When I travel in other Asian countries it is not uncommon to get "knowing looks" from locals in the street or in shopping centres.
But in Yangon, I didn't get any approaches at all.
Well, apart from the guy I met on my way to the lake. But it wasn't a "knowing look" - it was an act of kindness which I foolishly misinterpreted as an invite to have sex.
I'm now on my way to the airport after a bit of drama regarding the taxi.
There is a dickhead working at the hotel. Every morning when I was sitting outside furiously typing on my iPad, he would constantly come over to practise his English, even though he could see I was busy. It drove me mad!
Today I asked him to call me taxi and told him they must use the meter. I waited and waited but there was no sign of a taxi, so I walked down the driveway onto the street to see what he was doing. Taxis were passing by but he had his back turned to the road!
Finally he snared one. I got in and was told it was 500 baht. When I asked him to turn on the meter, he reversed up the street and dumped me back at the hotel!
"I told you, I want a meter taxi."
"Oh,sorry. I forget!"
He got me another one but as soon as I hopped in, it was 500 baht. I was now running 20 minutes late so I just gave in.
Before heading off to the airport I decided to try one of those foot massages. I'd had my eye on a couple of cuties at the massage places outside the hotel. But today there weren't any guys outside, just a couple of girls. So I wandered up to Art Massage where I found a very nice -looking guy. I grabbed him straight away.
It was my first real massages by a professional and it was wonderful! I tried to engage him in conversation in Thai - what's your name, where are you from, can I chuc...." Oops! But he had heard it all before and wasn't interested I think he may have wanted to just concentrate on the job. He did, however,m tell me he was from Issan. Instant boner!
He didn't go above the knees - no surprise there - but it was incredibly sensual. I'll definitely be having more of these massages next time I'm in town. Some of the guys at the other places give me a bit of a wink as they approach me, so there's the possibility I could have an even more sensual massage upstairs.
Last night after dinner I went to Moonlight again for the 10:30 show. I paid my 400 baht and walked in, only to see 5 boys on stage and 7 customers. Obviously, there would be no chuck-wow finale in the show tonight. Oh, well....
Here's a brief description of what you can expect in the show:
1. two uncoordinated boys "dancing"
2. 4 guys parading on stage displaying their beautifully toned bodies
3. 3 guys dancing with a glimpse of one hard cock
4. a stripper who bared nothing
5. quite a good blow job act
6. 5 guys in towels, removing them to show their large members
7. another stripper, this time with cock. Very impressive.
8. 9 gogo boys "dancing." Terrible, but at least they were having fun
9. same 4 body beautiful guys parading on stage
10. boring shower show
And here's dinner last night!
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You mean they recognised you as the geronto porn star from Down Under?Originally Posted by a447
If it's a consolation for you: I don't get "knowing looks" anywhere.
After studying Thai language, I can do almost everything better than the vast majority of the population, so I try to avoid all unneccessary involvement of locals. Your report confirms my practice.
mr giggles (April 30th, 2018)
Riiiiight, I guess that's why you've lived there for years and years in your little shoebox so that you can feel good about yourself instead of trying to cut it among your contemporaries in Europe.
What is that saying - a one-eyed man in the land of the blind is queen?
mr giggles (April 30th, 2018)
I go along with that 100%, and I don't speak a lot of Thai...!
christianpfc (April 28th, 2018)
Re taxis and the meter, a new experience twice this trip is for the taxi driver to nod assent to the destination, then to say '100 baht' after I got in. I refused. Once he stopped and I got out; once he turned on the meter.
Given the huge traffic jam on the freeway - it took close to 2 hours to get to Suwanaphumi - I now think that 500 baht is acceptable.
The attitude of the drivers is not.
The "dickhead" is not the bellboy but whoever was dumb enough to pay the set fare; these boys often have an arrangement with the taxi drivers who tend to frequent the same hotels each day - 400Bt to the driver and 100Bt to the boy, to be collected later. All it takes is a quick copy-and-paste Line or SMS message from the bellboy to summon one of the drivers they already have an arrangement with and who's usually parked somewhere nearby. That's why "taxis were passing by but he had his back turned to the road!" - he wasn't interested in the ones driving by. I'm sorry to say that the joke, yet again, is on you.
Blacktouch (April 28th, 2018)
It's all about making money. The bellboy, taxi and in some cases the reception desk. They are all at it.
Whenever I stay at Mosaik in Pattaya, I always pre book the taxi via them. It cost a little more, but they get a cut from the fare. A taxi driver once told me.
Nothing is free in Thailand.
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