I can still remember dancers and waitresses at Rick's calling me:
are you coming in tonight?
I would reply: I am between paychecks. Don't have but a few bucks to my name.
Their reply: I don't care about that. I enjoy your company.
Being a Realtor at the time, 3 of them even had me find them houses and townhouses to buy and 2 of them had me find them rental townhouses.
That's just from me going to Rick's, being a nice guy, talking to them, and them knowing me to trust me to use my services as a Real Estate agent and to trust me with their personal affairs.
I wasn't rich. I didn't tip a ton of money when I went in for lunch for their $5.95 T-Bone steak and baked potato lunch special and a couple of drinks. Total tab was not even $20 at the time. The longneck beers were like $2 each. I would tip the waitresses $10 and they were happy to get that.
So many dancers and waitresses would sit with me for hours and I didn't give them any $ or buy them a drink or anything off the club's menu.
They even invite me over to their house/apartment on the weekend and make me lunch.
One of them named Terri from Rick's in 1988, I still remember she made me pot roast.
To this day is still the best pot roast I ever had.
The dancer at The Men's Club in 1994 that I mentioned in my previous post that wanted to marry me, I would go in for lunch and she will come sit with me.
She would sit with me for the duration I was there for lunch: sometimes 3-4 hours and I never got any dances from her or bought her anything more than one drink.
I would constantly tell her don't you need to go make some money? I don't want to keep you.
But nope, she would sit with me and we talked about everything and she never asked me for any $ for her time and I never gave her any.
She trusted me too. There was a Chase Manhattan bank near the Men's Club right at the corner of Sage and Richmond and she will give me her earnings for the past couple of days or the previous week, all cash, and ask me to go deposit it for her:
it was always a couple of $1000 or more.
Then I asked her out one day and she said yes and we went out for over a year: all I did was paid for the dates, never paid her for her time or by the hour like the dancers nowadays want.
She wanted to marry me but I didn't want to but we had fun and we had a lot of sex.