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Pattaya again - the chippendales.
So we climbed back on determined not to fall in again, and i had been frantically scheming a less painfull exit strategy. i worked out that if i lept in the air as soon as i felt it going, and jumped the other way it would be less painful. Don't ask me why, it made sense at the time.
Do you remember when you were small there was a craze over some little toys on a spring with a sucker?'
you would lick the sucker and stick it to a table and then wait for it to go flying in the air like a missile.
so off we go again after taking about 50 attempts to climb back on the banana, and now knowing how it worked, managed to counter balance for a bit, and then i felt it go....
so off i went in to the air like the passenger in the ejector seat in the Aston Martin in the James Bond film while jonnie and the others wondered what had got in to me as i they saw me disappear over their heads and they carried on with the ride that apparently had been no where near crashing.
I surfaced and all i could see was a dot in the horizon, as everyone went in to the distance. You see the driver is not expecting some idiot to leap off, all he looks for is for the banana to overturn, so obviously he carried on. and on. and on
Yes everyone was waving, and screaming at the driver, but that is what you do to the driver, wave and scream at him, so he just laughed apparently and went even faster. Luckily the girls spoke the lingo, or i would probably still be there now.
Play the jaws music.......
So after my Jaws moment they picked me up then we stopped off at a hotel built on stilts in one of the bays so that we could use their showers before we returned back.
Not realising that we had been directed to the public toilet area for the bar and restaurant of the hotel, Jonnie and i did not realise it but we put on a bit of a chippendale show for the local restaurant and hotel guests who could see us from the other side.
To make it worse, Jonnie started to show me his "battle scars" as this woman walked in to go to the toilet. Well you should have seen the look on this poor womans face.
It did not help that we were also hammered on tiger beer that we had taken on to the boat, so sadly did not take the situation as seriously as her.
Never mind, at least it will be a holiday she will never forget.
As all good things must come to an end, they did, so it was time to return to Bangkok for Jonnie to return to his new job at the 'silence of the lambs' clinic and for me to travel on my epic adventure.
Rather than travel the same day, we decided to hit Bangkok the day before and go out in style.........
Next installment.............Bangkok and Prohibition............Andy and Jonnie go underground.
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