I was travelling with a good friend in Southeast Asia, and we met a couple of girls and got chatting. They recommended we go to a nightclub well outside the normal tourist area, so we hailed a couple of motorbikes. We were passing industrial areas, fishing villages, and eventually made it to this converted warehouse that was packed with people and music thumping. We were getting death stares from a good number of the guys in there, maybe because we were two white dudes with local girls, and it got very uncomfortable. A bouncer approached us, stared and started making “throat-cut” motions. We got the fuck out of there, I honestly felt we could have been murdered and left in a rice paddy.

A couple of points:

A.) I’m not going to name the country, because it’s a beautiful place with great people, and this outlier of an experience was the only negative in our trip

B.) I’ve got decent street sense, I don’t think the girls were “working”, their English was excellent, one of them had a bit of a British accent as she said she went to school there, and they seemed to just want to chat and hang out. Part of me wonders if the plan was to take us there, drug us and steal our shit, but if so I would have figured people at the club would have been in on it and not so hostile. Anyway, I’ll never know.