I don't know how it started, but I saw how it finished

People watching on Khaosan Road, I sat at a sidewalk bar when I noticed a scuffle between some girls just five meters away. I saw some guys holding two falang girls back who were yelling at somebody in the street. Looking out to the street I saw an angry Thai girl walk right up to the girl and throw a haymaker at her.

Too busy running her mouth, the falang just blinked.

And then the fight was over.

The Thai girl's fist met the falang's face with loud pop. The punch knocked the girl to the sidewalk and the Thai girl strutted away without anything else to say.

I looked around me but no one else noticed the fight. Looking back over to the girls, the guys who were 'breaking up' the fight stood there clueless what to do. The girl got up off the cement, her nose already gushing blood. Her eyes were already red with tears. Then initial shock wore off and she began to sob. And then to hysterically cry.

Her girlfriends got some napkins and surrounded her trying to comfort her and stop her nose bleed. The few people who did notice the punch, then went back to their drinks and their conversation. Men walked up and down the street selling Zippos, women from the north croaked wooden frogs trying to sell handmade trinkets, and the night went on like any other.