You may be thinking it’s a good idea to do some checking up on your Thai girlfriend by yourself. Good luck to you, but it probably won’t work. Thai bargirl investigations aren’t just about being clever, they require experience and knowing what can and can’t be relied on to get the truth.
First there is the simplest reason of all: you can’t go to the place she works and get the truth just by asking. Thais will almost always lie to the outsider to protect one of their own. Especially when it involves money. There’s a local saying that “you don’t f*** with someone else’s rice bowl” and it’s true.
For them to tell you the truth — to reveal that she’s working in the bar when she says she’s not — would risk cutting your Thai girlfriend off from your sponsorship money. It just isn’t done in the Thai nightlife scene. They are thick as thieves, and that’s what about half of all Thai bar girls are: thieves and mercenaries. Too strong a statement? Look at the numbers.
This is just how Thai culture works, and what’s more they actually think they are doing you a favor by telling you what you want to hear about her loyalty. It obviously would please you to know your girlfriend is faithful to you. So they’ll tell you that and everyone gets “face”. They don’t even see it as a lie, they see it as basic courtesy.
Well, bad news for them. The men of T.B.G.I. Thailand Bar Girl Investigations aren’t Thai. Our only loyalties are to each other, to the truth and to our clients.
Send in Your Friends?
Another idea that seems good at first but is almost always doomed to failure. If you and your friend have ever been to the bar together, he’s going to be recognized as your friend within 5 minutes. Your girl will be out the back door, hiding upstairs or get a call not to come to the bar. This is guaranteed.
Your friend probably hasn’t got the language skills to make sense of the bargirl chatter going on around him. And does he really have the patience to sit in one place for many hours or days? Are you going to ask him to spend his free time like that, especially if he’s around only for an all-too-short holiday?
Last, what if he’s wrong? What if he reports falsely because of inexperience or incompetence, mistaken identity, or any of the hundred mistakes of an unqualified investigator? You could be stuck with a bad girl or lose a good girl, and maybe lose a friend, too. Don’t risk it.
The Right Answer!
The surest path to the truth is an impartial, experienced professional investigator from T.B.G.I. Thailand Bar Girl Investigations. A quality investigation usually costs less than half of what you send your Thai girl in one month.
You get the benefit of knowing the job was done right the first time without question, and without raising suspicions if your Thai girlfriend is one of the good ones.