Well I'll tell you that the guys hanging around that whole region across from from the Grand Palace didn't know. I speak clearly and with a smile try all different pronunciations. These guys had no idea what I was talking about: room, hotel, short-stay, or other simple things. I was trying to ask if they knew a place to go. Unbelievably, some didn't even know "sex."

When I went with the second guy, I kept saying "Palace Hotel" and he had no idea what I was talking about. We got into a taxi, and the driver had no idea. Luckily, I had picked up a card for the hotel a few hours earlier. Then, I heard, "aaaaahhhhhhh . . . Palace Hotel!".

That whole cruising experience was bizarre. It was like they never saw a farang in that area before, and their whole mentality was getting picked up by a Thai in a car, and they never saw a farang there before (like what was I doing there?).

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