My then-boyfriend, my best friend and I went to a local strip club. Though the boyfriend is a super sweetheart who caries spiders outside rather than squash them, he's a very frightening looking guy, a character actor who routinely plays bad guys like thugs, rapists and child molesters. Amusingly enough, when he shaves and covers up his under eye circles he also gets called on to play superheroes. This particular day he hadn't done any of the latter and had shaved his head for a part.
Best friend and I were sitting at the rail, tipping the dancers and boyfriend decided he wanted to surprise us by getting us a few dances. He walked over to a dancer. I'm certain that he used his typical shy, soft greeting, "Excuse me hon?"
He came back a little later, looking all discouraged and sad. We asked what was up. He said that she'd told him that dances ranged in price between 80$ and 160$ per dance, depending on what he wanted. He'd told her he just wanted a dance. She said it'd be 80$ for one song.
I went for YEARS thinking that dances in my area were simply expensive until I became friends with a dancer. I told her I'd like to come visit her at work but I couldn't afford a dance.
"You can't afford 20$?"
She said that dances here are basically the same cost they are everywhere and that was when I realized that the dancer we'd seen so many years ago had inflated the price because she didn't want to dance for my scary boyfriend!
Anyway, just thought that was funny and wanted to share.




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