Baby Doll's was my third and...

Baby Doll's was my third and last stop of the day on an I-75 road trip last Thursday. I had already met my daily sin quota and then some, and I was running quite late heading home, but I didn't want to pass up the chance to see what all the online buzz was about. Whatever it is, I'm afraid it escaped me. Maybe I lacked patience, maybe I caught them on a bad night. All I can assume is that I disagree with the prevailing assessment.

There were about six or seven girls on hand, two of whom I might have been interested in getting dances with. One part-Asian girl looked really sexy but sat with another customer during the whole time. There was a fairly cute, long haired brunette with a slighly plump but still very decent bod whom I spotted only briefly a couple of times. Although none of the girls circulated among the customers to speak of, I suppose I could have forced the issue with either of these two, but it would have been awkward. Actually, I might have done so, had I not been under the misapprehension (my own fault) that dances cost $20, not $10. Nevertheless, I was not encouraged by the lackluster atmosphere hanging over the room. With next to nobody tipping, buying dances, etc., it felt like a David Lynch still life. The 3-song (clothed-topless-nude) stage sets were excruciatingly dull to sit through. Somehow, they managed to make the display of pussy about as arousing as a nudist camp shuffleboard game. After about 45 minutes, I hadn't seen an opening of any kind, and I had no reason to think staying longer would change that, so I moved on.

I didn't come away feeling there are bad people here trying to rip anybody off, as is so often the case after a lousy strip club experience. Not bad people, just incompetent or complacent. The whole thing seems slapped together, as though somebody told them about strip clubs secondhand and this is their first draft at creating their own. I'm no fan of slick gentlemen's clubs, but I would have welcomed a bit of polish and at least a bit of hustle from those two girls. (I was cool with no hustle from the others.) While I am tempted to give Baby Dolls the benefit of the doubt and rate it a 5, I believe it already has received too many breaks. I'm taking it down a notch, because they desperately need to get some better looking dancers and make sure they put on a better show - ANY kind of show.