July 3 2004
My upstairs downstairs Thai vixen

Three times a week, I pay a charming young Thai girl to visit my apartment for an hour or so - but I've never seen her naked. She is, in fact, my maid and her job is to chase the cockroaches away from the dirty dishes and to peel my soiled undies off the wall. She's very cute and her services cost just 1,600 baht ($40) a month.
Because it's cheap, almost everyone in Thailand has a maid and, if you're as uninterested in housework as I am, it's one of the best reasons for living here. Curiously, though, some people regard the employment of others in the home as immoral but I don't really understand why.
Giving a complete stranger the run of your apartment seems strange at first but you soon get used to it. In Thailand, most maids are honest but, in stark contrast, a friend who used to live in Cuba told me that his were all ingenious thieves - his toiletries would slowly get siphoned off and the new batteries in his TV remote would always be swapped for duds.
My own maid is a treasure. She's delightfully shy and polite and as pretty as any go-go dancer. The Thais are a status-conscious bunch, though, and I've been warned that any attempt to be chummy with her would cause serious embarrassment. Consequently, our relationship is rather medieval.
In my History Channel influenced daydreams, I often order the comely wench to disrobe and join her master in the bedchamber - but, if I tried it on for real, the lady of the house might get seriously medieval on my ass. Shagging the maid might be out of the question but I sometimes peer over the top of my newspaper when the little minx is bending over to dust the skirting boards (See The erotic appeal of Thai housework).
Farang women new to Thailand usually express horror at the idea of someone else taking on their domestic drudgery but, very soon, they're happily swapping stories about whose maid is the most ignorant and lazy. Singapore housewives are even worse. Reportedly, they like to relax by nailing their Filipino maids to the kitchen table.
We farang fellas tend to be kinder to our maids and some guys even marry them - but they're often horrified to discover that they've lost a maid and gained a wife.
[Posted to Farang Life by David]
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