Jenny has a job babysitting three Italians, two of which are more or less middle-aged men, the other one is Sicillian. They are working on a two million dollar house, they're the plastering experts, especially flown in for this job. They cooked for us in their rental home near Santa Monica.
The Italians didn't speak any English, except for the Sicillian guy. Nonetheless Max Moore bonded with Nino? Tito? quite quickly after a few drinks. They more or less had a conversation about women and the army. The food was very good. There was pasta and a lot of meat. After this most of the gang left but sinds I was Max's driver this afternoon I stayed with Max, Jenny and the Italians. Then the plan of going to a stripclub kind of popped up, but first we went to Santa Monica beach. The guy on the right is bad ass, I'll get back to that later.
I couldn't make any photos in the stripclub. This club was somewhat fancy. It almost looked like a filmset, but not quite. It was very dark. I shot some pictures while hiding my camera under my jacket.
Which explains why the photos are not very good, to say the least.
It goes like this: the entrance fee was ten dollars and there's a minimum of one drink per person which is seven dollars and this club didn't serve any alcohol, which pissed the Italians off a bit. It's more expensive to sit in a booth, with nice seats, but our table and chairs were quite comfortable. Then every girl does her bit - they all have their own routine. Most of them had quite a good choice in music and they seemed to move well. The light was dim, which was good because they would get completely naked. After their routine they collect the money the costumers put on the dancefloor (with pole). One girl didn't get any money... Then the costumers can order private lapdances.
Jenny and I left Max and the Italians inside to smoke a cigarette which gave me the opportunity to actually talk to some of the girls - some were smoking outside too. They were not very attractive, I suppose and not very bright, but they were nice and very informative. Apparently they don't get paid by the club, but just earn the money the costumers give them (for the dancing and tips and such) and of that they have to give half up to the club. Still it's apparently a good job to do on the side for the money but none of the girls seemed to like the job. In the club it's just dancing, there's no prostitution involved and touching the girls isn't even allowed. In most cases.
Because at a certain point Max came out of the club wanting to leave because the bad ass Italian bit a girl in her ass and tried to do something else too. He was sure they would be thrown out. This girl came out a bit later for a smoke. She seemed a bit upset, mostly because the management of the club decided to let the Italians stay a bit longer on account of the fact that they were 'old school Italian guys who don't speak English'. The girls seemed angry because of the Italians didn't even give her a tip after this. It was all a bit confusing, so Max and I drove back to RAID.
