Arriving at our destination by tuk tuk (in search of beer) with Howard Worden driving
Bali Hugh's: Surf was down that night!
After Titanium Club & Ice Bar closed down some of my friends and I went to Bali Hugh’s Beach Bar & Grill where we witnessed idiotic and alcoholic behavior between the partners (which led to an Australian customer attacking one of the owners, putting him in a choke hold until he conked out and hit the floor). We tried to go to Penny Black but the police shut it down, though we did score one single beer somewhere I am not sure where it came from…
Come on Bangkok! Where can you get a 3 a.m. beer these days?!?
So we decided to go to an all night Thai place near my house called Baan Rie Coffee shop. Take a taxi, right? Hell no! Too damned easy! My friend Howard commandeered a tuk tuk and we (minus another friend, Elmar, who disappeared with some horizontal refreshment, though he didn’t tell any of us beforehand) were on our way…
In order to be a show off, Howard tried to prove we could do a wheelie. Mistake. But we found our wheelie success whenever it was unintended. Howard drove generally worse than a Thai tuk tuk driver, which led me to believe he’d done this before. There was a taxi with two lovelies in the back seat so we spent half our time chasing the taxi like a yard dog chases a car. Whenever we’d get close enough Howard or I would bang on their window. If looks could kill that taxi driver would be in prison this morning.
When we finally arrived at our destination we were refused alcohol even though the table behind me had a jug of beer and the table to my right had a bottle of whiskey. I think it had more to do with the Howard Worden show in the parking lot than any police regulations. Oh well…
After the remaining friends went on home and I found an open place still serving beer. A 24 hour dim sum shop next to my office of all places. I waited about an hour there for them to come back but they wouldn’t head my beckoning, the woosies!
Howard Worden on Sukhumvit behind the wheel of a tuk tuk at 0330 hrs
