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A much clearer head today, we had booked here for two nights but they only charged us for one so I think they miss heard us. This was good news as we wanted to stay at Coral Bungalows where we had frequented the day before, so we checked out and set of on the twenty minute walk to Coral Bungalows backpacks in tow, we enquired the previous day and they confirmed they had vacancies if we got here early enough and as it was out of peak times (not full or half moon) the rooms were down from a thousand Baht to three hundred Baht (six quid), we checked in for two nights and as there was a saving made on the room we for the first time on the trip decided to get our washing done (we had hand washed, I mean in a machine), we went for the express service wash, I half expected to see Dot Cotton and Heather Trot do the washing instead there was a helpful Thai lady. We then as the day before hit the pool, it hadn't warmed up yet and the pool felt cold, we went into the bar for some scran and it tipped it down with rain, when I say tipped it down it was incredible, I think if you stood out in it you could have drowned and each time I thought it was as raining as hard as it could it went for it a little bit more. We sat there a while and it lasted about twenty minutes and then you could see the sky parting and the sun reassuring us it was o.k to return to our sun loungers, I had rented a book from reception as Sarah had (I never ever read a book!). I got a book from the author of Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh) a book called Ecstasy, we sat out and I read it, it was made up of three books each short stories, was very clever and I enjoyed the way it was written. We then chilled out and geared up for the pool party a widely advertised event and we were led to believe very busy, we had a few beers round the pool (no mean feet at 6.4%) and then went for some tea in the bar, we ordered a familiar combo of spring rolls and Pad Thai however this time I had a Macaroni Bolognease. We sat there drinking and putting the world to rights when our spring rolls came out, we had no sooner tucked into them when a shirtless yank sat himself down beside us, he was clearly off his t*** and could hardly string a sentence together, 'those look tasty spring rolls!' my response was a little short but he was getting on my wick 'yes they are and you're not having any you p**** he said 'I don't want any' 'good, now if you wouldn't mind' nodding in the direction away from our table, he patted me on my back which made my eyes closed in a wound up way and moved to the couple next to us, they were a little more chatty than Rick Johnson - Chatty Man, but through his messed up vision he must have sensed he was not welcome there either. Our main course had come out by now and as he stood up he put out an out stretched arm as if to take a handful of Sarah's dinner, Sarah said to me she was going to stab him in his eye with her chop sticks, this was an outburst not usual from the usual princess. He climbed over the railings to the pool area a few minutes later returning over the barrier next to Sarah, I moved my beer to the other side of the table as I expected him to try and get his hand in Sarah's dinner and was fully prepared to launch at him, thankfully he walked on and didn't make eye contact with me (don't get me wrong I have been the drunkest pest in the room many times, but this yankee prat was something else). We went back to the room as it was now about eight o'clock and had a shower again. We wanted to check things back home and see if Jess had had Niamh yet, we bought a wireless card from the internet bit about twenty yards from our room we took it back and it worked very badly for about two minutes then the connection failed, we took it back to the very unhelpful lady behind the desk and said in a very friendly manner 'we bought this a minute ago please can we exchange it for use on the computes in here as the wireless doesn't work?' 'no' was the response, 'why?' I asked, ' other people use no problem, no refund' (I was getting angry again!) 'I don't care about what other people have done, I have paid for something that doesn't work' 'no refund'. She said sit down for five minutes, the phone rang and Sarah went and spoke to a Thai bloke who advised that we need an engineer sending out as our laptop was broken. I had had enough and just said 'fine we will pay extra to use one in here', 'which computer you at' she said 'computer 3' we said politely 'NO COMPUTER NOT FREE, you must pay extra you computer broke' bloody hell chill out Sarah and I said to each other 'no we are on computer 3' putting up three fingers (one more than I wanted to the miserable wench), we had thirty minutes online and I chucked the money at her and we left. The engineer had asked Sarah if she had tried switching the computer on and off on the phone, Sarah of course said yes I have tried that. When we did get back to the room we did try switching it on and off and the bloody thing only bloody well worked! It got to about ten thirty PM and we discussed how old we felt and if we should go to the pool party, but we did have a couple of free drinks tokens that they hand out on arrival and decided it would be mental to not go and sup free peeve, I think the few beers in the sun in the afternoon had sent us sleepy. We got on our dancing shoes and walked the thirty yards to the pool, 'two vodka cokes and a large Chang please flower' I said to the barman we sat down and spoke about all the other people in the bar, she's pretty, he dances like a peacock with a poo stuck - that sort of banter. It got to about 12:30 and Sarah was still gulping Vodka so I went back to the bar for more beer and we went outside, there were several lads in the pool and the girls slowly went in for it, there were people jumping in all over the place and I was waiting for someone to land on the others head, there was a good party atmosphere and everyone was having a good time. We called it a night at about 1:00 AM. The party went on until about 4:00 AM and there was a Liverpool game on the tele which we couldn't here from our room but there were about ten Liverpool fans chanting and singing 'we will never walk alone' until about 5:30, the bloke upstairs about wore his willy out as well and his bed was banging on the wall for what seemed an eternity, I said to Sarah 'maybe he is putting a picture up' she was not amused, I banged on the wall several times until it hurt my hand. But no sleep for us.
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Sarah I will never forget the '3, not free' lady for as long as i shall live! We did feel old at that pool party - wernt we the only couple and the only people not in the pool! Very proud of you reading that book whilst you were busy being proud of me for drinking beer!