Yesterday at work there was a period during the day when there were NO customers. None. My manager was playing backgammon with the bouncer, the cook was tuned in to ESPN on the bigscreen, the DJ was in his own world listening to music on the headphones, and most of the girls were in the dressing room chatting. So I was like "Okay, I'm going to learn some pole tricks. I can't be *that* hard." WRONG. It kicked my ass.
I am strong enough to be able to hoist myself up the thing, so I did that. Our pole goes waaaay up, as it is attached to the second story cieling, so like the little monkey I was pretending to be, I pulled myself all the way up until I could look down on the club from almost the roof. It was cool. Making sure everyone saw I was up there by yelling "Hey guys, look at me!" like some 4 year old yelling to his mother on the jungle gym (hey, I didn't make all that effort for nuthin! ha ha!) I started slowing sliding down in true fireman's fashion. But that was all I could do! I couldn't pull my legs up above my head and forget hanging upside down. I couldn't even get upside down. It was hard! How do you girls that know pole tricks do it? I'd love some advice.
Here I was thinking that it would be as easy as the pro's make it look. Uh uh. I think I'll need about 5 months more training in the gym on upper body strenth before that happens. Oh well. Practice practice practice. I knew I worked ths slow day shifts for something!
~Piper
PS: Oh yeah, two hours later, well before the shift was over, my arms started feeling very heavy. Half and hour after that they felt like they were on fire. My muscles were like what the hell do you think you were doing to us, pulling yourself up to the roof like that?
Today, if it weren't for the 3 Aleeves I took this morning, I think I would have amputated them myself. All this to earn a few more dollars on the stage. Sheesh!



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I remember when I started and I would climb to the top and be proud for a second and then think "now what the hell do I DO?"

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