Buying things from the bathroom troll?
PaulDrake
Off again on again PL
So assuming you give the bathroom troll a buck... What is and isn't typically considered complimentary? I would assume a mint or a shot of cheap body spray is free. But the nicer perfume? Obviously cigarettes are not free.
Also you know what would be awesome for the trolls to have for sale is... EARPLUGS! Occasionally I'll end up at a club right near a speaker and I would totally pay a few bucks to buy earplugs. On my last trip I ended up making some out of napkin paper.
Also you know what would be awesome for the trolls to have for sale is... EARPLUGS! Occasionally I'll end up at a club right near a speaker and I would totally pay a few bucks to buy earplugs. On my last trip I ended up making some out of napkin paper.
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Sometimes that's an added bonus.
I’ve not been to a club with a troll in years. It’s a bit too classy for me.
Either that or I was in the ladies room.
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I haven't tried them, but do have an earmuff version of this type of electronic hearing protection: it muffles loud noises, but amplifies (to whatever extent you want) softer noises, like talking. I use it in the range when I'm teaching beginners to shoot, I have them wear these with the microphones facing backwards (towards me). Would be impressive if these things could simultaneously muffle loud music while amplifying speech, but I'm sure it's not that sophisticated -- guessing the loud music would have the things in constant "muffle everything" mode
i enjoy the tacos greatly from two particular taco carts.
I think it's varying combinations of these: keeping the bathroom clean and presentable, pretense, logistics ( keeping a supply of dry paper towels and not having to touch the sink to turn on the water in a possibly suspect men's room), a presence to keep the men's room from being used as a makeshift champagne room, offering Listermint to freshen up in case of bad breath, etc.
FWIW, some more upscale places don't have restroom trolls, while some dives do (and vice versa)
What am I doing being a stripper?
If someone shits on the floor - I’d expect the troll won’t clean it up. So what’s the point?
I know some of them actually pay to rent the space from the club. Whether or not that's the norm I don't know.
I continue to think the theory is: if someone (Even the bathroom troll) is watching, the guy won't shit on the bathroom floor in the first place.
My tuscl-driven philosophy on bathroom trolls: this guy's job is to stand in the men's room of a strip club, and offer towels to drunk PLs. I always tip him -- "there but for the grace of God" and all that
Well, that's how I try to treat the bathroom troll. I am just thinking, have I EVER seen a bathroom troll who isn't a member of a highly visible minority? I figure all of them are Black, in my memory. I haven't ever seen a mostly-Hispanic-looking bathroom troll, and I can't recall a single White bathroom troll, ever. Nor an Asian. Maybe it's different in different cities.
My favorite troll is a guy from Ghana, with a thick verbal accent, who works at the Penthouse Club in New Orleans (just off Bourbon Street). He's been there about ten years now, always cool to be around, and he really knows his sports. I hear guys talking NBA basketball, college Final Four basketball, NFL football, I will talk World Cup or other international soccer and he never misses a beat with any of them. I figure it's entirely possible that his net-worth is much higher than mine, given that I will possibly SPEND $1,000.oo in one night's visit to that Penthouse Club (well, or, at least, that's what I might have done before our recent crackdown) whereas he could very well MAKE somewhere around the same amount? What if he just socks it all into some kind of Chinese Bond scheme and eventually owns the club? Good for him!
I think think I've ever "bought" anything, like, "oh hey I want that packet of gum please here's $5 for what would be $1.25 in a vending machine." But I have "exchanged" as in, "well, I didn't need you to turn the furkin tap on and off for me, I can handle that difficult chore myself, but since you're doing it I guess I'll give you a two-dollar tip for this the first time I visit."
Oh, by the way, it's not lost money. Lost $1 bills in a strip club, according to my personal rule, are simply THE COST OF DOING STRIP-CLUB BUSINESS. If it goes to the bartender, the required tip to the girl strolling the bar-top (cf. Visions club, New Orleans), or into a garter because I want it to go there, it's all "well I don't have any One's right now" or "yes I will spend a One" and I don't count them and I assume it will be $20 in One's, minimum, for each two- to three-hour stint spent in a club. So, if the bathroom troll gets some of it, that's just "rent for being inside the club" type thinking, in my books. You "rent" your time in there. If you don't, you're not clubbing, and you're not participating in the "norm" of behaviors that are "expected" these days. I don't DEFEND it, as far as market forces I can either justify it or denigrate it, so it's not like I think of it as "right" (or wrong) to do. But I do say, that this continual tipping IS indeed the current norm, and I participate, sometimes with chagrin and sometimes with glee.
So, the troll receives money in tip form, but, I don't necessarily purchase condiments (is that how you spell it?) from him.
@PD- I buy the 10 or so earplug packets at Walgreens. If you don't have any, there is likely a 24 hr Walgreens within reasonable distance of club. (or the business hotel where you're staying.) I haven't noticed any real issues with itc conversation while wearing those earplugs. I haven't looked, but I'm sure Amazon has several different earplugs.
@nicespice- You need to visit 4Play in Los Angeles. Last several times I was there, women's restroom had female bathroom troll.
they don't make a whole lotta money cause of broke ass bitches like y'all so they happy to sell me a little coke.