Thailand Bar Roulette and Three Unusual Relationship Stories

Story 1 The Nong Khai Bar and the Roulette Problem

I moved to Khon Kaen in Isan about a year ago there’s not a whole lot to do and the local scene feels like being there done that rather quickly for a bit of variety I started to visit the neighboring cities of Udon Thani and Nong Khai there’s a train that runs from Khon Kaen to both cities and it’s actually an enjoyable ride through the Isan countryside

on one of these trips to Nong Khai I stumbled into one of the beer bars to shoot some pool as you said in a recent video the bar girls are fantastic pool players and I enjoy shooting pool with them I grew up with a pool table in my home but got bored with the game over time as players you find out in the bars back home are generally average as with little challenge the game can get boring like I’m sure many of the viewers here I became humbled quite quickly after initially thinking I could walk into these bars in Thailand and beat the best of the girls in each bar I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve been schooled by these girls on many occasions at the pool table I enjoy playing the girls for drinks it ensures you get their best game and the girls have actually been the ones buy me drinks on quite a few occasions win or lose though I usually end up buying them a few drinks regardless at the end of the day I’m there for fun and they are there to make money but they seem to be having fun as well many of the girls that leave the scene often return and sometimes it’s not because of money I’ve known quite a few that were being taken care of by their foreign boyfriends but couldn’t handle staying at home and missed the whole bar scene often returning to it despite not needing the money

I walked into a bar in Nong Khai and I took a seat at the bar I swiveled around to watch the girls all playing pool together one of them really caught my eye she seemed to be in her late twenties with a stunning body she was wearing one of those chinese gowns that had nothing but lace going up the left side so you could see quite a bit of her body from head to toe and she was in fantastic shape we kept locking eyes and smiling I’ve been around the block so chalk this up to what is usually flirting to get the drinks going I had a few drinks and decided to check out some of the other bars but kept thinking about that fantastic body and smile I soon found out myself back in the bar just in time for a tournament of killer killer is a popular game here in Isan that usually has the whole bar playing with a nice mix of Thai and foreigners including many local Thai men who enjoy drinking and shooting pool in these bars also everyone puts in a hundred Thai Baht and gets three marks you lose a mark when you miss a shot last one standing wins a pot this time the last one standing was a mamasan all those years in the bar had really developed her into a sharp player

after the game I started playing with the girl I was there for and I bought her a few drinks we really clicked well together and there was no doubt she was the one I wanted to see for more drinks back at the hotel I gave the usual let’s get out of here to get the ball rolling but she seemed caught off guard and asked me to stay until her shift was over at midnight

the bar scene here during the pandemic feels like a throwback to the times of pro prohibition we almost drink from coffee cups or with a zero alcohol bottle next to our cups and the aluminium doors roll down at 10

O’clock we continue behind closed doors with the doors down the girls will sometimes start to panic and get everyone to stay still and quiet while the lights go off they’ve picked up the scent of the police rolling down the street it’s a bizarre experience that makes me think this is what it must have felt like back in the 1920s it’s doubly bizarre known that everyone knows what’s going on including the badges rolling by outside but they are all playing their part in the charade like many things here in Thailand the rules are selectively enforced and a lot of what goes on is just for show

I’m getting off track quite a bit but I think these points might give viewers some insight into things that normally don’t get discussed or that are you unique to these times the aluminium doors rolled down and knee and I continued to play pool I thought maybe she was trying to save me the bar fine by waiting a bit longer which is something the girls will do sometimes so midnight rolls around and I’m like great now let’s go but she wants to stay longer and is behaving in a very coy way there is no talk of money and the whole thing just feels out of sorts from how this usually goes down viewers should know that not all girls leave with customers and they shouldn’t take offense if a girl won’t leave with them as some don’t do it and are content with the money they get from the drinks I was thinking maybe she was one of these girls but they will almost always tell you this the moment you mention wanting to leave with them she seemed very conflicted about staying her going and I finally said I’m leaving if you want to stay then stay if you want to go then let’s go then gave her the often used expression here in Thailand up to you she said wait five minutes I want to change and get my things

The Nong Khai Bar Scene During the Pandemic

I’m thinking well what was that so hard what was so hard about that she changes still looking stunning and we leave she needs to head back to her nearby apartment for some more things again I’m finding this odd as the girls are usually well prepared after that she wants to get some food I’m thinking is she trying to milk me for all I’m worth the whole thing feels like she is delaying things and she is acting like a nervous girl on prom night we finally make it back and she wants to eat drink and talk no I mean actually drink again this feels like more delay tactics and it feels like she’s never done this before it’s all odd to me and I’m getting a bit frustrated

she showers and despite her nerves we end up having a great time I leave a small gift on the nightstand and expect she will be gone soon but she’s got all her stuff to stay overnight and seems to expect she will be sleeping here despite my never mentioning I wanted an overnight guest again I find this odd and also find it odd that she didn’t bring any protection but expected me to wear some again these girls are usually prepared for everything but she didn’t seem prepared for anything

I went to sleep at about 2 a. 2 a.m.

