Tuesday, March 18, 2008

auto-bio 2

Let's see..other stuff I remember from my first strip club, Nitelife: The deejay used to play Lords of Acid and The Cardigans for me. This was before I accumulated all my own cds and got super-anal about deejays playing songs that I specifically picked out. The deejay was really big and bald, with glasses and an earring or two. He had some kind of silly nickname like Skippy or something , but I don't remember what it was. He was as cocky as most strip club deejays at larger strip clubs, but he was always professional and I don't remember him ever being a dick about anything.
They had a huge dressing room with rows of tall lockers. One of the biggest dressing rooms I've ever changed in, come to think of it. There was also a House Mom, a fixture in most large strip clubs. She was really nice. She told me her name, then said, "but you can just call me Mom." After the liquor ban ended and it got more busy she always had party snack plates with veggies and dip set out on the counter, and an assortment of body spray, makeup, beauty products, shoe grips, etc. in another area. As I mentioned before, she was the one who would safety pin our g-strings to our pantyhose. House Moms are usually thirty- or forty-something ex-strippers.
Also in the dressing room was a space for this couple to bring in these stripper outfits on a rolling wardrobe rack to sell. I never bought any because all my money was being saved to have a place to live again, but I remember one of the items I was interested in was a swimsuit that you could tan through, or so the wife claimed. I haven't seen anything like it since. It wasn't see through, either. Bringing stripper outfits into the club is an ingenious business plan that is actually quite common. When strippers get bored, they like to shop with their sizable amounts of cash and it's quite convenient to do it right there at work. Sometimes they will even custom-tailor outfits for you.
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