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Re: Trippin in St Pete
« Reply #350 on: April 18, 2007, 02:00:05 PM »
Thank you Dan & Bruno.
Dan I would also suggest you talk to Jet he has excellent insight on this.
Please see what you can do about protecting our family photos that we post?
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Re: Trippin in St Pete
« Reply #351 on: April 18, 2007, 05:49:35 PM »
Bill,
  was just catching up here and got to thinking. It may be time to cheer up. You know the saying "good guys finish last". Well , now you be the bad guy. They always got the cutest chicks and of course women can't help themselves and will want to spend all the time they can trying to change you and make you respectable. All that holds true in the FSU too. Ok, I know this appears to be a serious situation, but all the hype has only led to more infamy for you. I think when the thread dies here, it dies there.

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Re: Trippin in St Pete
« Reply #352 on: April 18, 2007, 06:23:55 PM »
Bill,
  was just catching up here and got to thinking. It may be time to cheer up. You know the saying "good guys finish last". Well , now you be the bad guy. They always got the cutest chicks and of course women can't help themselves and will want to spend all the time they can trying to change you and make you respectable. All that holds true in the FSU too. Ok, I know this appears to be a serious situation, but all the hype has only led to more infamy for you. I think when the thread dies here, it dies there.

Hey thanks,

I have stopped worrying about them and stopped arguing with them.

take care,

Bill
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FSUW don't do vague
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If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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My first trip to the FSU was to Odessa
« Reply #353 on: April 13, 2015, 01:53:59 PM »
Some years ago (9 or 10), I was recently divorced and had always seen these
advertisements in my email about HOT Russian women who would marry a guy
and they would live happily ever after !!!

So I decided to research the subject and after quite a bit of eye popping photos I
found a long forgotten forum. I started reading and reading and reading. I learned
quite a bit (I thought) and read all kinds of trip reports about how all these guys
would go off and horribly fail or find true love or something in between.

I figured that I could do as well as those guys and back then the long forgotten
forum had these advertisements on the side and I figured if they advertised there
then they must be good. (WRONG)

So I signed up for Elenas Models, A Pretty Woman and Russian Love Match (RLM). 
I got a couple digital photos, slapped together a profile and I was off and running.
I put together an introduction letter and wrote a bunch of hotties. I also received
letters from a bunch as well.

That's when I learned about video chat on RLM. I started chatting with several girls
and after some sifting I decided to visit Odessa and meet a 28 year old single parent
named Natalia.

Stirlitz was a regular poster at a long forgotten forum and I had heard good things
about him so I hired him to be my guide. I had traveled to Western Europe, England
and several times to Italy but this would be my first trip behind the Iron Curtain.



Natalia didn't know English and Stirlitz would translate, arrange transportation, a cell
phone, apartment etc.

It was a miserable trip. I forget all the details, I flew first to Amsterdam
(I think) then on to Kiev. On the plane they give you a little scrap of paper
which looks like newspaper which you fill out the exact same information at
the top and at the bottom.

When I arrived in Kiev I walked up to passport control and gave them my
passport and the little scrap of paper and then the man asked me where I
was staying. I didn't know so I said "I don't know"

He told me to go back to America and come back when I know where I am
staying.  :rolleyes2:

FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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« Reply #354 on: April 13, 2015, 01:55:30 PM »
I made arrangements but I didn't know that I would have to tell
anyone about them, nobody ever asked me that before.  I had Stirlitz to pick
me up when I arrive in Odessa and take me there so why would I need to know?   

Lesson One: carry the address where you are staying with you

So I used one of my standard tactics that rarely fails. I did my Big Dumb American
impression and just stood there looking dumb and not saying a word. If I can't out
smart them I can always out dumb them and after a seemingly long time. The guy
got disgusted and bam bam bam my passport was stamped. He cut the little scrap
of newpaper in half and gave me half of it.

Lesson Two: DON"T LOSE that little scrap of paper !!!!!

