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Blinded by the Lite

gk

Florida

Lite beer, of course, actually cheap light beer which is my main drink in clubs with only a rare shot form time to time. Now, I'm not one to complain about drink prices too much. I simply write them off as the cost of having fun and make sure I have enough to handle the tariff wherever I go.

Now to the point; my friends and I have recently cut back our attendance at our formerly favorite club because of the drink hustle. We get good contact dances there and sometiomes more given the right dancer. The dancer drinks are high as you would expect--no complaints, we know how it works.

But the hustle was getting too annoying. They know us, so they gather around us and hound us for drinks and if one of us buys one it's like dropping crumbs for one pidgeon and then having to scare away the entire flock. We know how to say no, that's not the problem. It's the annoyance of the whole game, which they are coerced into playing by management. If I'm one-on-one at the bar, I'll buy a drink or two to help out on a quota, but the gang hustle got to us.

So we've started going to a more glitzy club down the street where I don't particularly like the management, but T&A is T&A, especially when you can find accommodating dancers. We three beer drinkers found $1.50 beers there during the afternoon without the annoyance. I'm not entirely "at home" there, but we're having fun with the hunt in new territory and we've already bagged a few trophies.

So after all this rambling--my question: has anyone else made a major change in club patronage because you were so annoyed by the drink hustle? Was it permanent? If not, how long did your boycott last? And are you happy with you your new club "home."