Lately I've been cutting back on dancing to do other types of jobs...I won't elaborate too much, but I started a few new non-dancing jobs lately that I'm really excited about. (I want to make sure they work out before I tell you guys, and then have to tell you guys that I got let go...that happened to my friend M--k before, so I'm always walking on eggshells with new jobs, until I've been there for some time) Last night was one of the two shifts I worked this week at a small, neighborhood strip club bar. Apparently I was taking too long to collect tips from the customers(I was making small convo and basically trying to show a good clean time), and one of the hotter, bitchier girls at the club scolded me like she was my teacher/parent, and I was a small child!She said in a very bossy tone of voice, "You're on stage, and you're taking too long with customers. You're only supposed to go up to customers once for tips." I told her that I wasn't double-dipping, that I was approaching the customers that looked the most interested first, and then working my way up to the other customers. She scolded that I have to go in a straight line around the bar and then sit in a corner until my next set. (That is not a good way to hustle!) She was NOT the manager or anything, by the way. And she said this in front of a guy who seemed happy to have me approaching him.
So I do my set, dancing to border-line "satanic" metal music so I can unleash my frustration/aggravation through dancing! Afterwards, when I went back to talk to the guy I'd been talking with earlier, he said joking, "Am I allowed to talk to you now? Or, is my talking to you gonna get you yelled at by that girl again?" He also said that she was a "bitch" and that she almost got into a fist fight with him at the strip club last week!Now please understand that it was the end of a very exhausting week for me, I'd worked mad hours b/t several jobs including jobs I value more than dancing, I was tired, I wasn't really taking anything/anyone seriously...so I said really loudly, "NOW EVEN THOUGH MY MOTHER IS DEAD, DOESN'T MEAN THAT SOME GIRL SHOULD TRY TO REPLACE HER AND ACT LIKE MY PARENT." Haha! The bitchy girl's friend(who I lent my make-up to earlier, she seemed fairly cool) said "Excuse me, who are you yelling that about??!" and I glazed things over nicely by saying "Hehe, I was just making an inside joke about politics and George Bush, hehe" in this innocent voice. (I am known to make a lot of political jokes/references at work.) The girl nodded in understandment and went on her way. Then I whispered in the guy's ear, "No, it was NOT an inside joke about politics, you know who I was referring to."
Was this overly bitchy of me? Or, was it deserved? Normally, I would let girls tell me off, then I would complain to my friends after work and feel bad about myself for the rest of the night. But instead, I fought back. Yeah, maybe I wasn't assertive enough to say it to the girl's face, but I'm working on it. My comment was a double-edged sword...it implied that I didn't appreciate a same-age condescending stripper treating me like a little kid, and it also demonstrated that my mother was deceased so that customers would feel sorry for me and thus be more likely to stay on my side!(I've found that people have given me a lot of sympathy when they hear that my mother died recently.) I'm at the point, where I don't give a shit if it starts drama, because I'll just go to my other club, or at least have my non-dancing jobs as back-up! I'm tired of being the nice little stripper who constantly gets her feet stepped on and doesn't step forward. Haha...


She said in a very bossy tone of voice, "You're on stage, and you're taking too long with customers. You're only supposed to go up to customers once for tips." I told her that I wasn't double-dipping, that I was approaching the customers that looked the most interested first, and then working my way up to the other customers. She scolded that I have to go in a straight line around the bar and then sit in a corner until my next set. (That is not a good way to hustle!) She was NOT the manager or anything, by the way. And she said this in front of a guy who seemed happy to have me approaching him.
Now please understand that it was the end of a very exhausting week for me, I'd worked mad hours b/t several jobs including jobs I value more than dancing, I was tired, I wasn't really taking anything/anyone seriously...so I said really loudly, "NOW EVEN THOUGH MY MOTHER IS DEAD, DOESN'T MEAN THAT SOME GIRL SHOULD TRY TO REPLACE HER AND ACT LIKE MY PARENT." Haha! The bitchy girl's friend(who I lent my make-up to earlier, she seemed fairly cool) said "Excuse me, who are you yelling that about??!" and I glazed things over nicely by saying "Hehe, I was just making an inside joke about politics and George Bush, hehe" in this innocent voice. (I am known to make a lot of political jokes/references at work.) The girl nodded in understandment and went on her way. Then I whispered in the guy's ear, "No, it was NOT an inside joke about politics, you know who I was referring to."
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Those Polish boys might see that side of me soon if they pass me on I-95 again and I'm in a mood to race them LOL. I generally do not start trouble with dancers and I am often called the "nicest dancer in the club" by customers and employees alike.

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