I got off the plane and met Pavel. He was a friendly face and gathered up me and my
belongings and had my ticket from Kiev to Odessa (and back). I had a few hour layover
so he took me to a little restaurant and I ate a bowl of bright red borscht with a lump of
white sour cream in the middle of it. I had never tried borscht frankly it didn't sound all
that appetizing to me, but when in Rome .... ... .. .  I Loved it !!! I LOVED IT !!

The international terminal is different than the domestic terminal. you go out of a door
and down some stairs and it's around the corner. Pavel got me in the right line and he
left for parts unknown.  I remember getting into a plane that Amelia Earhart wouldn't
fly because it was too old. The cabin lights sometimes went out, very strange sounds
would just happen and the seats were made for midgets.

The idiot in front of me was drunk and was so animated in his talking and
arm waving bouncing all over the place causing the seat to dig into my legs.
Not wanting to be an ugly American, I just grinned and finally we arrived
without crashing everyone except me clapped and cheered the pilots bravery
and we deplaned.

I would have kissed the ground if there were not smelly puddles of stuff on
the ground and I didn't really want to offend anyone especially the guys who 
were carrying automatic weapons and expressions that made me think that
they wouldn't get the joke.
FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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« Reply #355 on: April 13, 2015, 01:57:20 PM »
Alive and on the ground !!!

I gather my bag and find Stirlitz or he finds me rather. Nobody has problems
finding me in a crowded room ever.

So he takes me to a place to exchange some dollars into grivna. Then we meet 
a very cute lady who rents me the apartment. We go to the nearby market and
buy water, toilet paper, food, tea and other various assorted stuff.

Stirlitz hands me a cell phone (he rents them out) and then we go to a gal in a kiosk
and buy a card with minutes on it. He shows me a few tricks on using it and we decide
to meet the next day since I am not meeting Natalia until tomorrow evening. I planned
this so that I could recover from the flight.

I hit the sack and fall asleep like the dead.



Sometime I think 4:00 am local time I wake up. My kidneys are about to burst for some
reason I have to go to the toilet NOW. It is zero light pitch black absolute zero light.

I fumble around and can't find the switch or any switch. I get turned around and start
bumping into things hoping that my bladder will not fail me now. I find eventually find a
light then the toilet no messes were made. I promised myself from that day forward
that I would have a better plan.

I went back to sleep, then awaken suddenly and look around. I can't freaking believe
it. I got on a plane to fly half way around the world to meet a girl !!!
FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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« Reply #356 on: April 13, 2015, 02:01:22 PM »
Apartments in Odessa are different than the USA. A studio apartment is
called a one room apartment. A one bedroom apartment is called a two
room apartment. I rented a "two room" apartment.



I wake up for good. Shower and shave and walk around Odessa.



I get lost relatively easily so I snap a photo or two anytime I take a turn
that way I can thumb through the photos and find my way back. Also
after my experience with passport control I carry my address with me so
that I can ask a stranger how to get back.

A couple weeks before my trip I had ordered Learn Ukrainian by Pimsleur but
was told that everyone speaks Russian in Odessa so I ordered a Russian one 
that had not arrived.

I bought a $10 set of russian CDs that promised I would learn Russian in only a
couple of days  :chuckle:   :laugh:   ;D   :chuckle:   :laugh:   :nod:   :laugh:
I probably did learn 20 words but had not quite yet mastered the entire language
by the time I arrived. I also didn't know how to read Cyrillic either. So I walked
around Odessa with a headset on learning a Russian word here and there.

Lesson three: Learning Russian is hard !!!

FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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« Reply #357 on: April 13, 2015, 02:04:45 PM »


The night finally arrived, I was going to wear a shirt and tie with
a sports coat (I read somewhere that I should) and the lights go
out.

Lesson four: Always have a flashlight in the FSU !!

I found my flashlight and did the last of my getting handsome and
ready preparations with a flashlight.

We go to Max's  which is a restaurant near the Opera house to meet
Natalia and the agency translator. The agency had wanted to provide all
kinds of services, translation, airport pickup, flowers, apartment and other
things but I wanted them out of the picture because I have read repeatedly
that you should get the agency out of the way as soon as possible.

I met her she seemed stiff and nervous. I kissed her cheek and we sat down
and had dinner. Honestly it felt off to me. I have dated enough and as a salesman
I am pretty good at sizing up and judging people (at least I think I am). 

