Lowman

A bunch of us guys headed off to dinner across the river last night, an area known as Prapadang. We ended up playing a horrible yet endlessly fascinating game John made up known as Lowman. The game is essentially to think of something you wouldn't do unless you were paid a good sum of money to do. Everyone has their price and the goal was to find out what that price was. We went around the circle, each person had to either lowbid the person before them, or declare their willingness to put their share of the money into the pot to pay that sum. The first challenge was to drink a shot of fish sauce. The winning (or losing) bid got lower and lower until Suzy dropped to 240 baht and the rest of us decided it was better to pay than to volunteer to do it for less. Easy. Then the challenge moved up to walking to the bar shirtless, ordering a beer and serving it to the other customers in the restaurant (1200 baht for Norbert), then doing the same but wearing boxer shorts and Suzy's spaghetti strap top (1200 baht for John). Last one was mine, jumping in the Chao Phrya river right next to the restaurant. To me that was substantially easier, but most of the rest shied away from it. I picked up 1000 baht for a nice dip in the river. I woulda dropped to 500 easily.