Rough looking place. About two...

Rough looking place. About two seconds into my visit I was met at the bar by Chocolate, who proceeded to talk my ear off but was very sweet. Didn't get a good look at the club because I was trying not to be rude and walk off. Lots of youngsters here. Must be an 18 and over place. There was one pretty good looking dancer but I can't recall her name. Bought a beer and threw in my five dollars, so place cost me $12 total. $1 tip to the house and $2 in quarters for the pool table. Chocolate wasn't bad for chat but I didn't get any dances. Understood that there's a decent menu but that's assuming the guy brought (and kept) an appetite. Shot a very, very long game of pool. One reason was because my playing partner was no pool shark and the other was because very easy shots became hard because these kids would move their feet slightly but apparently didn't figure out that a good shot requires good body positioning, too. But since the image out there is everybody must "go hard" these days, why be polite and move? I'm getting a little too far along in life to fight my way out of meaningless situations, especially ones I walk into willingly, so I just shot around the kids, finished my beer and took off. Left four quarters so they had something to do other than sit around and stare down people with better things to do. On some level I think they gave me as much respect as they knew how, maybe they were raised by wolves...To top it off, to get in and out of this place you have to walk a gauntlet of asian massage parlors on either side with them yelling at you and doing everything but snatching you to get your attention. I've heard that's happened, too. Pump House was the first real club I hit in Fayetteville after the episodes over on Murchison and Yadkin, and by now the whole scene in this city was getting depressing. Not to mention my navigator had tapped out at the local Sonic and I was now getting by on memory and some quickly scribbled landmarks. Longer story short, being in that little strip mall horeshoe (parking lot bordered by clubs on three sides with Bragg Blvd along the fourth) surrounded by all those echoing voices wasn't cool at all. Avoid the whole area unless you really, really want to make a run to Mickey's a few doors up.