Dinner came and we dropped her off at her apartment I gave her a kiss on the cheek
we made arrangements to meet the next day, then Stirlitz and I left.

FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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« Reply #358 on: April 13, 2015, 02:08:39 PM »
The next day we collect Natalia and her daughter and walk all over Odessa.

Her daughter was 8 years old funny and bouncing around everywhere. She
was an amazing gymnast and as a father of three boys and no girls I fell in
love with the little girl and she seemed to think I was pretty cool too.

The days go by we are getting along great, the conversation is good she
seems interested and interesting. The daughter is fun and I am really enjoying
her. But at the end of the day all I am getting is the cheek.

Note this photo is from 9+ years ago so I don't think anyone will recognize them


Stirlitz wants me to go to another agency and see a few more women to give
me perspective while Natalia is at work. She is working only half days since I am
there to see her.

I half heartedly go to an agency. I look through the girls but I really don't make any
arrangements. I should have but I didn't.
FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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« Reply #359 on: April 13, 2015, 02:09:54 PM »


The days are going by and I have read a hundred times "if a FSUW is into you then
you will know it!" this girl wasn't into me. I kept ignoring Stirlitz and I shouldn't have,
but I did. I had made up a list of things I wanted in a woman and showed them to
Natalia, I forget what they were but sexual passion was on the list.

I went through the other things first, blah blah blah and she agreed that she had those
things and I did too. Then we came upon the passion item, and I said that you are not
this at all. You are as cold as a fish or you don't like me.

She assured me she liked me and that she just didn't hop into bed with every guy that
she meets. 

Everybody should realize that Stirlitz is translating this and I am ignoring him and so is
she. He was a very good invisible translator. OK back to the story.

Me: "hop into bed?" I haven't even got a kiss on the lips.
Her: I have lipstick on you will wreck it?
Me: That's the lousiest excuse I ever heard besides sometimes you
need to wreck your lipstick or are you a cold fish?

Her: I am NOT a cold fish, I am just making sure.
Me: You don't hold hands, or sit next to me or lean against me
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Her: If I decide to .............then you will have your hands full and
won't be able to handle all of me and all I want.
Me: we will see about that.
Her: Yes we will

So off we go to eat lunch and after lunch Natalia informs Stirlitz that
he needs to take the little girl "V" for a walk so that she can F#ck my
eyes out.

more to follow
« Last Edit: April 13, 2015, 02:50:35 PM by 2tallbill »
FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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« Reply #360 on: April 13, 2015, 02:12:30 PM »
Hours later, and nearly blind (eyes having been almost f#cked out)
and Stirlitz calls to see if I was going to come up for air any time soon. I
reluctantly replied that yes I would be coming up for air soon and that I would
call him back.

He had taken "V" to a museum, and to a bookstore to buy a book and
various other places

Natalia and I get dressed and Sterlitz and V arrive and V informs us that she
is putting on a gymnastic show and that we should watch the performance. 

I cut up some cheese, sausage, arranged some crackers along with grapes and
apple wedges poured some juice and we sit down to watch the show.

So "V" does her little gymnastic show, and I try to convince Natalia
to spend the night. She has gone cold and no under no circumstances
will she spend the night and we are back to kisses on the cheek. You
might argue that hey not in front of her daughter, but it was more than
that she was suddenly cold.

So I take her home with plans for the next day. She is to arrive at approximately
3:00 pm.



I have most of the day (my last day because I leave tomorrow) to think about
hot / cold Natalia, there is a internet cafe a 100 meters from my flat and I go
there check email and now I am starting to think that I should have listened to
Stirlitz and maybe meet another woman or two, but I don't.

The weather is drizzling all day, the power goes out, 3:00 pm rolls around and no
Natalia, then 3:30 then 3:45 pm. Sometime after 4:00 she knocks on the door
of the flat I open it and she looks pissed. 

Natalia "are you ready?"
Bill         I don't say anything because I don't understand the question.
So she says again as I am helping her out of her coat
Natalia    "are you ready?" 
Bill            "For What?"

