Friday night is traditionally patrol night. My old friend wanted to do the rounds, so we started on Soi Buakhao, dropping into one of the popular open-air corner bars. Almost every table was occupied by pensioners—some solo, some with company. We grabbed seats next to a 70-year-old Canadian tourist on vacation. Bored out of his mind, he immediately saw us as a captive audience and launched into a grand, uninvited lecture about life. My phone rang, and I stepped away for a 10-minute business call. When I returned, my friend was dying inside while the lecture continued uninterrupted. We paid the bill. While waiting for our change, my friend elbowed me and pointed at the Canadian’s phone on the table. It was open to Facebook, the font scaled up to 300% for failing eyesight, and he was carefully reading Pattaya Unfiltered.
Next stop: a cocktail car in Tree Town. It was dead empty. Then, my phone rang again. An acquaintance was working his very first night as a bar manager. We walked into his venue to find exactly three customers. The new manager had desperately called everyone in his contacts just to show his boss that he was a rainmaker who could bring in traffic. He proudly pulled me aside to offer a “partnership” for bringing girls in. I politely declined—his terms were completely detached from market reality. On the way out, I casually asked him how much the barfine was. He froze, realizing he didn’t actually know, ran to ask the boss, and sprinted back with the answer.
2,500 THB. On Buakhao. In the middle of low season. The unit economics of absolute delusion.
We moved to Walking Street. Inside an Agogo, two girls on stage started aggressively pointing at us, signaling that they remembered us. Fine, the tactic worked, we bought the lady drinks. When they sat down, it finally clicked: they weren’t veteran stage dancers, they were just girls we drank with at a local Ran Lao (Thai pub) last week. The ecosystem in this city is entirely too small.
Speaking of Ran Lao, we headed to one on South Pattaya Road. This is where the real industry hangs out after hours. To our right: a table of four girls from Soi 6. To our left: four girls from a nearby KTV. Behind us, we noticed a Korean tourist sitting completely alone, looking incredibly out of place. We invited him over. He spoke zero English and zero Thai. It didn’t matter. Whiskey is a highly efficient universal translator.
By 2:00 AM, we were sitting in a Tomboy host bar with our new Korean asset. Language barriers had completely ceased to exist.
By 4:30 AM, we were eating Moo Krata at BeKaDin near Soi 6.
By 6:00 AM, the Korean and I were holding the line at Myth on Walking Street.
At 8:00 AM, my responsible admin persona finally kicked in. I rushed home, remembering I hadn’t published the Saturday posts. I hit send, collapsed, and woke up around 18:00.
I opened my phone to conduct the standard morning-after audit, and absolute horror set in. Who forged these photos? That cannot be me. Who is this girl kissing my cheek? Why are there ten selfies of the waitress I liked in my camera roll? Who are these five new LINE contacts? I scrolled further and found dozens of photos of our Korean friend sitting next to me, with girls from all the neighboring tables sitting on his lap, looking like the king of South Pattaya.
Just a standard Friday night program on the grid.
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