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Tuesday night I finished work around 7:30 p.m. and headed to the Sukhumvit area to visit a friend. Around ten o’clock I started for home, but since I was near Soi Cowboy I popped into Rawhide for a quick beer.

When it comes to sheer volumes of beautiful, naked female flesh, no bar in Bangkok beats Rawhide. There are a lot of new faces in the bar at the moment, and overall it’s a good crew. I polished off two bottles of Heineken and watched about 20 naked beauties do their thing on the stage. I left at the end of a high-energy four-girl show that was classic Rawhide.

I never get tired of this place.

I hopped the train for home.

Longtime readers of the Werewolf’s Lair blog will know that I regularly find new and creative ways to lose mobile phones, and last night may go down as the ‘flukiest’ or most unusual ever.

It’s the wet season in Bangkok now. Nearly every day for the past three weeks we’ve had heavy downpours in the late afternoon that last for about an hour before tailing off to intermittent showers and drizzle for the rest of the night.

I was walking home in the light drizzle carrying my briefcase when a friend called me on my mobile phone. We had a short conversation, then said good bye. As I used my thumb to hit the red button and end the call, the phone, which was slightly wet, slipped from my hand.

I wanted to prevent it from crashing hard to the pavement, so I put my right foot out to try to slow down the fall. The phone hit my foot and ricocheted forward. It’s hard to describe how the water drainage is designed in Bangkok side-sois, but basically there is a heavy concrete lid, indented to create a channel for water, with a couple of holes in the lid – each about 2 inches across.

My phone, bouncing off my foot, didn’t land on the concrete. Rather it went directly into this small hole.  With about a centimeter to spare on each side, the phone went in — nothing but net!  It was a fluke… a one in ten-thousand chance. The phone itself is nearly as big as the hole, and it had to hit it exactly right to fall in. But fall it did.

I saw the light of the phone’s screen glow briefly in the drain before going dark.

I was only ten meters from my apartment building, so I asked the security guard to help me. We got a couple of metal bars and tried to lift the heavy concrete cover, but we didn’t quite manage it.  I cut my hands up pretty good in the process.

I suspect we would have continued trying, but we were interrupted.

The phone call I’d received just prior to punting my phone into the golf-ball sized hole was from a bar girl I had given money to in the morning. She had called to say she was in a taxi and on her way, and while the security guards and I were busily trying to pry up the concrete lid she arrived.

We had used the flashlight to determine that the phone was laying in about three inches of water. It had been there for about ten minutes already, so after considering the situation for a moment, we decided to abandon our efforts, and I took the girl up to my room.

That was around 11:30 p.m. last night.  When I came downstairs to go to work this morning the guard handed me the dry SIM card which he had removed from my phone, as well as my ruined Nokia. Apparently he had managed to get some help with the heavy cement lid and had recovered the phone overnight.  I tested the SIM card and it is undamaged . The problem is that I have to work until 8 p.m. today, and I have no time to go buy a new phone or replace my SIM card, so unless I can do it at lunchtime I won’t be able to take care of it until tomorrow.

What a pain! I’m getting used to it, though. I lose about four mobile phones every year.

Meanwhile, back to the girl.

As I said, I had loaned her 2,000 baht in the morning, and she came to my room last night to pay me back.

She wasn’t paying me back in cash, however… she was offering value in trade.

We had sex.

This girl is unusually tall for a Thai girl. She told me before that she is 170 cm tall, or about 5’6”, but I’m sure she’s much taller. I stand about 6’2” (187 cm) and she is not much shorter than me. I’d guess about 5’10”.  She’s very slender and has a pretty face; all in all a very attractive package.

Talking last night she said that she had to send the morning SMS to ask me for the money because she’s had very few customers recently…in fact she claimed to have had only two customers in three weeks.

She blamed two factors: the current problems between the government and the PAD along with the heavy rains that have been falling recently.

She works at one of the overnight outdoor bars that spring up on the corner of Asok and Sukhumvit every night around midnight. The rain especially hurts the business at these late night outdoor venues.

With few customers and little income, she had been putting off paying her rent until her roommate (who had covered the full amount at the beginning of the month) started to threaten her. It’s especially difficult for this girl because she lives very far away from Sukhumvit, staying near South Sathorn Road. She claimed to spend nearly 200 baht a day traveling to work and back, using a combination of sky train and taxi.

She understands a little English, and can chat in basic pidgin, saying things like “Your friend me talk yesterday about mobile me.” If you’ve lived here a while and talked to enough bar girls, you can understand it, but it’s not ideal.

As a result, she tends to just chatter away in Thai at me. It’s good listening practice for me because she doesn’t slow down a bit, just keeps plowing ahead and I have to try to maintain my half of the conversation.

Between bouts of sex last night she chatted almost non-stop. I ranged between stretches of complete understanding and periods of the absolute opposite. I replied in Thai most of the time, switching to English only occasionally when I got frustrated or couldn’t construct a complicated sentence.

Without my mobile phone, I had to rely on her to wake me up this morning at 6 a.m. (I don’t have an alarm clock).  She woke me up, but misunderstood and woke me up at 5:45 instead of 6:15, so I didn’t get much sleep.

This is actually the second time I’ve had to rely on her to wake me up for work in the morning. I prefer to have girls stay overnight when I don’t have to work early the next day but somehow I’ve gone three-for-three with this girl. Every time I’ve had her over my house for sex I’ve had an early start the next morning.

The sex was good anyway. After a ‘warmup’ fuck we did the second session in a rowdy cowgirl position, with her long thin legs straddling my abundant frame. She’s one of the only girls in Thailand I know who’s tall enough to actually perform this position effectively. Most Thai girls can’t straddle my large body and manage to move much.

The third session featured a long period of 69 that eventually ended up in an odd position with her lovely long legs crossed under my chin as I wailed away at her.

Very enjoyable indeed, and it made me forget about losing the damned phone.

She is a happy girl who never stops smiling and loves to chat.  She gladly accepts as much sex as I am able to dish out, and is plenty of fun in the sack.

But my favorite go go dancer is still also my favorite fuck-buddy.  She called me this afternoon, thinking I would be free for dinner.  She is off work tonight and invited me out for dinner.  She sounded very disappointed when I told her I was working an hour outside of Bangokok and wouldn’t be home until nine o’clock or later.

I came home to find stained sheets, hair all over the floor, three wet towels, two dirty drink glasses on the table, etc.  In other words, lots of evidence that I’d been entertaining a girl last night.  I tidied the room, then called my favorite go go dancer.  She was out and about with a friend, but said that she’d come over later.

I’m looking forward to it.