Service Girls

Service Girls, water color on paper, 5x7 inch

In Thailand, the phrase Service Girl or Service Boy can mean a waitress or waiter, sales clerk, attendant or also someone who is available for sex, it depends on the situation. It’s often ambiguous. If you’re asked, do you want special or special service, it can mean anything.  If, however, you ask, do you provide service, and they answer yes, it means they’re available for sex, even if you didn’t mean to ask. Whether in a department store, coffee shop, snooker place, barber shop, gas station or dry cleaner.  Thailand can be a very confusing place for people who are not Thai and think sex is something special.

Lady Barber

Lady Barber, water color on paper, 5x7 inch

In Thailand, getting a haircut can mean more than one thing.  Especially if the barber is a woman and the room with the mechanical chair has a door that can be closed.  A Thai woman would never tell her husband, Honey, I think you need a haircut.  She knows he will get one on his own, whenever he feels the need.  The wife’s only defense is to be so essential to her husband’s life and business in so many ways that the haircuts make no difference.