In my local daily newspaper this morning was a front page headline about a former stripper who now owns seven drive-up bikini coffee stands. (They're plentiful here in the Puget Sound Region.) She's in jail now and she's been in trouble with the law a few times previously because of how she operates her coffee stands. Essentially, she's being accused of running drive-up brothels, since she and her baristas have demonstrated that the serving of coffee appears to be ancillary to sales of other "services."​ I know who the owner is, and I was a customer at the clubs where she previously danced. I even got dances from her a couple of times. I also know a couple of other former strippers, since-turned baristas, who work at her stands.
As I glanced at the headline, I also thought that I have dozens of friends and family that get this newspaper. And absolutely none of them know I have any connection to the coffee stand owner and her past. They may recognize that a few of the seven stands are near where I live. But, otherwise they don't know about my closer relationship to the issue, because they don't know I go to strip clubs.
Anyone else out there, have a similar experience?
Sort of. There have been a couple of body rub busts the last year or so where they put the girls' faces on TV. I've recognized a couple of them, and hope I've hidden my reaction well enough. :)