the same time the gullible Westerner was lampooned as a Les Patterson-like figure: stumbling drunk, sloppily dressed, with buck teeth. The foreigner had been him.
Xenophobic to the core the Thai audience, which included some of the most dangerous characters in the country’s sex industry, loved it; laughed themselves silly.
The only one not laughing was him. The customer. The one whose money they had so gleefully plundered.
The actors portraying two of the central figures in the story Michael had dared to tell were much better looking and more talented than the characters on which they had been based.
Some of the dancing and professionally choreographed skits showed off the Thais innate musical and acting talents.
But it would have been a damn sight cheaper, more decent and have had far less consequence if, instead of ridiculing an elderly foreigner, they had just apologised for cheating him and given back the money stolen.
With the edgy, testosterone driven pride of Thai men, saying sorry to a foreign tourist or returning money was not in a sex worker’s code of conduct.
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