We said goodbye to Koh Samet today and took another 4 hour terror minibus ride back to Khao San. The driver on this trip was a lot crazier than the one who drove us to Ban Phe. When he actually made a turning below a bridge and started going the wrong way on a highway, Ee turned to me and said, “Pemandu kita hari ini agak gila kan? (our driver today is quite crazy right?)” LOL.
The rest of our day was spent in Khao San. At night we went to a club (whose name I can’t remember, but it’s on Khao San itself). Ee and Travis went off to dance. Since I wasn’t so keen on dancing (despite the really good house music), I sat down on our table to watch over the drinks. Some time later a young Thai guy on the next table offered me a drink off his bucket (some places in Thailand sell drinks by the bucket). I politely refused. Some time later he appeared at my table and starting speaking to me in Thai. Uh oh.
“Sorry, but I can’t speak Thai,” I told him.
He looked surprised. Then, undeterred, he starting speaking to me again in what sounded like gibberish, because I couldn’t make out a word he was saying, and it wasn’t because the music was loud – I really had no idea wtf he was trying to tell me.
“What?” I said, really confused. He tried talking to me again.
“WHAT?” I repeated, still confused. He tried again. This time I actually caught what he was saying. “You are very beautiful,” he said with a smile. “I love you.”
Uhhh. Wtf?
“Uhh, thank you,” I told him. Because I had no idea what else to say to that. He smiled and tried to ask for my phone number. I told him I had a boyfriend waiting for me back home. He feigned puppy dog sadness. Then I explained that it was pointless because I was flying home tomorrow. Same puppy dog eyes. Then he opened his mouth to talk to me again, but it all came out in gibberish to me. I was still repeating “What??!” when Ee and Travis came back.
“What’s going on?” Travis asked. I explained the situation to him & Ee. The Thai guy stood there, smiling, and tried to make friends with both of them. Sadly both Ee and Travis couldn’t understand him either, and I think he gave up and went back to his table.
“What on earth was he trying to say?” Travis asked me.
“I don’t know. I couldn’t understand a word he was trying to say either.”
“Well, we’re gonna go back to-” Ee started saying.
“Oh god, please do not leave me alone man,” I moaned. So they stayed at the table.
We were halfway chatting when he came back again. Before I knew it he had sat next to me and flashed a cameraphone at our faces. Since there was nothing much I could do I decided to just humour him and smile at the camera. Right after the flash went off, a rather pissed looking girl snatched the phone away from his hands. So I thought maybe she wasn’t too happy that he took a photo of us with her phone. The Thai guy left for his table. Then all of a sudden he turned around and tried to snap a photo of me again. And again she snatched the phone away from his hands.
Travis, Ee and I looked at each other as it dawned on us that she was probably the jealous girlfriend. Oh kayyyyy, now that is just fucked up.
I excused myself to the bathroom then. When I came back, the pissed looking girl glared at me. And then her friend dragged her to the dancefloor.
“Omg you’re such a heartbreaker!” Ee laughingly exclaimed.
“Eh?”
“Just now, while you were gone, he grabbed her and tried to kiss her,” Travis explained. “And she just pushed him away.”
“Yeah, with this face,” Ee scrunched her face at me.
“That is so fucked up,” I commented.
“Yeah. I can’t imagine having to put up with a boyfriend like that,” Ee said.
“Err. Maybe we should leave,” I suggested.
So we left for a restaurant/bar across the street, and there was where we spent the rest of our night.
As a final note, we saw someone peddling this tonight. None of us were adventurous enough to try it though.
– End Day 7 –
