Friendly Africans in Sukhumvit.

[bob smith]

Yesterday I was visiting a friend in Bangkok and was accosted by these 2 friendly african guys on my way to 7/11.

They kept calling me ‘bro’ and making sniffing nosies.

 

I thought it was a bit strange but they seemed nice enough and even gave me a fist bump and a ‘respect' !

I felt like a real homeboy, one of the main g’s. 

 

are people always this friendly in Sukhumvit or was it just my good energy they were attracted to?

Edited October 25, 2023 by bob smith

[Prubangboy]

Been a few years, but I used to go to African disco's in a side-soi across from The Grace Hotel.

 

I'm a world music fan and they def had the afro-beats. I gave them some cd's a couple of times. It would be hard to visit an African nigh club in Africa as a solo-whitie.

 

Super-friendly people. All kinds of downers like like Xanax for sale in the bathroom. A few marriage proposals from women who really need to lay off of the all grease and yucca diet.  

 

[2baht]

24 minutes ago, bob smith said:

They kept calling me ‘bro’ and making sniffing nosies.

 

    Apparently there is some flu going around! 😷😉

[bob smith]

4 minutes ago, 2baht said:

 

    Apparently there is some flu going around! 😷😉

that was what I thought as well!!

[circa02]

Did you get the well dressed Indian guy a bit further up the street with... Sir, wow, sir, I tell you are lucky, you want to know why?

 

Always an interesting gauntlet run from Nana to Asok on the odd side number of the street

Edited October 25, 2023 by circa02

[bob smith]

1 minute ago, circa02 said:

Did you get the well dressed Indian guy a bit further up the street with... Sir, wow, sir, I tell you are lucky, you want to know why?

No.

 

But I did get plenty ‘heyy buddy’ and ‘you want suit brother’ … 😄 

[Tom H]

How do they earn money?😉

[2baht]

Just now, Tom H said:

How do they earn money?😉

 

     Not sure, the runny nose may have something to do with it! 🤔

[bob smith]

2 minutes ago, Tom H said:

How do they earn money?😉

more to the point is do they have a work permit??

[Prubangboy]

 

They kept calling you Bro?

 

I believe that is their highest honor, an abbreviation of the complement, Soul Brother.

 

Like getting big upped by Malcom X.

[2baht]

1 minute ago, Prubangboy said:

They kept calling you Bro?

 

I believe that is their highest honor, an abbreviation of the complement, Soul Brother.

 

 

    Bob's a legend! 

[bob smith]

5 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

They kept calling you Bro?

bro, brother, brethren, you name it!

 

I feel like going out and buying a 100,000 dollar gold plated ring today!

[Prubangboy]

Go to Jamaica. If you buy pot from them, they'll call you Blood. 

 

One time, a black person let me call him homie.

[scorecard]

23 minutes ago, bob smith said:

bro, brother, brethren, you name it!

 

I feel like going out and buying a 100,000 dollar gold plated ring today!

 

How thick / thin would the gold plating be?

Edited October 25, 2023 by scorecard

[Chris Daley]

I always ignore those hand things.  One time I did it and could still see the guy standing there just frozen.

[Tom H]

1 hour ago, bob smith said:

more to the point is do they have a work permit??

more to the point is do they have any visa??

Edited October 25, 2023 by Tom H

[bob smith]

Just now, Tom H said:

more to the point is do they have any visa??

how did they get into thailand and on what visa in the first place?

 

questions questions! 

[Will B Good]

I always find them very friendly.....easy for them to discern I'm not interested and they just nod and smile....would not want to cross them though!!!!!

[bob smith]

3 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

would not want to cross them though!!!!!

why, what are they gonna do?

[Will B Good]

5 minutes ago, bob smith said:

why, what are they gonna do?

How do you survive in this world with such a limited knowledge/imagination of the risks?

[bob smith]

3 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

How do you survive in this world with such a limited knowledge/imagination of the risks?

Are you saying that these friendly chaps are violent? 

[Will B Good]

1 minute ago, bob smith said:

Are you saying that these friendly chaps are violent? 

Nope.....can be...might be...there's a chance....not are.

[JimTripper]

if anyone's wondering, i don't think these guys are offering anything in particular. it's more of a handyman situation where they help you out with whatever you need at the time.

[bob smith]

1 minute ago, JimTripper said:

if anyone's wondering, i don't think these guys are offering anything in particular. it's more of a handyman situation where they help you out with whatever you need at the time.

 

kinda like the people that work at asda with ‘happy to help’ badges?

[2baht]

4 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Nope.....can be...might be...there's a chance....not are.

 

    You need to be more careful having one leg on either side of the fence! 🤔

[2baht]

2 hours ago, bob smith said:

bro, brother, brethren, you name it!

 

I feel like going out and buying a 100,000 dollar gold plated ring today!

Make sure it matches the Rolex, Bob!

[Denim]

3 hours ago, bob smith said:

are people always this friendly in Sukhumvit or was it just my good energy they were attracted to?

 

Don't worry about the friendly Africans there but if you run into any friendly scousers run like hell

 

 

[RayWright]

Yesterday I was visiting a friend in Bangkok and was accosted by these 2 friendly african guys on my way to 7/11.

 

Probably trying to show sympathy after last weekend's result.

 

[Bobthegimp]

Many years ago I was with 2 friends from work and a couple of Thai women at one of those after hours places that pop up after the regular businesses close. They even had a truck mounted bathroom system with sinks and flush toilets.  It was off Sukhumvit between soi 13 and 22 if I remember correctly.  

 

What was less good was the number of Africans hanging about for no discernable reason, eyeballing us.  One of our group was a filthy smoker.  One of the Africans used "can I get a light?"  as a segue to try to weasel his way into our conversation and work one of their scams.  Maybe he was an exiled prince.

 

After the second request for a light,  I asked my friend for his spare lighter and handed it to the African and told him it was a gift.  Well, the ungrateful bastard flew into a rage!  He now had no excuse to approach our group and try to work his grift. 

 

 After the Africans left the lady who owned the pop up bar told the Thai women with us that the Africans were scary men who had stabbed someone two nights before. She was terrified of them, but the police and immigration did nothing about the situation. 

[Goat]

5 hours ago, Prubangboy said:

They kept calling you Bro?

 

Maybe Bobs mother had children with more than one man.

Half bro maybe?