I suspect my vat, hotel taxes and taxes on beer get to something in the same ballpark as Arsenal's 30,000.
Although, I suspect the casual service workers who sometimes visit my room might not be vat registered.
I suspect my vat, hotel taxes and taxes on beer get to something in the same ballpark as Arsenal's 30,000.
Although, I suspect the casual service workers who sometimes visit my room might not be vat registered.
I’m glad you brought that up goji, because it reminds me of what turned out to be a rather unfathomable incident in my Bangkok apartment back in 2019 when my short-time visitor for the evening was about to leave. I asked him, casually mind you, not in the least bit confrontational, if he would mind providing me with a VAT receipt so that I could make a VAT refund claim. I showed him a form similar to the one below as evidence in support of my request:
VAT.jpg
Well, goodness me, up until then he had been very pleasant and er . . . what can I say, ah yes . . . very obliging. But in the blink of an eye he flew into a rage, ripped my form into shreds and, I’m guessing, said a few very unpleasant things in Thai. Then stormed off in what can only be described as a fury. Needless to say I never off’d him again. And to this day I really don’t understand why he became so unpleasant, do you?
Remember: Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
Ruthrieston (January 13th, 2022)
Most boys think of themselves as bar boys, working boys, or some such similar polite phraseology. I don’t ever recall seeing a profile calling themselves an escort.
They do not regard themselves as “money boys “, even though they will “perform” for a tip. I agree that you sometimes see profiles which says “MB”, but it Is quite rare.
Being called a “money boy” to his face is considered a serious insult. Ask me how I know!
Perhaps this is what he thought you were saying?
I doubt a Thai boy would understand your joke, let alone the form you produced!
Remember: Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
Ha I don't know which was funnier there, JB's original post or Gerefan2 thinking it was a serious interaction :-) Ha the very idea of Jelly standing at the door of his hotel seeing out his boy de jour while asking for a VAT invoice for services rendered as the boy left - classic :-)
mr giggles (January 13th, 2022)
I once encountered a young man working at Boys Bangkok in its final incarnation who described himself as a “sex worker”. His previous employer had been some UN do-gooder agency whose major influence on the young man’s life was the information that there’s more money in sex work than office work. He’s not the only pleasant encounter a UN agency has provided although the first one was not a paid meeting. I met him in that haunt of daytime pick ups in the 80s and early 90s, Dairy Queen in the Robinsons building on the corner of Silom & Rama 4 roads