Dear Hillary,
What with all the Eurozone doom and gloom internationally, countries going bankrupt (you can buy Portugal for an easy down payment and a few shekels a week) and America falling off its own fiscal cliff, rice prices going through the roof, petrol becoming a commodity nobody can afford, do you think this will produce a knock-on in the charges in the red light areas in Thailand?
Robert
Dear Robert,
For once I am stumped for words. I am not sure what you mean, Petal. What are these things called “Red light areas”? Do you mean the traffic lights, but these are also orange and green and are ignored by all road users as being unimportant, so I presume that wasn’t what you meant. If you mean the bar areas, then you should be more specific, Petal. With rice, the staple food in Thailand doubling in price, one must expect that beer, the staple drink in the bar areas, will also be going up in price. I cannot think of any other costs in the bar areas, as prostitution is against the law as the nice policeman told me, and therefore does not happen. A “knock-on” as you describe perhaps gives rise to the term “knocking” that some shops get called, but that’s way out of my understanding, my Petal. Perhaps you mean donations to one’s favorite Buffalo Rehabilitation Unit (BRU) that may have to be increased, but this I am not sure of. I suggest discreet questions to the mamasans might yield better results than asking me, but perhaps you should wear a parachute, in case you have to jump off that fiscal cliff!
