In Reply to: In 1981 posted by bintangplease on Thursday, 26. January 2006 at 18:54 Bali Time:
3rd trip - still young and dumb...
My friend and I had made our way up to the old Quick Snack Bar on Bemo corner. They used to have the coldest beers in town, San Miguel back in those days, we used to call it the doctor.
So it's steaming hot around 10.30am. We have walked from Melasti street and are parched and figure we needed something cold before we continue our shopping.
A couple of guys from Africa are also in Quick snack and they strike up a broken conversation with us then sit down at our table. Four hours later we stumble out of there having given out our hotel details and organized to go to dinner with these guys.
What were we thinking....dohh!!
That night they turned up at our hotel to take us out and we both had second thoughts having sobered up. We said how about we just have a drink somewhere as we werent hungry.
So they have a car and we both look at each other like holy crap!
We thought we would be getting a bemo...
As we drive up Melasti street and turn onto Jalan legian to head towards kuta they turn off into what is now known as Jalan Jelantik.
I know my heart was pounding and could tell my friend was experiencing the same panic...like where the hell are we going??? We had never gone down this detour before and it was dark as hell no lighting back then.
We kept a firm grip on the door handles in case we had to make a quick escape. Eventually we made our way around into Kuta much to our relief and got the guys to take us to Sands night club where we had two drinks then my friend feigned a dose of bali belly and we escaped in the back of a bemo to our hotel.
The guys were bemused and totally harmless but we both said never again would we be so silly...
Thinking back to that and some of the things I have done there since it was all so innocent but the communication between us and them was limited...