Day 2 – part 3So off the three of us went, and baht-bused it back to my hotel, so I could get a shower and changed.
Kate took it into her head to call Peter, “Hello Peter…….. I in loom with your friend Paul”…….. “Aye with
Sony also” ……… I quickly shouted, making sure he knew I wasn’t alone with her, but Peter thought I said Tony. He sounded a bit down and I couldn’t blame him, after she done that, and when she put the phone down, I said, “What the fuck did you do that for?........ you know he is sitting alone in that sand pit …….. now he will be thinking too much” ……………. “I certainly hope so……… I hope he think about me too much”. Then I realized after all that talk about Peter that afternoon, she had him on her mind, and wanted to make sure he had her on his.
I had to get a bit more cash out of the box, as I spent a wee bit too much that afternoon. So I took another 100 euros out, knowing well I was taking them out to dinner at the Green Bottle, and I knew as soon as I walk through the door it would be ‘Welcome Mr. Paul through the mic, and I would have to buy the band a drink on top of the dinner, which I normally do. Told the girls we would be walking the whole way as I had a circuit planed out with a few stops on the way.
Outside the hotel both exchange places were closed, walked up the street and peeped in to Pookswan, to see if Pancake was there but there was no sign of her, but as Martin told me earlier, there was 90% new staff there now. So I had a better idea to change the money, as I stayed in the Sawadee Siam across the road, I’ll change it at reception, but it was too late also, the only place now was up walking street, but I’m sure as hell not going up there just to change money. Wile talking to reception, the bell hop came over thinking I was a guest. “What seems to be the problem sir” ……. “I want to change some money…… but I don’t want to go to walking street…….. as I am going in the opposite direction” ……… “I’ll do that for you sir”………… “OK! …… change that, and I will be waiting for you outside at the VW cocktail bar”.
So off he went on his bike, and I took the two girls for a cocktail at the VW bar, wile we watched the talent in the Pookswan, and the bar next to it. The bell hop came back and I tipped him for doing me the favor, finished off the cocktails and headed through LK Plaza, and stopped at the New Orn bar for one, then headed to the Green Bottle, and sure enough, “Welcome Mr. Paul”. And the three of us got stuck in to dinner.
Kate got stuck into a big steak, which she says was the best she ever tasted (hint hint Peter),
Sony had Thai and I had spicy salad with salty eggs, which is never on the menu. Got the band a drink after they played me some of my favorite Thai songs, paid the bill and then took a stroll down the second road and stoped at the Malibu to watch the show and a couple of cocktails, which in my opinion is the best cocktail in town, and not expensive.
There was no loose LB’s there, but a bloke sitting with his Thai wife jaw dropped, “
Kate”…… Well later the Thai wife called
Kate over just as the couple were leaving, and they had a good old chin wag, and later
Kate told me there was a bit of trouble at Pooks a week ago, when the bloke was always hounding
Kate, when his wife walked in on them, and had a right old shouting match, and in the Malibu the Thai wife just wanted to apologize for blaming
Kate.
After that was sorted out, we took a stroll down to Soi 7 to finish off the night at Johns bar, as I had some gifts for the owner and cashier of the Irish bar next to him, and some movies and TV shows, and tea bags for John. But passing
Noy’s bar which was across the road, and his wife spotted me and called me over, told the two girls to wait, raun across the road only to be informed the
Noy, a good friend for 30 years, had died the week before. That kind of knocked the wind out of me, and I told her I would be back another night, to have a chat with her.
So off we three continued to Soi 7, first having a drink at the Irish bar, and handing them their presents, then to John and Rob next door, where the two girls played pool with each other, with the strict instructions to drink what ever they liked, when ever they liked, wile I had a good old chin wag with the lads. Shortly after the whole side of the bar filled up with LB’s and their boyfriends, and was really great to see. Ozzieguy and Boa, and Da and her boyfriend (sorry mate I forgot your handle), and that little 20 year old boy, who seemed to be right into it, with his tongue down a very tasty blonde’s throat, among others. So I had a chat with them, all great guy’s.
Ozzie seemed to be arguing with Boa, but sure that man would argue with his own shadow if you let him. I went back to the other side to John and Rob, later followed by Ozzie, which came across as a strong character, that never gives a fuck, and a man after my own heart, and the man was a laugh a minute. But at that time I didn’t realize it was Boa he was with. I drank twice as much as the night before, but was twice as sober, so I must have acclimatized to the beer now.
Kate was a bit pissed and a bit tired, so I slipped her a little cash, and sent her home. Then got
Sony to sit right in the middle of us, so she could join in the crack. (Some guys leave their girlfriend sitting at one side of them bored stiff, wile chatting to a mate on the other side of him.) Now there was a wee harden criminal in the company and a good mate of mine, and it wasn’t long till
Sony joined in by pointing to him and laughing, so I said to her, “What are you laughing about
Sony?” ………… “Him! …….. He look like that cartoon” ……….. “What cartoon?” …………… “Popeye!”……. Well that started us all off in fits of laughter, and my wee criminal mate up his head down on the bar and said, “Do you know….. nobody has ever got big enough balls to say that to me”. Wile he pissed himself laughing, and I said, “Aye! And from what I hear, its not only a big pair of balls she’s got”. Needless to say the crack was 90, and around 4am,
Sony and I headed back to the loom, and had a fantastic session.
The next morning we were woke up with a call that
Kate was in the reception. Unknown to me the two of them were impressed with the hotel and especially the swimming pool. And arranged together they would have a swim the next morning,
Kate brought
Sony her bikini as they both shared the same room. And
Kate came to the loom and finished off a family bar of chocolate from the fridge, that she had started the night before, wile
Sony slipped into her bikini, and we all headed to the pool.