Dear Hillary,
It’s a new year and we will get another wave of tourists ready and willing for the ladies from the bar to empty their wallets so the buffaloes will sleep better at night. I am sure that this gives Pattaya a bad reputation, so surely there is some way that City Hall can get around this problem. Do you have any answers for them, Hillary?
Mal
Dear Mal,
I have answers for everything, Petal. Some of them are brilliant. Some are downright fibs, but here we go anyway. To be old enough to drink in a bar, it is assumed (often wrongly) that the drinker has a little bit of maturity. Unfortunately that often turns out to be just a very little bit, and size does matter. Honestly bar beer financial dealings never really hit the front pages, but the Beach Road scams do, and these are far more likely to damage the reputation of the city. Considering that City Hall can’t organize the traffic these days, I don’t think City Hall will intervene in the sick buffaloes. I have given up suggesting that the lemmings coming over read Stephen Leather’s “Private Dancer” as I think most cannot read either.
