I'm not one to spend much one-on-one time w/ dancers chit-chatting (I'm usually getting dances or scouting the floor or looking at the stage) - thus I rarely buy drinks for dancers and usually turn them down when they ask me b/c I rather spend my $$$ on dances rather than over-priced SC drinks - at times I may buy a drink for a dancer that gave me really good dances and put in some work, or once in a blue-moon but a dancer a drink b/c she asks and I know her and she's given me good-dances.
There are dancers that seem to really like their alcohol and wanna get their drink-on on the custy's dime - and some of them seem to need to drink in order to perform as a stripper and may also want the custy to pony-up for their drinks.
Once in a while I feel more benevolent and will buy a dancer a drink if she asks - but there are dancers that will take advantage of one's politeness/generosity and will ask for a drink and then treat themselves to expensive drinks - two occasions that I remember:
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at Follies a while back on an early Su afternoon where the club was kinda still slow (may have been around 2 pm) - a slender ebony w/ big natural boobs approaches me and asks for a drink - she had great tits so I all of a sudden felt more benevolent - so she asks if she could have a drink maybe 10 seconds after she approaches me and I say ok - waitress comes back and tells me it was $15 (w/o tip) - I had been in ATL since Wed or Th and been clubbing hard and by Su was not in a mood to be spending big - I got pissed for her ordering such an expensive drink w/o asking me first if it was ok and being in a pissed mood I declined to pay for it - she had been the one to order from the waitress instead of me so she ended up paying for it and naturally we parted ways after that
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@ Baby Dolls Dallas early-on in my PL-career and way b/f being a TUSCL scholar - visited BDs on a slow weekday afternoon - was approached by a MILF that looked like she had been around the SC-block - she asks for q drink and being a chivalrous newb I said "sure" - waitress comes back and tells me it's $25 for her drink on damn dayshift (she had ordered a mini-bottle of champagne) - being a newb "I didn't wanna make a scene" as many ball-less newbs often say and just paid up; but probably would not do so today - I don't mind spending $$$ in a SC but I don't like being taken advantage of which I consider the case when a dancer orders an expensive drink w/o asking if it's ok first
Have you ever felt uncomfortable/pissed b/c a dancer ordered what you thought was an overly expensive drink? If I'm the one to offer then I feel that's kinda on me; but if she's the one that asks and then gets an expensive drink (or at least much more expensive than the avg drink), then I feel she's taking advantage - what say the PL-gallery?


Papi,
For many years I used to panic over what she was going to say when she ordered her drink. Over the past 10 years, I've made this a non-issue by taking complete control over the drink order. She doesn't get to say shit to the waitress, unless it's to answer the question of what she wants as her back. What I do:
Ask her what she wants, before the waitress gets there (if we'll be ordering from the waitress). Often, I'll start constraining her choices right there: We're doing shots, what do you like, vodka or tequila? I'll give her a little wiggle room, but not much. She asks for Kettle1, I tell her "I can buy $20 shots and only do 1 VIP with you today, or buy cheap shots and do 2 or 3 VIPs", and that conversation is now over.
Go to the bar and order her drink for her, if I'm ordering at the bar. Same if it's a waitress: I order both of our drinks, very specifically mentioning "well shots" or "Svedka and soda" or some other less-expensive alcohol.
If the waitress gets to us before I've had a chance to have "the talk" with her, I'll tell the waitress to come back in a few minutes, or in my home club where I"m most comfortable, I'll have that discussion with the waitress right there (the waitresses all know I'm a cheap fuck when it comes to drinks anyway).
In short, caveat emptor, if you didn't take control of the order, there's an extent to which I think you're reaping what you've sewn.