How to carry your money
Columbo
Atlanta
How do you carry your money when in the SC? Do you simply pull it out of your wallet as needed? Keep it in a roll or on a money clip?
Also, do you make a point of displaying money, such as having a wad of bills or having a $100 bill on top?
Also, do you make a point of displaying money, such as having a wad of bills or having a $100 bill on top?
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As for a "roll", no. Dancers will know, but need to show to some scum that may be watching. I don't need the grief of blasting some ass that try's to rob me!
Early into the game I learned about the dangers of carrying a credit card into a SC !!
In a back pocket I keep bundles which total $200, usually gathered as 10 of $20-bills. I sometimes have carried as many as 6 or 8 of these bundles (= $1600 total!), if there's a serious blow-out going on. But generally I'll only go into a club with two bundles (= $400 total). I pre-bundle these stacks, carefully, tightly, neatly. I'm anal about it. I find that $20-bills are the proper operative currency. Larger is annoying. The $50-bill and the $100-bill cause concern and perhaps consternation among staff and dancers, and also heighten my risk of mis-counting.
Also, I carry another money-clip for $1-bills. This smaller bundle (usually it's physically larger, but worth less) goes into the front shirt pocket. I let it flap around a bit, and don't bind the money very carefully. That bundle is for stage-tipping, titty-tipping, and general tipping-tipping. It is continually replenished and then depleted throughout the night. My perception of how much money I'm "wasting" at a club is based on how many times I dip into a bundle of $20-bills and reduce its original $200 total by breaking a $20. The $20-bills I watch, but I ignore any reduction in the $1-bills bundle, allowing it to "flow" out of my hands. I feel that this system -- ignore the $1 bills but watch the $20 bills -- gives leeway for tipping spontaneously while still guarding assets carefully. (Technically, of course, I'm NOT guarding as carefully as I COULD guard, but I'm not concerned with that technicality. Emotionally, I am guarding where I WANT to, and NOT guarding where I DON'T want to.)
I still haven't figured out what to do with $5-bills and $10-bills. Sometimes the $10-bills go into a (former) $200-total bundle with all the $20-bills, and I do find that $10-bills are helpful for paying or tipping a dancer with whom I've had an extended lapper session, especially if the total price comes out to exactly match a round multiple of $20-bills. Similarly, sometimes the $5-bills go in with the $1-bill bundles to be used later for drinks. This, however, risks me sticking a $5-bill in a garter when I intended to only put a $1-bill in there, so I don't like putting $5-bills in with the $1-bills. But usually I don't receive $5-bills or $10-bills. If I do I'm annoyed. :P
Just don't get your ones and 20's mixed up.. That would be one Giant Stage Tip!!
In nearly 25 years of clubbing I've never broken out the credit card or ATM card. Not planning to start now so not concerned with bringing them. There's always another day if I want to continue with a hottie.
"$100 bill on top" (with smaller bills underneath) spells poseur.
It wasn't so much that I wanted her to be "moral" or "upstanding about it." I wasn't looking for, "I'm sorry" or "It's not a bad thing / yes it is / no it isn't" type of interaction.
Rather, I was looking for "Uh oh he's going to be mad at me" or "Ooops you figured it out." I didn't get either. I just got "Yeah, I took it. I wanted it, so I took it. It's money isn't it? Everyone wants it if it's money." Weird ...
Everything bigger is usually in the wallet or else in a money clip that also holds my I.D. and possibly a creditcard. I've really gone away from using the money clip... If I can't handle having my wallet then I shouldn't be going in.
There are a couple of dancers at Stir that always pick my pockets! :)