Ok, night one of 2 wks in Patong end of Sep. begin Oct. 2nd trip, went in Feb. 02 for 1 week. Ended up at the Blue Lotus bar tossing back beers, fighting jet lag, and extremely thrilled to be back. As midnight approached and the beers were kicking in caught the eye of one of the girls at the bar. One thing led to another and we started dancing. That rear end of hers was having a fabulous effect on things. Blue Lotus was about to close at this time and the girl tells me you no pay bar fine, go Tai Pan, I meet you. I asked where Tai Pan? (Didn’t encounter it the trip before.) You ask someone, they show, she said. Wandered up to the top of Bang-La and encountered a freelancer on the corner so asked her. She said I show and grabbed my arm and started walking me toward the club. I turned to her as I saw Tai Pan and said I was meeting someone. Kept repeating this until we got to the door where the staff overhearing me whisked her quickly and efficiently off to one side and I went in. Blue lotus girl shows up in short order and of course more beers and dancing. After about an hour of this I was really starting to wear down and the girl didn’t seem to be showing much interest so I headed for the exit to go crash, HARD. Freelancer was still waiting outside the door and expressed a lot of interest. When I told her I was going to hotel her price did a nosedive splash with a quickness from 800 baht to 400 baht in extremely short order. She gets all excited and starts leading down Raht-U-Thit and ducked down an extremely dark road behind patong tower. Halfway down the alley it hit me, don’t know if it was jet lag, drunk, or only 7 days experience in this scene or what but it just didn’t feel right and I came to a dead stop. Said no, I’m going to hotel. She looked at me looked around and pointed somewhere into the darkness and said my room right there. I repeated I’m going to hotel, and walked away. She didn’t like that one little bit started frantically grabbing at me knocking my cell phone on the ground. She snatched her hands back to herself saying I sorry, I sorry. I just shook my drunken head grabbed phone and made for the main road and slammed into the first tuk tuk and handed the driver my card for the hotel. This girl caught up and started hollering why you go, me no lady boy over and over alternately pulling up the front of her shirt and down the shorts. Didn’t expose much but everyone on the street including the tuk tuk driver was getting a kick out of the scene. By now I had gotten over the irritation with myself and the situation I had gotten into and gave her my best Cheshire grin and happy wave and said I don’t care, bye. Tuk tuk took off and a minute into the trip guess who is behind me on a motorcyke hollering and waving. Eventually lost her. Most doubts that I did the right thing evaporated at that moment, she was way too desperate. Maybe I missed an excellent time, maybe I avoided getting rolled. Who knows? When traveling alone I believe if it don’t look right, feel right, smell right, or taste right just walk away. Cheers.