Winter 08 - prepare for violin music, sad stories & tall tales

example: 3 weeks back near the end of November an inbound call from a dancer leaving a message on the cell.

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"I was driving around paying my bills and I was thinking of you, and by the way I will be in the club tomorrow for sure, hope to see you, miss you alot"

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(Funny I couldn't make it that day, I wonder why)

Looks like alot of them will be sucking on my dick for very reasonable prices.

Went on Sunday to a club to hear a tale about a young lady whose boyfriends beat her so she dumped him, took all her possessions came down to Miami and had no place to sleep and slept in her car the night before. I got one dance and said I am no miracle worker

"a young lady whose boyfriends beat her"

sripper boyfriends need to get those new video games - or else

Yup, this is predictable. Now what will regulars do, if anything, about this? Wuss up and help out with financing, through more dances, lunches and dinner? Or get tough and remember that we have to look after ourselves first--dancers do. Bonuses in many industries are down or non-existant. Tuition, if you have kids in college, is a real number. Divorced dads will be hit with increases in child support as ex-wives get laid off. Daners are used to easy money, but those days are going and gone. They might make money if they and the club owners dropped prices--but that would require thinking through the problem. Not possible with these folks.

I didn't really think about this before but some dancers have been telling me "I'll be here next weekend. Will you?" For me the answer has often been no, if I have company visiting. I expect the economy will take a turn for the worse in 2008. I could be wrong about that though. I thought I read today the Bush mortgage bail out plan will only affect about 250,000 people or so leaving up to 3.5 million other people unaffected and in danger of losing their homes. That seems like a high enough number to create a drag on the economy. Just think, if Hillary was president, she could raise our taxes and let the government take care of everything. Then we wouldn't even need to worry about strip clubs because we wouldn't have any discretionary income to spend.

Actually the qualifying 250,000 are not necessarily safe either, as for the most part it only affects the extra amount they pay due to the ARM reset. However expect Socialist Hillary and Super Socialist Edwards to propose complete governement takeover of the problem.

Am I the only one here who thinks that the sad stories and whining about the "weak economy" have been going on in SDs for many years? Seems to me that's been a part of standard SS fare for as long as I can remember. Maybe the economy will fall in 2008 but it sure didn't in 2007, in fact third quarter growth (which was when we were last discussing this) was well above average.

I would rather have sad stories about the weak economy than be lied to. A few weeks ago a dancer told me that an old favorite of mine was pregnant so that other girl was done dancing for awhile. When I stopped at this club over the weekend, the "old favorite" was there....she wasn't working but stopped by my table to chat for a few minutes. She told me has cancer and the medicine has "caused her to gain 20 pounds" and now that she can't work because of the cancer, she was getting evicted from her apartment. Some SS is OK, but don't lie to me like that.

David120: giving out a sad story about a weak economy, rather than lying to the American public, didn't serve Jimmy Carter very well at all ...

GNP growth in the most recent quarters - strong. GNP level - the highest in history. Employment - near record levels. Unemployment rate - near historical lows. Income - at record levels. Can anyone cite any statistical evidence of a weak economy? There isn't any. Sure there are certain sectors and certain areas that aren't doing particularly well, but that's always true.

No doubt most americans are spoiled and have been for many years, and dancers are generally overpaid whiners. Now that said, there is still something happening in the economy and its being reflected via apparent slowdowns in certain discretionary services

Most likely the real estate downturn is rippling through spending, and it doesn't simply appear to be a matter of the psychology or perception, for some reason people are cutting back and strip clubs in certain locales seem to be reflecting this

I'm looking forward to the time when the "weak" economy means that prices for certain unregulated under-the-counter services begin to drop...

Dancers in Detroit whine a lot, but they have a lot to whine about. The economy here is really down and people oare leaving the Detroit area and the state. For those guys trying to to tough it out, times are lean and SC money is tight. Yet, there is not even a hint that prices will drop. Dancers are now hitting customers at closing for gas money to get home. What will they do when it hits $4 a gallon by springtime?

I managed to avoid any large SC related "gifts" during the holidays (except 20's here and there for several random dancers), by a variation of hiding and keeping a low profile, so I might have to use some variation of this in Jan and Feb when the sad tales start getting more elaborate. Sort of like the Watergate strategy Hadleman was using - a "modified limited hangout" of some type