Flower sellers

[Dr Michael]

I have been in Thai, 5 years, almost every time I go fora drink, the sad little children are around selling flowers
BUT
I NEVER ever saw any one buy one--Did You??

[richard]

Yes there are people who buy but most have rose tinted specs and a BG on their arm. There are people that pay but don't take the flower but the poor mite is not allowed home until she has sold the lot and given the proceeds to the mafia running the operation

The lady with one arm I know runs a network of kids selling. Similarly there are beggars (as in BK) who are dropped at suitable begging sites and later collected and dumped at home. A purge at the night market some time ago by the MIB was rumbled cos they are all on a mobile alert network

[cyberpete]

Belive i bought 1-2 bundles of roses everynight while in HH Really good source of information aswell the little girls. If you need to find someone or something they find out since they run all around

[richard]

Belive i bought 1-2 bundles of roses everynight while in HH Really good source of information aswell the little girls. If you need to find someone or something they find out since they run all around

Some of the elder ones also have a second career

[kendo]

A few phoney monks too, collecting money around the bars, this is a de-robe-able offense that they will get knicked for.

Kendo.

[GLCQuantum]

Some of the elder ones also have a second career

Oh dear Richard. One has stooped to a new low there I'm afraid

"Is there anything he wont do?" they ponder.

[richard]

Some of the elder ones also have a second career

Oh dear Richard. One has stooped to a new low there I'm afraid

No Kenny or Boris

They make more money on their backs keeping dumb farangs happy in one night than they make in 3 months selling flowers

They are not stupid. They know big bucks when they see them. Big bucks from dumb fkucs means money for the family. Sorry, a bit of Thai logic leaked out there

[GLCQuantum]

Due to previous experience, Richard was able add some valuable information into the discussion about Flower Sellers with...

Some of the elder ones also have a second career

thus enabling anyone who 'wants a go' to be aware that they are 'up for it'.


Shortly after he speaks quite harshly of himself by saying...

They are not stupid. They know big bucks when they see them. Big bucks from dumb fkucs means money for the family.

It's alright chum. Don't put yourself down so much pal.

[richard]

Due to previous experience, Richard was able add some valuable information into the discussion about Flower Sellers with...

Some of the elder ones also have a second career

thus enabling anyone who 'wants a go' to be aware that they are 'up for it'.


Shortly after he speaks quite harshly of himself by saying...

They are not stupid. They know big bucks when they see them. Big bucks from dumb fkucs means money for the family.

It's alright chum. Don't put yourself down so much pal.

Nowt to do with experience as it's common knowledge for those of us who have lived here a while and useful information for those who have not

Leave me out of the GLC playground and

[GLCQuantum]

Nowt to do with experience as it's common knowledge for those of us who have lived here a while

Ahhhh... we just ooze class us Westerners don't we.

'Common knowledge' you say.

That the flower girls are 'up for it'.

[margaretcarnes]

Nowt to do with experience as it's common knowledge for those of us who have lived here a while

Ahhhh... we just ooze class us Westerners don't we.

'Common knowledge' you say.

That the flower girls are 'up for it'.

Maybe not so much 'common knowledge' in HH but certainly in Pattaya - and i'm afraid i've seen the consequencies there first hand one night, when our regular little ' flower seller mite' sought refuge and a bit of TLC in perhaps the only bar at the time where she would find a farang woman to look after her. She was no more than 10 years old.
That said - 'One Arm' in HH runs a business, and given her disability it's probably the only way she could have supported herself when she started out. There was - and still is - a sad lack of State support for people with disabilities in Thailand. There are also many parents who are quite happy to allow their children to be out on the streets selling whatever at all hours.

[GLCQuantum]

Maybe not so much 'common knowledge' in HH but certainly in Pattaya - and i'm afraid i've seen the consequencies there first hand one night, when our regular little ' flower seller mite' sought refuge and a bit of TLC in perhaps the only bar at the time where she would find a farang woman to look after her. She was no more than 10 years old.

In this unfortunate case it certainly doesn't sound like the poor lass was 'up for it'

[KateB]

Does anyone know anything more about the kids - such as, are they local, do they actually have/live with their families, do they get to keep any of the money? I'm assuming they don't go to school? I've asked a few people but have been given various different answers.

It is of no practical help at all to them but I really do worry sometimes when I see them....at least they do seem to go about in groups which is something (and there's the little lad with one eye who really tugs at my heart strings).

[H2ODunc]

A few phoney monks too, collecting money around the bars, this is a de-robe-able offense that they will get knicked for.

Kendo.

If the monks are fake then how can they be de robed ?
I never bought the flowers but either bought some sweets from the 7/11 to give them or bought them some street food to eat.

[richard]

I never bought the flowers but either bought some sweets from the 7/11 to give them or bought them some street food to eat.

Used to do the same to the 'spare a bit of change' spongers in the UK. Parked on a corner with a dog (get an allowance for that). Used to give them some dog biscuits