the day and head out about 6 pm when it starts to cool down a bit.
TTYL
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