Peaking at the club

Oh man, I stay six or eight hours at a given club. I just get socked in. The "buzz" feeling often doesn't START until after 3 hours of staring at the TV or the wall ...

AN: I don't like to leave while I'm still on a peak. I don't feel let down if I stay around a little longer, until I'm sure I've experienced all the thrills I can, since I don't go to clubs that often. However, I try not to get more dances after I've passed the point of diminishing returns. The way my visit comes to an end isn't as important to me as how much fun I had earlier. On the other hand, ending my set of dances with any one girl on a peak is very important. I hate the feeling of enduring one dance too many.

My capacity is apparently about twice that of FONDL. 2 hours is a short visit. Closer to 3 hours is typical, and 4 is not unheard of for me when, as they say, time flies. Cutoff time for me is often dictated by the vibe within the club. I like to leave when the midnight party hard crowd takes over.

I generally limit my visits to 1.5 hours or if I'm having a really good time 2 hours max. I've found that if I stay longer than that things generally go downhill and I end up spending more money than I want to. So my rule of thumb is 1.5 hours unless I find a girl who really turns me on, then I'll stretch it to 2 hours but rarely more than that. I don't usually take enough money with me to last longer than that anyway, so it's both a time limit and a money limit.

Chandler, I think you have neatly summarized what I am pondering. How do you tell an ebb in the buzz from the end of the buzz and leave on a high note rather than a sour note?

My visits tend to have more of a series of peaks and valleys than a single crest of stripper buzz that I ride until I sense it's time to bail out. A common reason I'll stay too long and end on a sour note is waiting to connect with top choice among the strippers. Eventually, I'll give up on her or I'll grow weary of thinking about her.

A similar pattern goes like this: Soon after arriving, I'll pick out, say, six girls I'd like to get dances with. Over the next two or three hours, I'll get with #1, #3 & #4, leaving #2, #5 & #6 to set my sights on. By that time, however, I've been watching them so much I start to notice flaws. Maybe it's just sour grapes, but I conclude they aren't as desirable as I first thought, and aren't worth hanging around for. Or if there's one girl who still seems hot, I'll rationalize that it's better to leave her for another visit when I'm not nearing the ebb of my buzz.

Minnow, I like the analogy, and the lack of a pat answer is why I think this is an interesting question. Two recent visits kind of highlited this dilema for me. One, I stayed too long. Things slowed but I stuck around mostly because I was trying to hang on to the good time. Another I was sure I'd stayed too long again, but then another dancer convinced me otherwise.

As for the blackjack table I can't tell, I'm not much of a gambler, but in the past if I'm not at least even after 8-10 hands I quit. You can tell I don't play a lot of blackjack since it takes very few losing hands to convince me to quit. One entire casino visit consisted of win, lose, lose, win, quit while I'm even.

AN: Don't have a pat answer for you- its like asking when to leave blackjack table. Are you gonna be happy being $300 ahead, or are you gonna stay and play for $1K? If you're $200 down, are you gonna cut your losses or try to get it back? Would "progressing" to $1K down change your outlook any?? A Question for Bones... If you go in a club that has all the good elements, but you just can't get a Woody, how would that influence your grade??

In my book, a really good visit is only wrapped up at one of these three points in time;
1. when the bartender is yelling "last call"
2. when you've lined up someone to come back to your hotel
3. you've calculated that in order to get home before your alibi becomes unbelievable, you must leave now (ie., you said that you were going to the game and grab a bite to eat, and if you really did that, you'd have to be home by 11:30)

As for leaving because you drank too much... that only means that I have to stay longer in order to get back into "driving condition".

Bones, all valid points, but I'm more interested in when to wrap up a good visit. Your points seem to be more of a "you know it's a bad night when..." Consider the visit where you see multiple dancers you want to sample, and the dances are all good, and the atmosphere is very upbeat and fun and you are having a good time. At what point do you start to think of wraping it up? Is it when you realize you've gotten drunk, or when you've sampled all the dances you care for? I'm curious about how others wrap up a good stripclub visit.