Birthday Body Shots
Trip Start
Feb 25, 2006
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Trip End
Jun 24, 2009
Chiang Mai,
Thailand
Friday, September 12, 2008
You only turn a Quarter Century Old once in your life so you might as well make the most of it. I seem to remember jumping out of a perfectly good airplane after 8 hours of skydiving school somewhere over Pasa Robles for mine just before embarking on my first extended journey around SE Asia. Even though Sheena had to leave town for work, it didn't stop me from helping one of the girls that she works with turn 25 in fine fashionable form. A bunch of us met at Miguel's Mexican Restaurant for dinner and cocktails. After Miguels, we kept with the Mexican theme when we went to their friend's local bar and brought out a bottle of I don't even know what kind of ToKillya
Birthday Shot
. It certainly wasn't 1800 or even Jose, but it surprisingly didn't taste like mierda either. Gracias Dio por eso. Seeing as I was in a country far from Mexico in a group of about 7 girls and a couple guys, I figured it was only my duty to introduce a fun way to drink tequila. Fortunately in Thailand, there is no shortage of limes, salt or bodies. As I was introducing the concept of a body shot to the group, Keely, the birthday girl, asked a fine question. "What is a body shot?" I felt obliged to demonstrate the process instead of any kind of lengthy boring description. There is one small problem about performing such risque behavior in a new group as you really don't know the players. Unfortunately, I found out a bit later after slowly licking, applying and sucking salt off Keely's neck that she was one of the Thai guys, Robert's, girlfriend. I promptly apologized for not asking permission first and set them up with shots before finishing the reciprocating shot with her. I can't even imagine what he was thinking as he watched me sucking the salt off her neck and taking the lime out of her mouth.
Before I knew it, we were almost out of tequila and we hadn't nearly run out of bodies to do shots off. The bar didn't stock tequila, but in the land of smiles Buddha somehow always seems to provide. Before I poured the last drop, another bottle showed up to keep the fiesta going. I'm not sure who went out to get it or where it came from, but it was a great call
Keely's Bday Party
. By the end of the night just about everyone including one of the Thai girls got into the spirit and a marvelous time was had by all. The next morning wasn't so much fun. I felt like Krap and I'm not being polite. But I could tell that it was more than just a bad tequila hangover. I was really sick. The kind of sick where your scalp to the tip of your hair hurts and your joints feel like they are on fire. Something was clearly not quite right...Thank you all for a very fun evening.
Everyone Tip: If you know me and you feel some kind of strange compulsion to go see Bangkok Dangerous just because it has Bangkok in the title, DON'T! I only say this because that's why I went. I do not want to be responsible for the torture you will have to endure for the next two hours. Even if you are a huge Nicholas Cage fan, you'll come out hating him afterwards for taking this movie. If you need more info, I actually felt so strongly that I registered and posted a comment on IMDB. The only thing that made the price of entry almost worth it was in the beginning when Cage starts describing how dirty and scandalous Bangkok is and I turned to my friend and said, "slimy? Mudhole? My home, this is!