Natalia     "For what you did !!! "
Bill            "What I did?"

Natalia        "first get me hot tea to drink!!"
Bill            rolls eyes and walks into kitchen wondering to self WTF?
                   I put water in the kettle to make tea

Natalia            "It was raining and cold and I had to walk up the stairs in the pitch black"
Stirlitz grumbles " Bill I should have recommended this, a gentleman should walk the
                           girl up the stairs especially when the power is out."   

Natalia         "that's not all !!! " I was in chat at the agency with a guy and he says
                   "blah, blah, blah, blah about you !!!"

I stand up and walk over to Natalia. Honestly I didn't do this to scare her, it just
happens when I jump up and walk over to people quickly. I am a foot taller (31 cm)
and 130 pounds (59KG) heavier (more than double her weight) and her eyes got as
big as saucers and I obviously was scaring her which is not what I wanted to do.

Bill           "sit down"
Natalia      sits
Bill            sits
Bill       "Let me get this straight"
           "You wanted me to stand outside in the rain for over an hour"
           "while you chatted with some other man at the agency?"
           "this guy that I have never met or talked to and blah blah blah?"
Natalia   "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah !!!!
Natalia   "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah !!!!
Natalia   "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah !!!!
Natalia   "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah !!!!
Natalia   "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah !!!!

Bill       I have had enough and I get Natalia's coat
Bill        "Your leaving, Igor (Stirlitz) will take you home"
Natalia  surprised expression               
Stirlitz   "Bill you should walk her home"

So I walk Natalia home with Stirlitz and I go back to my apartment, I am
leaving the next day.
FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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« Reply #361 on: April 13, 2015, 02:14:46 PM »
Stirlitz calls a while later and says that Natalia doesn't want you to leave like
this. She wants to see you again before you go.

Bill         "I don't know, the whole hot cold thing is kind of strange."
Stirlitz    "You have to call her on the phone and ask her to come by at 11:00pm
Bill         " I don't know Russian well enough to do that"
Stirlitz    "You still have to do it, she knows what you are going to ask then she
               will come to your apartment at 11:00pm "

Bill          "Do you really want to be here at 11:00pm?"
Stirlitz     "no, she wants to have sex with you"

[Note to all] I am just a guy. It's 9:00 pm on my last day and a hot woman wants
to have sex with me. I am not a saint or a priest or an oak tree and I had flown
halfway around the world to meet this girl and my head was spinning because all
the blood left my brain and filled the head below my shoulders not above it. Besides
HER POPKA WAS SOOOOOOOOOO CUTE !!!! I admit my brain wasn't working. 

Back to the story
So I called Natalia, and she says some stuff in Russian. She showed up at 11:00 pm on
the dot and she was fun, fun, fun, fun. It wasn't just the sex which was great but we
laughed. I created a game where she would point the flashlight on a body part and if
I said the right word in Russian then I was rewarded with kisses.

I have an ectaco translator, and we sat naked on the bed passing it back and forth
having a great time. Neither of us slept even for a minute.

Stay tuned more to come ...  . .. . .. . . .
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FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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« Reply #362 on: April 13, 2015, 02:17:16 PM »
So, some time around 5:00 am we were rolling around and having fun, Natalia
tells me that she has to go back to her flat, since "V" is there sleeping alone she
tells me several times on the the translator.



WHAT?

I had never considered that she left her daughter alone, what if she woke up scared?
So she calls a taxi, I ride with her the and drop her off and pay for the taxi and ride
back. She has to get V read for school and she has to work for a few hours and will
meet me at noon for lunch, then I will fly to Kiev and spend the night then retrace
my steps back to San Francisco. 

I am really sleepy so I hit the sack for a couple of hours, shower, shave and pack. I
bought a few food items that I didn't use and I gave them to Stirlitz. I had bought a
"real knife" for cutting and cooking and I packed a box of stuff for Natalia. I brought
a couple of gifts like picture books of California and the bay area that we looked
through while I told her anecdotes about them.   

They have two semi famous a chocolate factories in San Francisco. Ghirardelli's and
Sees, so I had given her chocolate.

