Helped my “friend with benefits,” Joy, celebrate her thirty-second birthday yesterday. Took to lunch at Palm Tree then back to my place for dessert. Something we both enjoy.
She’s also one of the all-time bests I’ve enjoyed sharing my bed with. She went home satisfied and so was I. Win-win!
After a recuperative nap, I headed out to Cheap Charlies for some beers. It’s a little distressing when you are the only customer and your find yourself surrounded by desperate young women. I prefer to drink with one of my favorites, but lately I’ve made an exception and helped a couple of gals make some drink commissions. I also bought a little food from downstairs to share and they voraciously devoured that in next to no time.
I’ve said it before, the bars here with maybe just a couple of exceptions, are really struggling. Tourism seems to be coming back if the hotels and beaches are any indication, but those folks are primarily Filipino families, not the clientele the bars cater to. I guess the drinking establishments will either hold out until foreign tourists are allowed back in the country or they will go broke. President Duterte decreed the other day that face shields are no longer required so maybe that’s a positive sign. We’ll see.
In the meantime, I’ll continue to enjoy views like this one for as long as I can:
On my way home, I popped into Alaska Club for the first time in several months. Once again, I was the only customer. It was actually almost depressing. Alaska is the first bar I ever visited in the Philippines (back in its Angeles City incarnation) so I sort of have a sentimental attachment. The owner, Jerry, has been stuck back in the USA for over a year now. The girls told me there are many nights when they have no customers at all. There were at least a dozen gals “working” last night, so the bar must be losing money big time. Good on Jerry for keeping his staff employed during these hard times. No idea how long he can continue bleeding money though. I bought a couple of lady drinks and had a chair massage to help out a little.
Everything changes I suppose and life goes on. Until it doesn’t. Still, there is no place else I’d rather be. Things just keep getting crazier and crazier back home.
Sorry to hear that business isn’t doing so well. I’ll hold out hope that various governments finally recognize the pandemic has been over for a while, and they finally reopen their doors, quarantine-free, so struggling businesses can breathe.
Joy’s not that cute, but if she’s got a good personality, that counts for more than looks. To be fair, I’m not that cute, either.
LOL, might not be gorgeous but then she is young and willing
Kev, yes it does seem that most governments are beginning to come to their senses. Then again, this is the Philippines and leadership here is going to find it difficult to let go of the opportunities for graft and corruption the pandemic has brought them. More and more the locals are ignoring the edicts from on high, so maybe that is cause for hope.
QP, yes. Young, willing, and enthusiastic! That’s a potent combo for an old fuck like me to enjoy.