I wake up and see she is playing roulette on her phone I think she can’t sleep and is playing a phone game no big deal I wake up another couple of hours later and she is still playing and seems to be getting upset I take a closer look and see that this is an online casino she grabs a gift I left and asked me to walk with her downstairs I have no idea what’s going on but out of curiosity I agree she heads out the lobby and a motorbike where two people pulls up she hands them the money they why each other and then the motorbike speeds off ah it’s dawned

On me they’re collectors for the casino I worked in the casino business for 12 years and roulette has one of the biggest advantages for the house I’ve witnessed roulette destroy people financially in a number of times over the years we head back up and I fall back to sleep I wake up at about 7am she is still playing roulette wow this should have been a huge red flag but that should have prevented me from what was to come but we’re all human and I still make mistakes I try to explain to her about my experience working in the casinos and how roulette is a losing proposition in the long run I feel bad for her because after so many years in the casino an addict is pretty easy to spot and I know where it leads

I have a train to catch so a few hours later we say our goodbyes and I part ways I don’t think much of it over the next coming days it was after all a nice little adventure

life starts to get stale again back in Khon Kaen and I decide to once again catch a train

A Second Trip to Nong Khai

it feels like a rare adventure to take during these times and you get to lose a bit more in a place where you you don’t live so I feel a bit like an excited kid when I take these trips I think about me and decide to head over to her bar and say hi I walk in and she is having drinks with some customers over at a table her eyes light up when I enter and I feel that the chemistry we had was not just something my imagination had crafted I grab a seat at the bar and decide to have a few beers listen to the music and let her do her thing I’m an adult and I have no problem moving on if she’s busy it’s part of the game

shortly after my arrival she breaks from the group and saddles up next to me

a few drinks in I mentioned I want to go bar hopping telling her it was great seeing her again and then gather myself to leave she grabs my arm and says I’m going with you grabs her stuff and we’re out the door I’m thinking what about needing to stay until midnight like before but I do I don’t mention it and no transsexual conversation ever took place again it’s odd we hop a few bars and have a great time together we really have some great chemistry and that translates translates into great chemistry back at the hotel

we drink late into the night back at my hotel I sleep soundly and

awake at about 8 a.m. to the site of kneeplaying roulette on her phone and smacking her forehead in frustration more lectures from me that I know will fall on deaf ears but I can’t help but think my time in the casino business might pull a little more weight and have a chance to help her I can explain to her things about the game she doesn’t understand while some gamblers know the odds and continue I know from my time in the business that many don’t and that she almost surely doesn’t it’s a sad fact that many of the girls in the bars are she finally falls asleep I leave a gift on the nightstand and prepare to catch the train out of town I kill a few hours and then wake her to give her a kiss and say goodbye she’s confused about my gift on the nightstand she says you paid for all the food and drinks last night why are you giving me this I’m thinking is this a put on I say it’s a gift for you she tries to give it back I’m thinking no need for a show here just take it but she keeps persisting eventually I convince her that it will stay on the nightstand whether she takes it or not kiss her goodbye and I head out of town

we text back and forth quite often after that she says she wants me to have the money back that I had gifted her and asked for my bank account number so we can tr so I can transfer she can transfer the money to me viewers should know that exchanging account numbers for this purpose is not uncommon in Thailand but whoa I’m very skeptical even though we are now beyond

Being acquaintances and I trust her there is no way I’m giving my bank account number to a gambler I know how crafty and at it can be and I’m not taking any chances I’d rather she have the money anyway we chat every day and I eventually learned that she had only been working in the bar for a month and had never left with anyone before or since now I know what some of the vets are thinking ah come on mate what a mug but I am no rookie all the things I found odd before finally started to add up and yeah I believe her not because of what she said but because of all the circumstantial evidence based on her actions and behaviors I’ll say I am in good shape above average looking uh carry a conversation with women better than most guys at the bar in case anyone is trying to find a reason for why she broke her ways for me she was also becoming way more attached than other girls I’ve chatted with before she was constantly wanting to video chat it was becoming a bit smothering but because we’d had so much fun together I enjoyed more of it than I normally would