I meet Natalia again at the place we have lunch every day and cold fish Natalia is back
the fun spunky girl is gone. I am kind of in a daze myself having spent the entire night
in carnal pleasure. It was clouding my brain, I tried to talk to her about the future, but
she was non committal, I convinced her to accept English language lessons that I would
pay for. She wanted me to pay for group lessons through the agency but I wanted her
to have one on one instruction because she had been in group English lessons (paid for
by some other guy) and couldn't speak a word of English.

When it was time to leave, I got the cheek. I was frustrated but made excuses for her
Sybil like personality in my mind. It's easy to justify, maybe she was tired, maybe it's
the culture, blah blah blah. I was definitely putting her on a pedestal that she didn't
belong on and she got there only because she was hot and rolled me well in the hay. 

OK, I never told anyone this including Stirlitz. 

When I was taking Natalia home in the taxi, we were passing the translator back and
forth. She told me she desperately needed $200.00. It was insignificant to me at the
time, I thought we would probably be married some day. It was easy to justify it in my
head, she had taken significant time off work to be with me and this would help her out
so I did it.

I fly back to Kiev, Pavel has an apartment for me. He does the pickup from the airport,
fills me up with another fantastic bowl of borscht, drops me off at the apartment and I
sleep like I am dead........

I wake up to a pounding on the door like the police were coming to get me. It was
Pavel and he had been there for quite a while alternating between the phone and the
door. I answer the phone first in case he is calling to warn me not to open the door. 

He drops me off at the airport, I go through passport control and can't find the little
scrap of newspaper that I had written on 10 days ago  :o  The passport control lady
was friendly right up to the point that I told her I couldn't find it. Then she looked at
me like I had been caught trying to smuggle C-4 and radio controlled timers in my bag.

She looked through my passport, and the scrap of paper was stuck between two
pages and it plopped out on her desk and all was well again as the C-4 turned out
to be caviar that I had bought near the Black Sea.

I fly the grueling trip back to SFO and sleep like I am dead.



I bought tickets to go back to Kiev (the Odessa ticket is bought separately back then)
for Christmas so I can see her again.

I had paid for a month of language instruction and it was time to pay for another month.
That's when Natalia came up with her bold plan. . . . . . . . .
FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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My Odyssey to Odessa many years ago
« Reply #363 on: April 13, 2015, 02:21:43 PM »
Her Bold plan was a creative scam

Natalia came up with a creative way to scam me.

First however, let me tell you the contact between us was strange. She would
write 2 line letters and was totally cold. My pimsleur Russian had arrived and I was
working on it diligently. I was sure that she was chatting with others at RLM and I
was barely part of the mix. I was having more trouble making excuses for her now.
I had told her that I had bought tickets to see her again. She had a million reasons
why I couldn't come. 

Then she came up with the scam.

She had taken nearly a month of language instruction and it was time to pay for more.
She had told Stirlitz that she didn't want to learn English and surely didn't want to meet
me again. However she did want half of the money that I would pay him for her language
instruction. 

If he didn't give her half she would tell me that he never gave her the previous month
of instruction and since she had f#cked me I would be putty and I would believe her
and not him  

I had been ignoring all the red flags and now it bit me in the ass.
I knew something was hinky, I kept making justifications in my head. 
I had a ticket to Kiev leaving in a week or so and nobody to visit. 
FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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Re: Trippin in St Pete
« Reply #364 on: April 13, 2015, 05:25:14 PM »
TooTall

One of the best recollection 8-9 year TRs I have ever read. Ironically enough I read this TR when you posted it on the long ago forgotten forum and remember the flashlight tip. I've probably never been to the FSU without a flashlight as a result. However, I've never used the flashlight that I can remember.  :popcorn: Carry on, this is good stuff and well worth revisiting

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Re: Trippin in St Pete
« Reply #365 on: April 13, 2015, 09:47:20 PM »
I use the flashlight in my cell phone frequently in UA, by necessity.

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Re: My Odyssey to Odessa many years ago
« Reply #366 on: April 13, 2015, 10:39:48 PM »
Natalia came up with a creative way to scam me.
 


