In Reply to: Funny Thing, These Speedos! posted by Barong Naga on Friday, 16. July 2004 at 20:45 Bali Time:
While staying at Mandira a few years back a friend of ours out there at the same time had promised to visit and one morning he did, strolling from the beach accross the lawns to our breakfast table in one of those old Tanah Lot singlets, bright green, and, yes, the G string. It wasn't so bad once he sat at the table with the table cloth drooping over the worste of it. Mind you I hope they used a different cloth and left handedly wiped the chair when we left for the beach!
We let slip that we were heading up the beach to see our friends and have a massage and he invited himself along. Luckily for me I met my friend Jimmy the watch seller and so strolled along behind better half and the now singletless friend. We pretty much lost the plot it was such a sight to behold. Anyway we reached our spot and I moved a little distance away for my massage.(even after what he'd shared with me I didn't want to share my massage with him although I am a master of the discreet use of a folded sarong!)
After settling into the massage Nyoman said quietly "Will Brian be having the same boyfriend next year?" Well the plot was well and truly lost by both of us and neither of us could function as massager or massagee.
It's gone down in the annals (sp.?) of years of shared jokes with this group and us, mostly about Brians attempts at Bahasa Indonesia. Like calling Jimmy's wife beautiful and cheap. Then there was the time Nyoman an elderly lady who has massaged on the beach for ever asked him if he was sleeping with her today confusing the English word for sleep with the one for lie down (as in not just head and shoulder massage) The rest of the group particularly like this and never fail to remind us every year "Sleeping with Ibu Nyoman today?" Then one day the same Nyoman was having a nap when the tide came in. We never forget to ask "Remember when Ibu Nyoman went swimming" much to the mirth of the whole group. Actually while writing this I've just realised most of the jokes are at Brian's expense, good job he has broad shoulders! Like this gem "massage susu today Brian or maybe they are sakit, datang bulan Ya?"
I coould go on for ever but I'll spare you because I'm sure you've all got your own list.