A Relationship Begins to Change

I’ve always said I would never date a bar girl the cautionary tales were here on your channel being one of many reasons

when she mentions wanting to come live with me I’m like Whoa, pump the brakes first off I’m not going to support you or give you a salary like some foreigners do you can come here for a week and we can see how it goes I’ll pay for all your food and drinks but that’s it my gut was telling me it was a bad idea but below the gut I was thinking this could be a lot of fun for a week she’s not Thai she was from one of the bordering countries and she was asking if you need id to get a train ticket or if they check id on the train there are lots of people living in Thailand from the border countries and not all of them are up to date on their visas it’s becoming apparent she can’t hop on the train my gut was telling me this is you’re out below the gut was telling me just rent a car drive up there and bring her here I tell her if I do this she has to promise me to stop playing roulette she agrees and I’ll note that I never saw her play again

I rent the car make the drive and we have a wonderful drive back it felt like we were newlyweds the beginning of a relationship is always the time I enjoy most we get back and while I’m out getting food for us I get a text asking me to pick up some sanitary napkins that time of the month has just begun oh for pete’s sake I can’t believe my luck obviously it’s not something you can fake so I knew it wasn’t an excuse to avoid aerobics and while she had been shy the first night the second night she had been more eager than me at least she was great company and loved giving me fantastic strong massages for literally hours on end she really treated me great I was even thinking I know what I’ve said in the past but this might go somewhere besides I think you can make an exception considering the circumstances which had come to light about her being a drinks only girl I’ve had a few weeks to distance myself from the situation and yes I firmly believe she was being honest about that the more I have thought about it despite it being that time I decided to make the best of the situation and still have a great week together she made sure I was happy in other ways the second night we decided to go out for a few drinks and check out the local scene we had a good time for a few hours then returned home

this is where our story takes a turn for the worst upon arrival her personality does a 180 degree turn and she starts screaming at me in Thai I can’t understand why she is mad but she is furious about something through translation apps I learned she is now listing off a dozen things I have done wrong these mainly stem from

Jealousy issues she is mad about photos of my ex being on my phone she is mad about me glancing at another woman in the bar she is mad well it turns out she’s just mad she proceeds to hang out on the balcony and yell all night at me and tie I try pleading with her to stop I don’t understand what she is saying and I have no idea why she is this angry I have a view of the courtyard which echoes horribly and the entire community can surely hear her the only bright side I can see is that because she is yelling in Thai the neighbors might think it is a local couple having a row in one of these outbursts she suddenly breaks for the kitchen grabs a knife and starts charging me

time slows down I can’t believe this is happening my mind is suddenly split as I process what is happening part of me is fight-or-flight mode the other part is thinking oh this is a female time move I’ve read about enough times to know it’s just a tactic they like to use to get your attention tactic or not I’m not taking any chances she is literally half my size and it takes size and it takes little effort to wrestle her to the bed and take the knife away I proceed to gather up all the sharp objects in the house and place them out of reach from her hours of yelling continue and as the sun is rising she’s finally starting to tire she assures me I can go to sleep because she really loves me and wouldn’t hurt me oh well that certainly puts my mind at ease I’ll sleep like a log after I hear her start to snore I eventually fall asleep as well

I wake up thinking how the hell am I going to get rid of her I can’t just put her on a train or bus she can’t use her id crap I’m gonna have to drive her back and I want it done quickly no way do I want her staying any longer than necessary but I need to work so it needs to wait a day I mention that I will take her back but she is insisting on staying the week and apologizes profusely she’s literally at my feet begging forgiveness I need to buy at least another day so I tell her she’s forgiven and hope that is just an issue related to it being that time of the month and that it won’t happen again I tell her that it can’t happen again or I’m calling the cops this carries extra weight or I think it will because she can’t be showing her id

Trying to End the Relationship

I finish work and hope for the best she has been especially sweet and trying to salvage things as best as she can I soon start to feel comfortable again and we head out for dinner things surely aren’t going to be back to the newlywed stage again but I do manage to let her back into the fold slightly if for no other reason than to make the drive back less miserable than I already anticipate it will be

we get home that night and she is about to slip into bed wearing the same clothes she was wearing when we were out and about I’m a bit of a neat freak and ask her to change her clothes and shower before bed explaining that it’s a quirk of mine and that during these times we should be more sanitary anyway whoa she takes this the wrong way she thinks I’m having I’ve insinuated that she is unclean takes horrible offense and starts screaming at me and tie again I explain look you saw me do the same thing it’s a rule I hold to myself she won’t listen to reason and I see that last night wasn’t just a fluke for whatever reason she just wants to fight and the reasons don’t matter I have absolutely no tolerance for this I have to hatch a plan and end this as soon as possible

