The price of love?

My gender is an arse.  I’ve known it for years.  Did you know that British men have been getting duped into thinking that they have fallen in love with some exotic bird from Thailand for years now?  It could happen to your father or to you.  These men are usually in their golden years, old enough to know better and either listening to their penis's or are stupid romantics!  Maybe even both.

Regardless of how much evidence you can produce telling stories of like minded gents that have fallen victim to parting with their life savings, they are adamant that their love is the one that’s real.  "Dachanne really loves me", I heard recently.

You know there are websites now with pages that you can browse through to choose your submitting angel?  One who will love you, tie your shoe laces, fuss over you, cook, clean and blow you at your command.  The character Ting Tong from Little Britain isn't so far off of the mark?

You can spot these lambs to the slaughter most days walking up and down aisle’s of Lidl's with their Thai pet walking obediently behind them.  More often than not they end up getting fleeced, left sad, pathetic and a lot poorer.  I know this because my father handed over my inheritance to one.  £750,000 plus.

My mother, his wife of over 45 years, was the woman he wanted back in his life, right up too the day he died.  He rang my mother from his death bed whispering his love, while the Thai lady sat downstairs watching TV, oblivious of his physical pain and the mental anguish.

My mother?  Well, she got nothing. The Thai woman ended up with it all.  My father’s assets, that he had worked hard for all his life, and our family home, the one we grew up in.   Soon after my father died she sold up and went back to Thailand to distribute her wealth to her family.  So my dad let us all down.  My mum, my sisters and me... because of his dick.  My father’s legacy, ladies and gentlemen.

When I tell this story to women they are only too quick to comment on the stupidity of the mere mortal man.  You would think that the smarter gender would not be as gullible, wouldn’t you?  Just as it seems that it’s part of some Thai women’s culture to trap an Englishman, there are Gambian men out there trying to lure our weaker sex to a similar fate.

I have been checking online this morning for stories of women who have blindly followed a similar path.  Just put ‘Women conned by Gambian men’ into Google and see what comes up.  Stories of Gambian men and their wonderful manners and attention to ‘her needs’.  These men prey on the female equivalent.  The unloved, vulnerable and the starved of attention.

“Gambian men are true gentlemen”, I heard recently.  He is 28 years old and she is in her 70’s.  Yes, this time it’s my mother who has been flattered by the toilet attendant at Sainsbury’s.  She met him 3 weeks ago and he’s already asked her to marry him twice.  She’s thinking about it.