Follow up on Eve's post
Corvus
Arizona
@EveHartley's discussion on have you ever lost anything valuable in a strip club, and reading all the responses made me think.
Why do you take those items into the club with you? It seems reasonable today to take your phone. Fewer men seem to need, or use, a watch these days. Car keys and glasses are going to be needed inside most of the time. Wallets and everything in them, nice money clips, jewelry, credit cards, whatever else.
Do you still take some of those valuable, but not needed ITC items inside now?
Why do you take those items into the club with you? It seems reasonable today to take your phone. Fewer men seem to need, or use, a watch these days. Car keys and glasses are going to be needed inside most of the time. Wallets and everything in them, nice money clips, jewelry, credit cards, whatever else.
Do you still take some of those valuable, but not needed ITC items inside now?
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I think this is completely dependent on your personality and self control, but for me, keeping my full wallet with credit cards is 100% benefit, 0 risk. I don't use the credit card in the club, nor have I ever just gone full retard over a girl and started charging things because I lost control. And I *do* use my credit card often -- to get coffee for me and my CF before I get to the club, to go out to dinner with CF or my buddies afterwards, to do the occasional after-shift OTC (not my preferred model, but do it occasionally). Am I missing something? How is the credit card anything but all-benefit no-risk, if you take my word for it that I never lose control and start charging things up in the club?
My wallet goes everywhere, front right pocket and I frequently tap it. Before I go into a club I arrange my money so that I don't have to take out my wallet much, if I do take it out I go to the bathroom.
I've tried other variations, just money clip and ID, but I just found it to be annoying. So far no problems.
I do however wear a decent watch. I have found over the years that a nice watch is a beacon to strippers. I guess it displays discretionary income. Doesn't need to be a Rolex either, I have gotten more compliments / comments over my $400 Movado than anything else. "Nice watch" is a very common opening line and beats "wanna dance?" any day.
1. It adds (sometimes significantly) to my fun at the club
2. It's an indispensible personal safety tool
FUN AT THE CLUB: I get the stripper's number with my phone (I find shadowcat's technique is optimized for getting strippers to not contact you; if I actually want to make contact, I have to get her number). I communicate with CF when I'm on my way to the club, to let her know to start breaking free from her current customer, and sometimes when I've parked to ask her if she wants a coffee. She and I will text each other at the club ("I'm in the back, be out in 10"), and faux-flirt (she'll text me a nudie of her in the back, I'll text her back a picture of a $20 bill, ha ha ha all around). We'll text each other snarky comments about people sitting right next to us at our table. We'll show each other pictures and spicy memes we have on our phones. I use my phone to soundhound songs (I'd say 50+% of songs on my phone, I've heard at the club!)
^^^^ None of this is absolutely required to have fun, but the phone really truly adds a lot of phone to the experience.
2. PERSONAL SAFETY TOOL. For many decades, people didn't wear seatbelts, and the vast majority of them survived being in cars (my entire childhood, my seatbelt was my mom's arm swinging across the car). But now that we know how the small act of putting on a seatbelt could save your life in the unlikely event of an accident -- what kind of dope doesn't put on a seatbelt? Similarly, for all but the past few decades, humanity has survived without phones, and I'm likely to survive a trip to the strip club without having my phone. But given that a cell phone is so useful as a personal safety device, why do it? The ability to call the police if I see something dangerous in the club or outside the club, why would I give that up? What if I have a personal medical emergency? And during a strip club trip, I can easily be gone for 6-8 hours (an hour+ each way to commute, 3-4 hours at the club, an hour grabbing dinner afterwards with my buddies), why be out of touch with my kids for that much time, what if they need me? And, this is CA, earthquakes are a real phenomenon, and we know from past earthquakes that even when power goes down, often the cell phone network stays up, and if it does go down, is often the first service restored. Why wander around without that potential lifeline?
I realize most of you will resonate more with the "fun in the club" than "personal safety tool", but for me the 2nd one by itself is enough for me never to be without a phone. Like a seatbelt, it's an act that takes no energy at all but every day proves it can pay itself back in spades, for someone who takes personal responsibility for their safety. Or you can think I'm a paranoid weirdo, which is fine too :)
It's like if you lose your car in a wreck. A major pain. However you can't go far without it unless you bum rides off of others or use a more expensive ride service.
I don't think of my phone as a major safety device. I mean if someone goes on a shooting rampage, a gazillion others will likely call 911 before me and I can't turn my phone into a weapon to take out an attacker. For that I need close contact and martial arts or combat skills. I hope I'm never in that situation. That's not why I go to clubs.
You're having a mall ninja moment, Rick. We all realize you don't go to clubs to stop shooting rampages :) :) More common things, that I've absolutely seen firsthand in the bad parts of the city many clubs are located, include minor assaults, possible medical emergencies, etc. All still not common, but real.
To add to my list, other things I use my phone for at the club: to call an uber or lyft to get a ride to the train station, so I don't have to walk buzzed through the often bad neighborhoods. To see the train schedule so I can time things. (as I said above, to be available for my kids if THEY need help while I"m gone, is pretty key for me)
Never been much of a watch-wearer and haven't had one in years.
I enter the club with a burner phone, keys, and a different wallet that only has cash. No fancy accessories. Everything else gets locked and alarmed in my vehicle.