It’s a common theme when you talk to Thai bar girls.
“No like Thai man… him butterfly too mut. Me like farang; jai dee mak mak.”
When you first arrive in Thailand — okay, when I first arrived in Thailand — I believed it. It sounded so sincere coming from that innocent mouth with those full, innocent lips and those shiny innocent eyes.
I also believed a lot of other things. I believed that they had only been working in the bar for a few weeks, that they wanted to stop working in the bar and would if they just had the chance, and that she had only gone to dinner with the guy who paid her barfine earlier tonight.
I guess I believed these simple lies because it seemed that there was no reason for her to lie to me. After all, I knew she was a hooker, she knew she was a hooker… why lie?
