About five years ago, my financial situation was not the best and accordingly I could not afford a lot of dances. There was a dancer who spent a fair bit of time with me everytime i visited my fav club and we chatted and had a couple of drinks. On the rare occasion, I had some spare cash I would have a dance with her. She was in a steady relationship and well familiar that I had no cash. We often chatted during slow times if I was around and later we worked a schedule to catch up in traditionally slow times or days each week. Then we lost touch and both moved on.
Recently I bumped into her at a different venue whilst travelling interstate and it was wonderful to catch up. She was in another steady relationship but two things had changed, the first (perhaps an incorrect assumption) that she now made a lot less based on our conversations and secondly my financial situation had improved. So I tipped her about $100 - $200 for her time and did this during each subsequent time I visited the club which was about once a fortnight and we caught up for about half an hour to an hour. We went for a dance each time as well and I paid the going rate for the dance over and above this as you would expect. The usual cue for me to leave being that she had to either go on stage or hustle and then I would leave.
Perhaps this may have created a new beast as I have recently been encouraged by her to meet OTC for a non sexual date and to pay for her time to be there. This is of no interest to me, for dry and boring as I may be, I have no interest in paying for company in the real world. Secondly both my attention span and finances would probably be stretched if this was a four - six hour outing rather than the half hour to hour chat. Accordingly to this date I have politely deffered.
Dropping in and paying for time in a club while interstate is not such a bad entertainment option to me as usually i rarely have more than an hour to spare and hence my question "What would you expect to be tipped if you had a drink with someone you chatted with for about half an hour or an hour during slow(er) times of the week?"



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