the night proceeds with her threatening to jump off the balcony several times I stop her the first few times and I’m thinking yep another tactic I’ve read about many times she’s probably not serious but I’m not taking any chances

eventually just too exhausted I lay in bed looking at the ceiling wondering if I’m going to hear the screaming of a jumper but knowing damn well I won’t not getting the attention she wants she now says I’m leaving and proceeds to start packing hoping I will try to stop her I’m frozen in bed praying to all the gods out there please let this be the one thing she has been sincere about I’m mentally prepared to rush to the door and lock it the minute I hear it close but of course it never opens normally I would call the police in this situation and I threaten to but I don’t do it because even though she is making

My life hell I don’t want her getting into trouble that would await her if I did that

as the sun rises she finally exhausts herself yes she stayed up all night yelling because I asked her to wear some pajamas in bed and not her street clothes I need to think fast this can’t go on

I call in sick and grab the nearest rental car I can find I had given her a second chance I know she will refuse to leave again I need to come up with a plan I say to myself come on bob think of something you can come up with an idea when she wakes I explained to her that this isn’t going to work and that I will be taking her back today as I predicted she immediately starts refusing and begging for forgiveness I launch into my plan I explain look you lost a second chance I told you that if you behaved like that again I wasn’t taking you home I explained to her that I’ve always kept my word to her and that this was not going to be an exception I am keeping my word again and she will be leaving but calm down I have an idea you blew the second chance but I’m gonna give you one last chance I’ll take you home and I will see you on weekends but it’s your last chance if we fight again it will be over she seems to understand that it’s this deal or nothing and finally relents

The Drive Back to Nong Khai

as I’m packing she inquires about me leaving some things at her place since I will be coming to stay on the weekends I’ve no choice but to sell this so I say of course and begin to pack some things she knows I can’t live without I’m sure I can casually transfer some of them into my day pack once we arrive

I somehow survive the drive back and believe me I’m sick of bouncing between these two cities at this point I unpack my stuff and put on my best academy award performance that evening and leave the next day successfully transferring the things I need without notice I get home and breathe a sigh of relief it’s over

the next day I go to grab one of these items I must have and gulp is not there there were two items that I can’t part with I had accidentally left behind how could I have been so careless I can’t believe this I’m actually gonna have to go back as I had said I would do in my plan

I take the train back that weekend and she is bubbling with joy and saying she was worried I had only said those things to get rid of her and would abandon my things again I aim for the oscar with my acting but now I need to do it to not just verbally but physically as well it’s going to be another night of fighting if I don’t sell it fortunately despite me not being mentally attracted to her any anymore I was still very much physically attracted to her and had no problems pulling off this final act or acts I had casually retrieved the items I needed and was waiting for my chance to escape the next morning after waking she began asking me about my ex after this went on for a bit she was getting pushy about it I used it as a reason for losing her last chance I grabbed my bag threw on my shoes and bolted for the door of course she tried to stop me but being half my size I easily brushed her aside and began walking hurriedly down the street about 100 meters later I hear her screaming darling darling and look back to see her running after me she’s like the terminator she just won’t give in I begin running knowing she can’t catch me she quickly gives up and as luck would have it the next train is leaving soon I run all the way to the train station and quickly buy a ticket in the station I find a spot where a passerby can’t see in for fear she will try and find me

she is texting me non stop and I won’t warn her that I will need to block her she dares me to so I do what a relief over the next few weeks she will update her line profile and timeline with messages and photos and clearly aimed at getting to me to unblock her you can still see those when you’ve blocked someone

Story 2 The Two Sisters with Matching Tattoos

I thought I might tell a funny Bangkok story that happened to me this was all a few years ago many of the details are fuzzy except for the punchline in the end I’m a singaporean in my 40s now who went to Thailand several times a year mostly for work when I had time I would spend most evenings in the nightlife areas sometimes I would take a go-go or bar live but always try to keep in mind about the nature of the ensuing relationship in case some feelings crept up unawares I’ve been to Nana Plaza on Sukhumvit Soi 4 quite a lot I sometimes I went to the most popular go-go bar there at the time but not as often as I would have liked the ladies there are mostly good looking but it was far too crowded and the waitresses can be too pushy however on one visit there was a go-go dancer who was so attractive I could not help get her to sit at my table and drink with me she had these features resembling a particular south korean pop star actress this was in contrast contrast which I liked a lot to her very elaborate multi coloured tattoos on her bodies tattoos of birds including a gorgeous peacock or phoenix going down her calves let me call her mrs tattoo I asked if she’d like to come to my hotel room and she said yes

