Gay Boy Thailand

I was in bed for many hours, staring at the clock on the table. I was getting up at 4.30 am to catch an early flight to Malaysia. So of course I could not sleep. The pressure of needing to sleep was enough to make me sleepless.

I nodded off for half an hour a couple of times between 2 and 3 am. That was all I got.

At 4.50 am I woke Chalerm and gave him money. I gave him 1500 baht for the next dentist appointment, 5000 for the term fee which was due at his university, and 2000 for living expenses while I was away.

We did a “kiss kiss” in the air and I was out the door.

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Last time I went to the airport, on Friday, we had a discussion in the taxi about which airport to go to. I said Suvarnapoom. The driver said that if the flight was to Phuket we should go to Don Muang.

I said all Air Asia flights, domestic or international, were from the new airport. Some Nok Air and THAI domestic routes go from the old airport. The driver made a funny face and said he could take us to Suvanapoom, but it would still be the wrong airport and we would miss our flight.

Chalerm believed the taxi driver. He called Air Asia from his mobile phone to ask even if I told him it was a waste of time. Air Asia told him I was right.

Why can’t they listen to me? Sometimes the foreigner knows what he is talking about.

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The Air Asia plane was in need of new paint. And the cockpit window had something that looked like duct tape on the top frame, probably to seal a water leak. But captain Somchai took me safely to Penang, and that is all that matters.

I had a bad thought while we were landing in rain and fog. It was: “Flying can’t be all that difficult if this Somchai guy could learn it”.