Thursday, April 7, 2011

Stripper by Sohodolls.




A song Katie enjoyed by the Soho Dolls. It reminded me of an experience we once had. It is a funny story that represents Katie's humbleness, natural spontaneity, enthusiasm and her ability not to take stereotypical views as truths.

One night we met with some friends for dinner. After the food went missing, everyone decided they wanted to take Katie to her first strip club (female dancers). I was not a fan of this idea, but conceded. We arrived early in the evening. It was clean. We transferred our larger bills for the singles and made our way to the front. I told Katie we should get quarters and "make it hail", Katie rolled her eyes (instead of dollars to "make it rain"- a friend's joke). We sat our drinks on the banister adjacent to the stage.

Katie was extremely impressed with the athletic ability of the dancers. She compared it with Cirque Du Soleil. Katie was out of bills within 3 songs, she used mine. During one of the dance numbers, a dancer's foot was misplaced and knocked a drink from the banister. It landed on it's bottom so that the liquid remained in the shape of the glass and shot directly toward our faces. The majority of the liquid missed Katie and I did not want to let the floors get wet, so I took one for the team (not exactly). It took five to ten minutes to clean our faces and the floors. Our dollars were gone.

One of the dancers let Katie borrow some of her eye-makeup because of the spill. Katie was so thankful and kept telling the young lady how beautiful and athletic she was. I was gathering our jackets when I arrived to the conversation. The dancer was thanking Katie and turned to me to say how beautiful and funny my girlfriend was. I was thankful but made it clear that she already had a job. The dancer laughed, Katie did not hear me.

Katie was always ready to try new things. I have never been a fan of strip clubs, they sort of disgust me; but when Katie mentioned how it reminded her of the Cirque Du Soleil, it briefly changed what I thought of the venue. Then it changed my thoughts on Cirque Du Soleil.

(smile)

2 comments:

  1. I can totally see her saying the part about "athletic ability" and "cirque de soleil". Great story! I would like to hear more :)

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