Most men would enjoy a scam that begins with mind blowing sex.
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Re: My Odyssey to Odessa many years ago
« Reply #367 on: April 14, 2015, 05:10:16 AM »

Most men would enjoy a scam that begins with mind blowing sex.

This is how the most "expensive" scams, emotional or monetary,  start.  A way to set the hook deep.

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Re: My Odyssey to Odessa many years ago
« Reply #368 on: April 14, 2015, 11:13:34 AM »
This is how the most "expensive" scams, emotional or monetary,  start.  A way to set the hook deep.

Yes, that might have been her plan. She did eventually get married
to an American. God help the poor guy.

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If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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So back at start for the first time in the FSU challenge
« Reply #369 on: April 14, 2015, 12:09:50 PM »
So I was back at square one in the FSUW challenge sweepstakes

I had already purchased tickets to Kiev, for the day after Christmas
so I went anyway on a visit many trip. I arranged dates through
agencies, Stirlitz was my translator but many of the girl spoke
good English so I didn't need him. I paid him by the day for the
entire trip so that he was available anytime I needed him.

I was in a pizza place on New Years eve and saw the cutest little
gal. She was way too young for me, but she had a sparkle in her
eye so I asked her if she would like to spend New Years eve with
me!

She thought that would be a great idea so we had a date. Now it
was time for Stirlitz to scramble to get us into a party and he came
through with flying colors. The party had an Master of Ceremonies
who would do little sketches and announce various entertainment.

We were having a great time, then Stirlitz insisted that I go to the
front of the room to talk to the master of ceremonies. Apparently
it was a call for the unmarried men. They gave us elaborate
instructions in Russian which I didn't understand.

Apparently we were supposed to give a fake strip tease dance for the
crowd. Since they wanted me to go first, it took me a while to get going
and as a result I only got second place in the contest.



Yes, you've seen it here folks 2tallbill in a bonnet and a tutu dancing.

The second prize performance of the annual all male review and dance
competition. We were judge by the applause volume and although the
contest could have been rigged, it did sound like the first place guy
actually got louder applause than I did

I still haven't forgiven Stirlitz for sending me up there to begin with.

The rest of the night was fun, they had a naked girl who did a ballet
routine with a bird and singers and music and dancing. It was pretty
cool, not vulgar at all. They had good food and the little pizza girl
was fun, fun, fun. I had a blast.

more to follow
FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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Re: Trippin in St Pete
« Reply #370 on: April 14, 2015, 03:50:14 PM »
Bill, if your going to give us a great recap of your adventures.
You should have your own thread. Maybe call it,
2TB excellent adventures.:)
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Kiev, where's the chicken?
« Reply #371 on: April 14, 2015, 04:10:50 PM »
Carry on, this is good stuff and well worth revisiting

Thanks, I thought I would try to put all my stuff in the same place.

Bill, if your going to give us a great recap of your adventures.
You should have your own thread. Maybe call it,
2TB excellent adventures.:)

This thread will work fine, I recommended the same name Suggestion
to one of the other guys who was writing a trip report.

« Last Edit: April 14, 2015, 05:01:07 PM by 2tallbill »
FSUW are not for entry level daters
FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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Re: Trippin in St Pete
« Reply #372 on: April 14, 2015, 08:17:01 PM »
Bill privet-
I was just going to add quickly that a mini mag light or LED light has been invaluable on every trip I've taken too. The first night of first trip within a half hour at the hotel the power went out for over an hour.
Other times there are many dark stairwells in the FSU. Unlike the US were we leave the lights on all day/night it can be quite dark there. To the point where you have to check doors sometimes at cafes etc. to know if they are open. Even banks!

Anyway that flashlight makes a good little gift on your last day for somebody.

Thanks
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Re: Trippin in St Pete
« Reply #373 on: April 14, 2015, 08:32:06 PM »
I also always pack a little Surefire.  I've never had to use it but I've heard the stories.

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Re: My Odyssey to Odessa many years ago
« Reply #374 on: April 14, 2015, 08:53:41 PM »

Most men would enjoy a scam that begins with mind blowing sex.

Interesting read but I hope that your wife doesn't see it, 2tallBill.

 

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