PART 9: VALERIE
January 2020, Melbourne
Last night at work was pretty shit, even for a Thursday. But at the end I got really, really lucky. Which normally tends to happen. You know, you have to really just wait it out until close on those quiet nights because that’s normally when the treasure comes in.
Yeah, I met a really cool man that spent so much money on me and we had so much fun together. I was kinda of contemplating going home because I had been there since open, and I was wearing an old pair of pleasers which I forgot hurt more than my new pair. So, I really just wasn’t in the mood.
But I was hanging at the bar drinking some water when I turned around and noticed a man handing over cash for his drink. So, I thought you know I kinda ummed and ahhed and thought ‘well what else am I doing, I can either talk to him or I can sit here drinking my water like a loser’. So, I went over and said hello and picked up that he was South African which he was surprised I could tell. I just love South African accents.
He offered me a drink and a shot which we both did, then the bar lady handed over $100 in tipping dollars which I had never seen anyone buy before. You know they’re either like getting $10 worth or $5 worth or something. We got some more drinks and chatted, and he asked if I would be on stage soon, and I said I had just been on about 20 minutes ago so I’m won’t be on for a little while. I looked over to the stage and then back at the wad in his hand and was like ‘well if you like the dancer on stage we can have a lot of fun with those tipping dollars’.
At this point, you know, I didn’t wanna hustle hard, I just wanted to have some fun. Kinda like ease into it, you know, like don’t come on really aggressively, that I’ve seen a lot of girls do. We went over to see the girl on stage and he wasn’t too fond of her, and then he was like ‘so how about we go for a dance’, and I was like ‘yessss’.
On a quiet night, when you’re trying to take it easy and someone says that to you it’s like music to your ears. It’s so amazing. The man, he has a name but I’ll call him G, he gave me a heap of cash, and I set my timer for an hour, adding on a little bit longer because he was lovely and offered me a drink, and also bought up the dance first. I showed him my timer and told him I added on an extra few minutes because he seemed fun. And then yeah we ended up spending until close together.
So we did heaps of lap dances, then we took breaks and saw the girl on stage and covered the stage in tipping dollars, and I got a little dance and he got a little dance. And then I went and changed my outfit to spice things up, we got shots, we got more shots, after that, we got more drinks, and then I had to go on stage and was pretty drunk. He absolutely covered the stage in tipping dollars which is a lot of fun, much to the envy of the other girls who were having a quiet night still.
Sometimes I do feel for them and hoped I could invite them all to play with this exciting man and his money, but most dancers know your night will come soon, you know, it always does. It always just comes back around and you’re the one everyone’s envious of. Hopefully it’s busy for them tonight.
At the moment I’m just basking in my hangover, trying to recover and then I’ll be back tonight for Friday. So yeah, it’s been a really good start to the working week. Maybe G will come back tonight, I’m not too sure. We exchanged instagrams which I use, or email, like a dancer email I started just to stay in contact with regulars because for a while there I used to give them my phone number but it just gets really annoying, and I feel its a bit too personal. Maybe if I had a work phone with a work number it would be fine obviously. But yeah, email and IG work best.
So yeah, hopefully tonight is good as well!