All Thai Ladies Are Prostitutes?

I have a friend who is a waitress at a large open-air restaurant frequented by both Thais and farangs. She is attractive, and has a happy, positive personality. She is frequently asked by farangs (never by Thai males) to go with them to their hotel. However, she is not a prostitute and is offended by these farangs. Unfortunately, it happens almost every day.

In their own country, most men would never go up to a waitress in a restaurant and offer her money to sleep with him. Why do they assume that women here are different?

It seems that many men lose all sense of reality when visiting Thailand.

She told me about one guy who was very persistent, asking her several times a day for a week, and raising the amount of money each time. He started at 500 baht, but was offering 5000 baht by the end of the week. Then he left and went back to his home country. She asked me how to handle this situation.

I told her that a guy like that is most likely a jerk, which was a term she did not understand. So I said he was probably too stupid or unwilling to understand that "no" means "no". He is not able to understand how a poor, uneducated Thai woman could resist his charms.

She laughed, and said, "He old, Doug, nah-gih-ad (ugly). He drink bee-ah alla time, alla time. He smoke cigalette. Me no like."

I said, if it happens again, tell the farang that you have a husband and two children. That brings other people into the equation, which should give him pause. If it doesn't, then you can say, "Please don't bother me, I am not a prostitute and am not interested". She wrote down these phrases in Thai phonetics.

Then if he still insists, you can say, "Hit the road, Jack!"

She did not understand that expression, either, so that night I got on the Internet, found the lyrics to the song and printed them out. I also downloaded an MP3 from a file sharing site.

Next day, I showed her the lyrics and played the song on an MP3 player, but first I explained that the song was about a big black woman throwing out this black guy from her life because he was no good. She loved the concept and when she heard the music, which was Ray Charles singing, she loved the song, too. I helped her follow along with the printed lyrics and she memorized some of the song, mainly the chorus.

A few months after this, her English had vastly improved through her own efforts; she is highly intelligent and a very fast learner. She happened to be somewhere relaxing one day with HBO on the TV and the Ray Charles Story came on. She knew who Ray Charles was because of the song I had taught her. She was fascinated with the movie, followed most of the English dialog with no problem, and sang along when "Hit the Road, Jack" was played. She said the movie made her cry several times, but she loved it and wants to watch it again.

I also told her that, if the guy still asks her to have sex after she tells him to hit the road, she is allowed to say "Just fuck off!" and walk away, but that that is the supreme insult, and she should reserve that until the end.

Shortly after that, yet another annoying farang, this one American, would not leave her alone. She used the phrase, "Hit the road, Jack!" and he stopped in amazement, with his mouth hanging open.

"How do you know that?", he asked.

"I have a good teacher," she responded. Then she said she talked about the movie and how Ray Charles was a mix of good and bad, but that she loved his music. She said the guy stopped asking her to sleep with him, but came back every day just to chat. Her English was very good, she was / is highly intelligent, and he just enjoyed her company without trying to get her into bed.

So she now considers this phrase, "Hit the road, Jack!" to be a potent weapon in her arsenal. Sphere: Related Content