This club is literally purgatory

Purgatory is, according to the belief of some Christians, an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification. There is considerable disagreement among Christians whether purgatory is a single place, a divided place, whether that place is filled with fire, or whether it is a metaphor and not a place. - Wikipedia

It is not a place, it is a strip club called the 19th Hole. The layout is familiar from all the other reviews -- the club is one main room with a rectangular bar, stage in the middle, chairs all around. The stage is big enough for two dancers, but usually there aren't two dancers until 10 p.m. on a weekend. I arrived around 9:15 p.m. and there were around six customers and five dancers circulating. Off to the right of the main room are two couch dance areas -- a communal $20 area, where there are no extras, and, through a doorway close to the entrance, a hallway of curtain covered shallow cubicles each with a small couch, each of which cost $30 a song. The idiots that run the place replaced the couches not very long ago, with dark microfiber couches that are impossible to clean, are already splitting, and I am told that when a bouncer takes a blacklight in the cubicle the inside, the couch, the walls, the curtains and even the ceiling are coated in dried cum. Yes, the ceiling -- in handprints of semen. God help us all.

A long time of just sitting, with it being hot enough in the place that everyone was sweating and the fire may indeed have been going, until enough of my sins had been expiated to allow for a new one.