We didn't plan it -- but it turned out to be one of the most interesting weeks in our lives...
My parents are divorced and my father lives in Singapore working for one of the major investment banks. A couple of years ago after I had just finished the summer term at college, me and a couple of friends planned to stop in Singapore for a break on the way back from Australia where we had been doing summer barwork jobs in Cairns.
Typically, the week before we got there he emailed me to inform us that we would meet at the airport. Fine, but as we landed, he would be checking in for a flight to New York, then on to Zurich and wouldn't be back for the rest of the week. Disappointing but not unexpected. I had grown up to learn that his job involved frequent global travel. Despite that, a week in Singapore was no hardship. My father had a beautiful apartment, so we wouldn't be slumming it. The downside was that Suzie, his new wife would be there, so we couldn't let rip as we would have liked. When he remarried a couple of years ago, none of us could understand why he chose someone like her. Perhaps 15 years younger than him, Early 30's and slightly overweight and not the brightest bulb in the light factory... Totally different from my mother who was immensely successful in her own right, a professor of ancient history and sharp -- physically and mentally. But of course, that is why my father wanted Suzie. Someone undemanding, and cuddly.
Anyway, Jon Chris and I flew into Changi, met my father long enough to give him a hug and cadge some spending money from him (students are always broke, even after we have been working) and then headed into town to dump our things in the apartment before we headed out for the evening. I guess Suzie knew, or suspected, how we felt about her because she was immediately on the defensive telling us the house rules and generally behaving as though she was the one responsible for them leading a successful life rather than my father. Whatever... Anyway, she calmed down a bit as basically it was water off a ducks back, and after we had dinner and a couple of bottles of wine she got a bit more mellow even offering to come out clubbing with us and buy the first couple of rounds of drinks. Well, why not. Again, students never knowingly refuse a free drink and as Jon and Chris were playing the polite houseguests and chatting with her it didn't really make any difference to me.
We went to Orchard Towers, the bar and night club building better known as 'Four floors of whores' The night club was full and we took it in turns to keep Suzie company whilst the other two would go on the prowl looking for any likely girls. We were bronzed and fit from our time in Aus, and had no problems having a chat and flirting with the local girls... although they were mercenary, and drinks in that place weren't cheap (no where in Singapore is) so we ended up back with Suzie, especially as she was running a tab. I hadn't realised how much time had gone by, but by now it was already 1am. And Suzie was definitely swaying, and slurring her words. Since we had been on the prowl we hadn't been drinking all the time, whereas Suzie had stayed at the table and had a constant supply of vodka cranberries which she was putting away at a rate. Chris of course noticed first, and the dog that he is offered to take Suzie out on to the dance floor. It was quite funny watching her and Chris as she got into it and it gave us a laugh to watch her tits bounce around. Suzie is actually not bad looking. A bit oversweight as I said, but pretty face and long black hair which she let down as she danced. She was wearing a simple black dress with a large V to display her cleavage. Jon then played his part, and when he went to get the next round of drinks he tipped me the wink that Suzie's was a quadruple measure of vodka with just enough cranberry to give it some colour. When she came back sweating from the dance floor, John handed her the drink but at the same time pulling her by the hand to have another dance with him. She took the drink and downed it, not appearing to notice it was practically neat spirit. She soon looked totally gone on the dance floor, and a couple of times Jon had to grab her as she threatened to fall over backwards. If it worked once, it would work again.... So next time she came back to the table, she got another vodka special, and another dance.... That was about as much as she could take though, and this time when she came back to the table we figured we had better call it a night otherwise we would be carrying my stepmother back home. As it was she was hardly able to walk and her eyes were unfocussed. We got her back home, but as soon as she walked through the door she slipped and fell and couldn't even stand up.
