I just read the thread “Why do so many PL's ….†and thought I'd post about my recent ROB episode, and related management encounter.
This thread is “Book Guy(ish)†– my apologies since I tend to be very (or too) wordy – but it is an interesting story w.r.t. a ROB and my subsequent encounter with management.
Some quick background to put my ROB story in context. This club was a black dive. Most black clubs in Miami are dives and believe it or not they only charge $5 per table dance and $10 per LD. 90% of the customers opt for the $5 dances since most of the dancers will still grind on the customers with these dances. Personally, I think a $5 dance is insulting (i.e. paying a dancer that) especially since these dancers will actually give and allow a lot of contact. Most dancers don't seem to mind or more likely don't have a choice since even with $5 dances, many customers in these dives don't get dances and rather sit there, drink, dance or bob their heads to the music, and try to get free lovin' from the dancers by talking them and grabbing at them, etc.
So I was at this dive last Tuesday evening. As soon as I walked in and sat by the bar, a fine young black spinner came over to me – she recognized me (as she later told me) either from being in that SC before or some other club she's danced at. She is all over me, which I appreciated and liked, and she asks me if I want a dance. I say yes, she gives me 4 dances in a row which were very good and I give her $40. As I said b/f, dances at clubs like this are usually $5, the only time a dancer will charge $10 if they give a LD and a LD is considered as one sitting on a regular chair and the girl straddling you and grinding on you with her bottoms on – even so, some dancers at these clubs will still give you LDs for $5 and even grind on you w/ their bottoms off. I was sitting by the bar on a high chair and these dances are considered $5 table dances (even though there is a lot of two-way contact) – but as I said b/f, I believe paying $5 for a dance w/ contact is an insult, so I don't mind paying $10/dance and always do (don't mind considering LDs in most SCs are $20-$25/LD). So this spinner was very appreciative (as most dancers in these clubs are) that not only did I got 4 dances from her in a row but that I paid her $10/dance instead of the usual $5 she would get.
While the spinner was dancing for me at the bar, there was a supa-thick ebony sitting a couple of feet away “watching the action†(i.e. me and my spinner). As soon as my spinner left after giving me the 4 dances, supa-thick ebony immediately approaches me for dances (it was a Tuesday evening and not many customers at all and I had only seen one other customer, at the time, getting a dance). So supa-thick asks me if she could dance for me, and how could I resist, she had a small waist, and an ass that needed to chairs to sit on (I'm exaggerating, but you get the point). So supa-thick starts dancing and grinding on me and it was good – she really knew how to use all that azz.
One thing about black dives is that one needs to be extra careful about getting ROBed – some of these dancers see a white guy there and they'll either think he's got a lot of $$$; doesn't know how things work; etc, and they'll try to ROB him – that has been my personal experience at least. Having said this, if I am getting multiple dances in a row (which I often do) in a black dive, I'll often ask, or tell the dancer, we have done ‘x' # of dances right? So supa-thick does two dances for me and after the 2nd dance I ask - we've done two right? She said no, we've done 4, I was 99.9% sure we had done two at most and 100% sure we had not done 4 – so supa-thick tells me it's 4 and it's $40. I tell her, I counted 2, she says “no baby it was 4†– so I give her the $40 and she tries to give me a kiss goodbye since she noticed I was pissed – I put up my hand as she was trying to kiss me and waved her off as saying get away from me.
Normally I would just chuck this up to a “bad business deal†and leave it at that since the monetary difference was only $20 – but as some might understand, it was not about the $$$ but the principle. I was pissed and I said, I am going to make management aware of what happened, not b/c I was expecting, nor wanted my $$$ back, but simply b/c she is a ROB and was probably going to screw (in a bad way :)) other guys too.
So I went to the front where one pays to get in since there was a young black gentleman/employee sitting there with a tie and I thought he may be the manager. I went up to him and asked him if he was the manager and he said know but asked me what was wrong. I described the ROB to him and I asked the guy if she was a new dancer since I had not seen her before – he said she had been there for about a month, “why†he asked. I said she ripped me off; she gave me 2 dances and charged me for 4. I wasn't expecting anything to come out of it and told him so; but I told him I wanted to make management aware of what was going on. The employee told me to come with him and took me to the manager's office in the back – I explained to the manager (another young AA gentleman) what happened and the manager tells the employee who had taken me to his office to go get the dancer.
As soon as the dancer (supa-thick) walks into the office, she starts handing me a $20 for the rip-off (I guess the employee who went to get her told her what she was going to the manager's office for). With supa-thick and myself in front of the manager, the manager asks me where I was sitting when I was getting the dances – I told him by the bar – then he asks me, “how much did you give her†– I said “$40 for 4 dances†and I told him that me bringing to his attention was not about the $$$ but just to make him aware of what was going on w.r.t. this dancer – the manager looks at the dancer and tells her - “what have I told you about charging people for dances at the bar – it's $5 even if you touch them (vs. a regular table/air dance)â€. – the manager made the ROB give me $10 in addition to the $20 she had already given me back. The manager apologized and said he was glad I brought it to his attention b/c dancers like that were bad for business – the manager instructed the other employee to tell the bar tender that my next drink was on the house.
As I was walking out of the manager's office, I shook the employee's hand (guy who had taken me to manager's office) and thanked him for his help and then he said – “I'm glad you told us – that girl just came back to the club b/c she had been banned for 4 months for “issues†she'd had; she'll probably get fired now†he said - I did not see the ROB the rest of the night.
To be honest, I was surprised at the treatment I got from club staff/management. After all it was a he said she said thing. I wasn't expecting management to take my side per se, I just wanted to file a complaint that way the next time the ROB had an incident with another customer, there would be a precedent there.
So maybe some management does give a shit some of the time!!!

