My night started off horribly, before I even arrived to work!
Fridays are supposed to be fun nights! I work a few week nights, to look forward to weekends and the many random customers. Dancing is always better when people are paying attention, literally and figuratively.
I fell asleep around five in the late afternoon and slept through my alarms! So of course I woke up in panic mode, my heart jumping out of my chest. I have always been one prone to panic and be high strung/up tight. A curse, but blessing in disguise occasionally.
I arrived at work and there were twenty some odd girls working on a Friday night, in a college town during dead week. Most of the customers sat back at the tables admiring us from afar. It was going to be a rough night. Talking to people was the key, based on the tough crowd. Who were probably holding out for Tomorrow, St, Patrick's Day/night.
One girl was so frustrated tonight she quit.That made my heart race again. Probably, because I have been that girl, angry about my job and can relate to what it feels like not to feel appreciated at work. Nothing is worst then an angry stripper after a couple drinks. I am guilty of this too(more times then then I would like to ever admit)! It is merely an occupational hazard! We just cannot help ourselves sometimes.
Dancers/Strippers put up with more negative energy, then positive energy nowadays. Which is extremely hard to cope with. Especially, when you are just trying to pay your bills on time! Let alone obtain something for the future, because we do bare our bodies to the world and have a small career window. Not many people go around town being pictured naked constantly, because of their job. Simply their livelihood.
Beauty is a blessing and a curse most people will never understand. Even some of the most beautiful girls! Often the girls with the most beauty, inside and out, have the most difficult time in the strip club industry/injury. Realizing as an individual that you are irreplaceable is a extremely difficult lesson. Imagine trying to learn this lesson when you know you are replaceable. Because some customers and some clubs, both, do let you know just how replaceable you are. Just another naked body.
The general person believes being a stripper is easy. I would love to see them try and wear my heels for just one night!
If they only knew! I wonder how different things would be?
~Zi-Fi
"All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed,
Second it is violently opposed, Third it is accepted as being
self-evident." Arthur
Schopenhauer, German philosopher, (1788-1860)
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