I have just come back from a short break in Thailand, eight days of bliss. However something is puzzling me.
Being a man and as such also a creature of habit I always stay at the same hotel. The staff treat me like family and I them. I know them all very well
but this time with one particular room-service guy, a tall beautiful Thai from the islands I was left feeling a bit puzzled.
I gather he has a crush on me but I am not sure, I have to admit to having feelings for him. This has been building up over the years, though to be honest I feel the same about all the room-service boys, and it would be fair to say I love all of them. They are all extremely good looking charming and beautifully groomed, so flirting is the norm. However it is always tongue in cheek as I would never compromise any one of them and perhaps risk their job and or their dignity, they are just too loving and feel more like brothers.
This particular guy however confuses me. He's a bit shy but loves to chat, his mouth gets a bit dry and he gets his tongue in a twist. I call him handsome in Thai as a nick, this is a gross understatement, he could easily consider the runway as a career.
What I found particularly startling, and something I have never seen him do before was turn white, white as a sheet. Like when someone get angry only in reverse. Instead of red his whole face drained of colour. What could this mean? It was only for a few seconds at a time but each time I thought he was going to faint, even his little ears turned ashen though he did keep smiling bravely.
He never did this before and we get on very well, though because he's a bit shy he only recently started calling me by my first name. It just came out once in a whisper, almost like he was practising it to himself while he set out my lunch. It made me smile, but then he instantly turned white as an angry cuttlefish.
However when I left he got all teary eyes and as tongue tie as ever, so risking all principle I lent across and kissed his brow, like you would a little child. His whole face instantly broke out into a radiant glow and he clasped my hand like he didn't want to let go. When he left the room he went backwards bumping into the porcelain umbrella stand his shiny wide eyes glued to mine his smile fixed in delight. What could be going on?