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I'm new to coming to Thailand and experiencing the Bangkok bar scene. My first trip was a few months ago and it was a bit rocky - a few duds but I managed to click with a Lao boy from a bar in Silom. For the record, this is a straight guy. He's not the star of his bar - has a decent slim body and average looks but he made up for it by being enthusiastic with a good attitude while the more gorgeous boys were acting stuck up and aloof. We did short time then dinner and exchanged social media details but I left Thailand the next day. Back at home, we would be in contact semi-regularly and we did some video chatting about when I was coming back. During one of our calls, he brought up me paying him 5,000 baht a day to spend time with me. I expressed that 5K a day was an exorbitant amount but that we should wait to discuss it more in person to which he agreed. He never explicitly asked me to send money in my months away from Thailand but always sent messages or posted statuses complaining about there not being customers, having to eat mama noodles every day, working night after night with no financial windfall, etc. but is always posting pictures and videos out with his buds drinking, clubbing or at karaoke. So fast forward to this week, I'm in Bangkok. He meets me at my hotel, we go out for a meal, come back and have a fun night but come the morning he brings up the sordid topic of coin again. I'm here for a month, the bar fine is 500 baht per day which comes out to 15k baht and he lowered his fee to 4k baht a day. I counter-offered to pay him 2.5K a day, plus covering all his daily expenses. I should also mention that his birthday is going to fall on a day while I'm in country (confirmed true by his ID card) and he's already asked me what I'm going to get him as a present. This changed the mood and he got pouty. I tried explaining that I'm here for 30 days and that this is a guaranteed 75k (on top of me paying for everything plus his bday gift) instead of having to stand on his feet all night praying for a customer during low season but he insisted on 4k. He said he was leaving and asked me to pay him 5,000 baht. There's no way in heck I actually owed him that much for one night but I just forked it over to avoid problems. I walked him downstairs and while we were outside, he said he was hungry and I offered to treat him to food again. After eating we passed a barbershop and he wanted to get a haircut so I gave him money for that, too, while I sat and waited for him. He then wants to rest back my hotel because he was tired and upon arriving to my room, he flops on the couch fully dressed facing away from me and starts to watch tik tok videos on his phone and then falls asleep. I suppose this is because he lives in a hovel of an apartment with no AC so staying with me is better than going back there. He stays like that for hours while I do work on my laptop until he gets up to go back to his apartment and so he can go back to work at the bar. He holds out his hand and asks for taxi money, which I did not give. I made up an excuse about how I needed to hit the ATM and I'd reimburse him later. After he leaves in a huff, I'm left scratching my head with a bad taste in my mouth after my first day back in Thailand. Any advice from more learned forum members? Was I being a cheapskate? He has a few friends at the bar who live in his same building so it could be a losing face/competition thing among them but don't know for sure.