I've been wanting to go to 2001 and check it out for the past two weeks, and had been talking with another member about going, and we finally went up tonight.
The first thing that went wrong is when I stopped at the gas station to gas up my car, i put my wallet on the top of my car (wtf?? i never do that), and then drove off with it on there, and lost it. My wallet had 60 dollars, I had just taken 100 out of the bank and used 40 for gas, so 60 dollars.. gone. It had my school IDs, my driver's license, my bank card (which was invalid and demagnetized so it doesn't matter), some sentimental things and discount cards for stores. So... I was pretty pissed about that, but tried not to let it get to me, and tried to think of the positive-- like I can finally get a new driver's license picture, I'm cleaning out excess baggage from my life, and maybe the money went to someone who needed it even more than I did.
I picked up the other dancer and we drove to the club. When we got there the door lady said that they were only hiring one girl, and that girl would be me. I didn't want to freaking just drive home after everything I just went through ( I retraced my driving route TWICE looking for my wallet on the side of the road, went back to the gas station to look for it.... not found, someone just snatched it up as soon as it was lost... and all the gas we used up (over 1/4 a tank to get there), so the other girl and I talked, and decided that I'd audition and she'd just stay in the club and watch, which was really lame and I felt really bad, but i really wanted to audition and see what it was like, so i did it.
The dressing room was pretty big, uneven tiled floor, WAY TOO BRIGHT, lockers on one wall, two sections, a smoking room, and a bathroom with two toilets side by side and no door- you just pee in front of everyone. There were probably 40 girls coming in and out, you have to stay a minimum of four hours and can't come in after 12. The DJ was really nice and played awesome music- the best selection i've heard in a club. The club itself was covered in weird purple/orange blacklight carpeting, with mirrors on every wall and blacklight everywhere, which caused me to walk into mirrors a couple times. I went up on stage to audition, and the stage was awesome. It had three stainless steel (slippery) EXTREMELY spinny poles. I don't understand exactly how you're supposed to get tips if there's three girls on the stage though, I didn't have a garter so I just put the money on the ground, but I guess the other girls just wear garters and these weird armbags?? They were all wearing arm bags. it was weird. I don't know what else to call them. I danced three songs, got topless the first, nude the second... just because I was wearing a long skirt/top and just wanted to get naked. I made 11 dollars in tips. The guys expected to be able to touch you on stage, they held out dollars and i didn't know what to do, I guess the guy puts it in his teeth and the girls squish their boobs around his head to get it. I'm not doing that for a dollar.
After I got off, the manager, a retired dancer, gave me and the three other girls she hired that night (she lied) a tour of the club. The prices were confusing, the regular dances are 25/1 song. The "champagne room" is 400 for half an hour, you keep 325, and the space ship is 15 minutes for 120, you keep 80, or half an hour for 240, you keep 180... i think. I dont remember. I would think that the spaceship would be more expensive than the champagne room though because it's so advertised and famous or whatever... guess not. The regular dance room was pretty much a room with an aisle down it and mirrored booths on either side, i think there were 12 of them. The champagne rooms were big rooms with wide benches wide enough to lay down on and a partial curtain. In the champagne room she said you could straddle- no feet on floor and the guy can take his shirt off- ew. The spaceship was really cool, although very difficult to walk up two flights of carpeted extremely steep stairs in 8 inch heels. It was a circular room with 8 or so rooms with benches smaller than the champagne room, but bigger than the dance room, and full curtains. I saw a dance going on in there that consisted of the guy reclining and the girl laying on him naked grinding her crotch against his with one foot on the floor. really.... close and gross.
I felt bad for making the other girl wait, so i got dressed and we left at 12, after pretty much just auditioning and getting the tour. There weren't many customers, and the ones that were there were getting hustled hard. The girls seemed to just go up to the guys, sit in their laps, straddle them, do a little dance for them for free... really up in their face. We left at 12:15 and i dropped her off at 1:30ish... and i got home at 2ish.... and i have to work in 7 hours. ugh.
So yeah... I auditioned. I might go to work Friday night or Saturday night and see how it is, but if I don't make any money, I might just hold off on dancing completely until I move. I'm just having really bad luck, and i hate having to hide stuff from my parents. I think it was a bad sign starting off that I lost my wallet.

