Different Worlds

I had 2 conversations tonight with 2 very different people living in the same city but in completely different worlds. I spoke English to X and Thai to Y.

1) Sex pat X....who I have known for 12 years. X, has been a sex tourist in Thailand since the mid 90s and before that for 10 years in the Philippines. His whole life is about sex and finding new girls to take up to his room. Today X was talking to me about the good old days when this bar was open and that disco had so many beautiful girls etc. He talked about how the prices for the girls was cheaper, how life back then was so wonderful. When I left him he was going upstairs to his room with a 18 year old girl who was half his size and maybe 1/3 his weight. (X is about 68).

2) Taxi driver Y...Y is a man with 3 children (2 daughters and 1 son) he supports by driving a taxi in Bangkok. His children live in Issan province on a farm where everything is cheaper. He works 12 hours a day driving taxi and in the good old days (10 years ago, about the same time period sex pat X was talking about) he told me how he used to send 5000 baht a month back home but now he could only send 4000. He talked about how the price of various foods had doubled or even tripled in price and yet he was making less and less money.

2 men, same city, same night but 2 very different worlds.