So much potential wasted for me

Unfortunately the worst experience I’ve had at a strip joint but YMMV. Girls were inattentive, I left with all my money minus drinks and $20 in stage tips.

I know I am not the most attractive guy but I am not old or smelly. I can get shy but I will approach a girl I like. I was ditched by two of them, one I bought a drink for before she disappeared and the other promised to be over and didn’t show for five songs. I cut my losses and I left.

Background for frame of reference: I have been all over the country and visited clubs plus lap dancing clubs in the UK and FKK clubs in Germany but this was the first bikini club in over 20 years, since I was under 18. I have dancer friends and outside visits from local clubs where I’ve lived, mainly in the Midwest. This place is the closest to where I am staying for business for another 2 weeks. I thought I’d try here first during a weeknight before Tampa spots. I get a generous entertainment stipend and wanted to blow some of it.

General club: $7 cover after midnight. Drinks are priced decently but a Jack and Coke was $11 at the bar and $9 Jack and Sprite from the waitress. Coke tax? The waitress was odd because she didn’t seem to want tips. She brought change and quickly left. I tried to give her combined tips after three drinks by telling her I didn’t need change. She brought it any way and I told her it was for the last three drinks she got confused and I added another $5 for a dancer’s NA drink and she left. Is this a Florida thing? Regular bars and restaurants love their tips. She did not know the drink special that night but found out for me. It was 2 for 1 well drinks so I switched double rum and Sprites for $6.25. The club has good seating and is spacious but smokey. I have become used to smoke free places. The restroom attendant made me think of a young biker who was down on his luck. He startled me in such a small restroom. He was pleasant and generally unobtrusive. Songs are cut short to a time but I never timed them. The DJ was incredibly hard to understand and sounded like either he had a stoma voice box or unfortunate voice effects. They did two events with all girls reporting to the floor where you get 4 for two dances, which are cut even shorter, a drink voucher and a towel or shirt. No one approached me for it. If the girls get no takers, they all have to dance for “4 songs” on stage

The girls: All bikini. No more than you’d see at the beach unless you’re tipping. Even then, it’s just some leg spreading and bending over. The stage has spinning poles so some girls have some tricks. Tipping styles varied from making it rain to $3-4 at a time to keep the dancer’s attention. Dances are two dance rotations. It is odd to me that there is not much stripping here. Girls get up in their bikinis and dance. The girls were all attractive, 7-9 on a real world scale. It was mostly thin white girls and nicely proportioned black girls. While tipping, I asked one girl to stop by if she was interested in dances. She said she would and did. I asked if she wanted a drink. She said yes and ordered from the waitress. As she brought the drink, another dancer came to talk to the one sitting with me and said she wasn’t trying to be rude but needed to talk to the dancer with me. They walked off, disappeared for a bit then I saw her going off with a dude to the private area for several dances. This left an untouched coconut Red Bull. Score? I waited a while until they did a lame dance promo. I saw the girl again and was sure she’d stop by. Nope, back with the other guy. After she was done with him, she circulated a bit but hugged the walls and would not even look my direction. A little later I went back to the stage to tip another girl. She said she’d stop over but never did. I took the straw out of the Red Bull and left. The whole almost three hours I was there, I was approached by one girl whom I was not interested in.