Dinner cruises, fine dining, cooking classes, cycling tours. Bangkok is brimming with activities marketed for couples, which can make the roughly one-in-three capital residents who are single like myself feel left out.
With the build toward Valentine’s Day’s fussing over flowers, right outfits, and ATK tests before sex, I felt the pressure to frantically slide into DMs and swipe right through my catalog of dating apps.
Instead, I set aside time to see what would happen if I took myself on a date, going undercover as a singleton in this couples-only world to see how it felt – and how I would be received.
For this, I slipped on some pink shades and a flowery shirt to signal I’m ready for a day with me, myself and I.
The most social interaction I had was asking randos to occasionally snap a photo of me for this report.
SNAP SOME BRUNCH
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