In the times of Pre-COVID, Thanksgiving Eve was, perhaps, the busiest drinking night of the year.
“Drinksgiving” is Thanksgiving Eve. On this Wednesday, it is one of the busiest drinking day of the year, including in a strip club. On this Wednesday, the club will be open extra hours with all shifts available for the girls to work. The schedule line up will be filled with girls working a ”double” trying to reap the benefit of a busy bar. Similar to St. Patrick’s Day, it will be filled with all sorts of daytime drinkers.
On this day, travelers from all over returns home to reunite with family members, and college students returning home to meet up with hometown friends. I have danced for so long that I have seen customers move far away & years later to return on this day. This is a great day to reminisce and flirt about your history. It’s always fun to hear their updates on how much life has changed. Expect to see distant travelers as well as the same local faces that are there on every holiday.
Plan to have a busy day and evening on this day. I give credit to the ladies that can work a double shift! A double shift is 12 hours+ (open to close.) It’s a talent to dance that long in those sky-high heels as well as keeping your spirit high and energy up as you try to pace your drinking, while encountering and greeting myriad guests visiting the club on this day.
The key to being able to work a double shift is to moderate the day drinking. If you start drinking at noontime, the end of the day shift can be your demise! You don’t want to be too drunk by the beginning of thrnight shift! The night shift is expected to be even busier than the day shift because of it being a national holiday tomorrow. I have only worked the night shifts knowing to prepare my energy for its wildly busy evening.
On this Wednesday, there will be food, special cocktails, and a festive theme to help the guests come in to celebrate “Friendsgiving.”
As of a few years ago, recreational marijuana became legal in my state. “Drinksgiving” now is also “Green Wednesday,” for the marijuana tribe users. This day consists of swapping, sharing, and enjoying creative marijuana edibles and treats. You can always tell which group of girls are the pot-head dancers, they are the ones that seems to be most “chill.” If you look close enough, you can observe the profound difference in energy level of girls in various groups, such as the amphetamine group of girls, the zombie junk bags, the head-med prescription dopes, and the hot mess alcoholics. The weed smokers are the most relaxed of the bunch with a sense of humor.
I use to never go out “for a smoke.” I don’t smoke cigarettes, but for the girls that do, they will normally congregate together when it’s time for their cigarette breaks. Only 3 at a time! Or else there would be too many girls outside smoking and not on the floor working. I finally saw what this ”break” was all about when I started to venture out to smoke my joint. This outside space is another space for more locker room talk, and chatters about customer relations and issues. A break from the inside environment, where there is a moment of solitude, fresh air, no loud music, no customers. Something about the fresh air (obviously away from the 2nd hand smoke) that resets the mind and mood. I would observe the fidgety cigarette smoker, the weed smoker, as well as the double fisters; smoking cigarettes in one hand while smoking a joint in the others, and usually accompanied by a large ice coffee that is set on the ground because they have no hands left.
Today is as much of a special day for you and your regular customers. It’s not just another holiday to celebrate together in the club, but it is the day to give thanks, although you should give thanks every day. I had a few regulars customers where it is a priority to delegate time for these special men. It’s a time to be thankful for all the time and money spent throughout the entire year. We have spent the year sharing laughs and turmoils, morale boosts and support, Birthdays, and other holiday events that have become part of your scheduled routine. It’s a day to show gratitude for how loyal your customers have been to you year-round.
This Wednesday is a precursor to a busy rest of the year. Tomorrow the club will be closed and you’ll have a day to spend with your family, knowing the club will expect you to be just as punctual for the club’s reopening on the following busy Black Friday. The club will open early again for all those shoppers and the beginning of a long holiday weekend.
The club will be filled with shoppers, out-of-towners, the loners, the weekend worriers, and with the same people you usually see in the club. The shoppers usually like to do a pit stop at the club for a shopping intermission for a cold refreshment and some eye candy, maybe a conversation, and maybe a dance. Today, these men are especially ready to spend. That’s the holiday spirit! Shoppers will keep strolling in until about January time, even when doing returns will get a pit stop at the club as if it’s a watering hole and leaving their wives at the mall to shop. Try to catch the men that just return an item, these guys are sure likely there to spend that cash he just received.
2020 is the year that ended all this. 2020 is the year that shut down Strip clubS, bars, restricted travel, and significantly smaller social gathering. Of course, retailers still expect a busy outcome for the famous crazy Black Friday, however, the number will show that the turnout is significantly low this year, as for other industries.
The world is no longer the same as 20 years ago. This pandemic pretty much decimated the strip club industry.