Maiyuu worked for a husband and wife couple who ran a small company in Silom. I will call them Set and Match.
Working closely with a certain European embassy, they provided a translation service.
The embassy would hand visitors forms, such as applications for a tourist visa or marriage licence, and tell them to go over the road to get them translated, at the company where Maiyuu worked.
Often, it was a foreign male, accompanied by a Thai girl he had just met in Esan. He went to his embassy to get visa permission to take her back home.
After they had obtained their translation and paid for it over there, staff from the company would take visitors back to the embassy.
The regular contact which this firm enjoyed with the embassy set this company apart from the shady operators who purport to act as agents for embassies, but really do not.
They offer to process visa applications for tourists, and guarantee to get them approved.
The existence of these companies spreads by word of mouth among young women, particularly in the poor Northeast.
The firms do not dare advertise that they are accredited to an embassy, because they would be caught.
Set, the male owner of the company for which Maiyuu worked, had to return to Europe regularly, to keep his accreditation intact.
He was half Thai and half European. Raised in that European country as a child, he spoke both languages. His wife, Match, as far as I could gather, was just a Thai.
The company made good money. Maiyuu did not make much acting as a messenger and office boy, but Set and Match liked to help their staff in other ways. Ocassionally Match would take the office staff out for meals.
While husband Set was away in Europe, his wife Match hit the town.
She went out at night, kept a retinue of young men, and hired help to raise the couple's young child.
Match could be mercurial, and her behaviour overbearing. She would insist that Maiyuu or his friend, Duck, who also worked at the office, go out at night with her. The couple also insisted the boys accompany them to Pattaya occasionally, where they wanted to open another office.
One day, Maiyuu reached the limit of his patience. He just stopped going in to work.
Set called wanting to know what had happened. He could tell Maiyuu was upset, and coaxed the truth out of him. Maiyuu told him about his wife's philandering ways.
I met Match once, when she joined a card circle at my home. Match brought along a kik (lover on the side), a young man in his early 20s.
However, she kept a whole swag of toyboys, none of which, apparently, were known to her husband - until Maiyuu filled him in.
now, see part 2
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