underwhelm

I for one am interested to know how it goes. That story makes me think of this: I was in a club recently and had a couple of rail drinks, then switched to a name brand rye whiskey double because the rail was crap. I just sipped it, planning that this was my last drink of the evening. I was mostly through the whiskey, was talking to a dancer, and suddenly I just had this "power off" sensation. It was almost like I heard the sound effect that plays in an action movie when someone cuts the master power to a massive nuclear reactor. Vision was instantly blurred. Felt unsteady, and maybe lurched a little, even though I was sitting down. Sounds and visuals became somewhat distorted, like in a movie where a grenade just went off nearby. It took a lot of willpower to collect myself, keep it together, and not look like a total freakazoid to the dancer I was talking to. It took a couple of minutes to steady myself. I drank water. Once or twice I reflexively was about to sip the whiskey again (though there was only about 1 mm of it left in the glass)... but I knew that even that tiny bit would have a big effect on how long it'd take for this to pass. I got through it, and was good enough to drive about an hour later. But I admit that the extremely sudden onset was crazy, and had me thinking about the sort of situation you described. Was there something in the alcohol? Maybe. If so, was it malicious? Possibly not. I often suspect clubs of refilling name brand liquor bottles with other liquor; the profit margins from this very simple and easy-to-do deception can be insane. What if they refilled my top shelf bottle with some mixture of actual rye whiskey, plus some cheap filler, plus something super potent to make customers think they were getting the "good" (i.e. strong) stuff? Come to think of it, that whiskey was from the very bottom of the bottle, too. She emptied it out fully when she poured my drink. If there was some kind of mixture in there, it's entirely possible that the nuclear-powered hooch had settled out in the bottom. Stuff to think about.

True enough about inflation affecting the girls, Desert... though as Blonde says, I'm skeptical how much of this actually goes to the girls. I was more thinking about what this particular market will bear. It's not an especially big metro area, and it's not like there are a bunch of tech giants, oil companies, or other big payers around. And while inflation is rising, it's not like all the customers' wages are skyrocketing alongside. It seems to me that clubs usually need some amount of regulars to make ends meet. The bachelor parties and business trippers will provide some occasional big dollars, but I'd think you'd need a steady background of regulars to keep the bills paid. As I said, inflation is a real thing... but a business can only succeed when it charges what the local market will support. Will the local market support this, or will the club end up making less money through less dances? I dunno. What I can say is: I'd expected the place to be going nuts, with all the pent-up covid demand being let loose. But that wasn't the case... it just wasn't that busy.

Pricing info was from a girl from that night. I was slightly drunk, and can't remember if it was $120 or $125 for three dance VIP. It was definitely one of the two. I was paying less attention to the half hour rate, because I had no intention of taking it, even at the previous $300. But it was either quoted to me as $340 or $350. Re: touching in champagne room, that info is from several past experiences. While I didn't do champagne room that night, I cannot imagine they changed their policy on that. Touching is the only thing that gives their VIP rooms any added value. If they dropped it, there would literally be tumbleweeds in VIP. (Though there may be tumbleweeds already.) You aren't supposed to grab their tits or pussy, though my experience is you're fine with tits if you aren't grabbing in a very obvious way. You can grab her ass as long as your fingers aren't visibly too close to her asshole. (Due to how the cameras are positioned, that's the area they're going to have the best view of.) If someone goes there and finds that they actually did change the VIP touching policy, please update us. For me, that would be the final nail in this place.