I did not feel like taking a taxi there as my hotel was located in the middle between nana and Soi Cowboy we walked about halfway to our destination

it began to rain a little so we hurried this ended been a minor mistake as mrs tattoo had high heels on

when we arrived at my hotel building I noticed her cheerful mood had reduced by about 20 percent to sort of reset the situation I thought we might take a quick drink down at the hotel basement bar the bar which is world famous was filled to the brim with ladies he’s talking about Thermae Cafe mrs tattoo was very curious about the establishment I’m sure a few of your viewers know about this basement bar

after our drink we left to go up to my room on the elevator ride there she asked me a lot of questions she had never heard of that basement bar from her facial reactions to my answers it appeared she was making a mental note to return to the bar with a few of her go-go lady friends to try her luck

a little bit later on she was even more beautiful in my room come to think of it she was probably the most gorgeous woman I had ever been with up to that point

A Rainy Walk to the Hotel

I had a splendid time but had problems completing the d due to having drunk a little too much at night my delay seemed to upset her a bit I had to convince her that it was me not her but I hope to see her again on my next trip back home in singapore I would sometimes catch myself daydreaming about her

I looked for her again during the preceding trip but she was gone I did

Not memorize her badge number so I had no choice but to put it down as one of those single happy memories to cherish I tried not to let my missing her and the regret overwhelm me her go-go bar closed due to some issue it then reopened a few months later then changed locations one day a few years later I was at the new go-go location and suddenly saw mrs tattoo there in the corner she was busy entertaining some other customers and did not notice me from what I could see she had not changed a lot she still had the same tight body in the tattoos finally after about half an hour of trying to get her attention I asked one of the waitresses to ask mrs tattoo directly whether she would like to go with me the waitress sent the message I saw mrs tattoo look back at me locking eyes with me she smiled sweetly yes she remembered me my heart sparked with joy instead of going to my place which was far away we went to a nearby hotel about five minutes from nana in the hotel room before I went to shower I gladly remarked how pleased I was to see her as I thought we would never meet again I said that I thought she stopped working at the go-go bar or went to work somewhere else when it closed

when I returned from shower I know she still had her clothes on and still held her handbag and wore her shoes was she preparing to leave for a second I thought I had been scammed in some way she said she had something important to tell me she said this was the first time we’d ever been together I was at first surprised and was a bit hurt by this so she really had forgotten me which I can understand could be normal as go-go girls meet many people then she took out a smartphone on a smartphone and showed me pictures of another girl who looked a lot like her

it turned out that I had went out with her elder sister many years ago they really did look a lot alike and I even had to ask her twice whether they were actually twins not just sisters they even had the same type of multicolored bird tattoo only that this younger mrs tattoo miss tattoo was not as elaborate or big

I began laughing hard and she did too somehow this established a closer rapport between us

she asked whether I still wanted to be with her I said yes she beamed with delight our time in that hotel room was more relaxed the younger miss tattoo had a more playful way about her than her sister her face was continually smiling widely and warmly every few minutes I had to stop and laugh again at my friend’s mistake

The Two Sisters Reveal the Mistake

at this stage a turn of events in which we found ourselves

she told me that her sister was away for two or three years but might return even today I still did not know what that meant maybe the older sister was at school or maybe she was overseas for a temporary period or maybe she was married to someone and was planning to end it in two or three years time but I did not ask further I never did see either of them again

Story 3 Thailand in 1968 and a Future Wife

I first arrived in Thailand in September 1968 as a member of the U.S. Army my first duty station was incorrect after a brief stay there part of my unit and myself were assigned to a base camp this was an engineering unit involved in pipeline construction Pattaya had been 20 miles away some of the guys would head there on weekends in October 1968 the nipper lodge was the only hotel I recall a photo taken at that time shows a small populated fishing village with very few developments back then the circumvent highway had one lane in each direction we’d flag down a blue bus on our time off and 15 Thai Baht or 75 cents would deliver you to the Ekamai bus station in Bangkok

From there we’d grab a local bus for 50 satang or 2.5 cents and head to our various homes

I did a total of two years in Thailand to finish out my army enlistment

it was three months into my second tour in the country in January 1970 that I met my future wife this was at a base camp adjacent to the lao border in the province of Sakon Nakhon

she was employed by the U.S. Army as a house girl one of my obnoxious one liners is I made the maid so he spelled that that I made is m a d e and the maid as in maid be celebrating 50 years of marriage coming up on the 2nd of February 2022 we would have celebrated this event in Bangkok if COVID had been behind us and also celebrated Chinese New Year with her family