Gullivers Again!

Yesterday wasn’t as good as my first time, I have to say. I went with a farang but he only gave me 2,000 baht and my taxi home cost me 100 baht and I bought four drinks myself so really I didn’t make a profit of more than 1,500 baht. Really, that is a lot of money though. In my real job I get paid between 12,000 and 15,000 baht a month which is a bit more than 500 baht a day so I think I should not be too greedy.

The problem was that on Saturday night there were a lot of girls at Gullivers. I mean a lot. More than a hundred I think. When Anne and I got there every single table was occupied except for a few tables outside and Anne said that it wasn’t a good idea to sit outside because it was hot and because farangs looking for girls go inside. We went to stand by the pool tables at the far end of the bar and a guy from England called Dave asked us if we wanted to play pool so we did. Dave was young, about twenty-two, and his friend Neil was twenty-one. They were from Liverpool and spoke with funny accents that were a bit cute but a bit hard to understand. They said they were on holiday and were going to Pattaya and had only been in Bangkok for two nights. We played pool for about an hour and they bought us two drinks and then they asked if we wanted to go to a disco or something. Anne asked them how much they would pay us and they laughed and said they wouldn’t pay for us but we could go if we wanted. I really wanted to go because they were cute and quite good-looking but Anne said no, we were there to work and not to have fun so we said goodbye and then we found a table to sit at.

We had to buy our own drinks then of course so we both had Cokes and started looking around for farangs. That was the problem. There were a lot of girls and not a lot of farangs and some of the girls were quite pushy, touching men as they walked past and asking them to sit down. I couldn’t do that because really I am a bit shy. After half an hour a man sat down at our table and spoke to use in Thai. He said his name was Richard and he lived in Thailand he wanted us both to go with him and he would pay us 500 baht each. Anne said it would cost him 3,000 baht each and he laughed and said that he wasn’t stupid and he went away. Really though I think he was stupid. But about ten minutes later I saw him leaving with two girls and he was smiling so I think they must have agreed to go with him for 500 baht. They were from Isarn, I think, and they were not very pretty.

We sat there for ages, talking and smiling at farangs, but by midnight Anne was getting worried because Gullivers closes at one o’clock in the morning. Then two American men walked by. They were quite old, more than fifty, one was bald and the other had white hair. They both had big beer bellys. I don’t know why farangs like to have beer bellys but a lot of the farangs in Gullivers do. The bald one was called Eric and he liked me and the white-haired one was Gerry and he liked Anne. They bought us drinks and talked for a while and then they asked how much for us to go with him. Anne said 3,000 baht but they said that was too expensive and that the night before they had paid 2,000 baht so Anne said okay, 2,000 baht was enough. They were staying at the Marriott Hotel near Soi 2 so we walked with them because it was not too far. Eric’s room was on the ninth floor and Gerry was on the tenth floor so Anne said that we should spend one hour with the farangs and meet down in the lobby.

The sex with Eric was really bad. Terrible. Even with my eyes closed it was bad. He couldn’t stay hard and he blamed me and said that I was a starfish and I didn’t understand what he meant. I asked him what a starfish was but he just laughed. I didn’t know if he meant I was a fish from the stars or if I was like a fish movie star. My English is really quite good because I went to an international school in Bangkok but sometimes there are words that I do not understand. He wouldn’t explain and just laughed and said I should go. Really it was his fault. He is the man and I let him do whatever he wanted so if he can’t do it then it’s his fault. I was back downstairs in twenty minutes with my 2,000 baht and Anne was there fifteen minutes later. She said the sex with Gerry had been bad, too. But really it doesn’t matter if the sex is good or the sex is bad, we still got our money and that is all that matters. But really I wanted to get more than 2,000 baht. In the taxi on the way home I asked Anne what a starfish was and she laughed and laughed until there were tears in her eyes. She said a starfish was a sea creature that had five legs and looked like a star, with its five legs spread out. Then she laughed again and wiped her tears. She said that Eric had meant that I had been lying on the bed like a starfish with my arms and legs out. Then I started laughing because he was right, that was exactly what I did. I just lay there and let him do it and I didn’t touch him or anything. She said that in future I should change my name. I shouldn’t be Wan any more because I am not sweet, I should be Daao which means star. I said no, I wanted to be Wan but next time I would try not to be a starfish.