I was on TV with a REALLY hot exotic dancer, in 1992.
I saw her about 10-12 times between October, 1992 and December, 1993, at a number of different GTA strip clubs. She only danced for me about 3/4 of one song, total, half of one song, and a quarter of another. It might well have been her first shift when I met her for the first time at
Fillmore's, where I used to play pool every so often. Back then, it was still $5 'air dances' on those wooden boxes, and only the
also ran dancers would approach men minding their own business to solicit short term employment. The hot girls in the club would be busy most of the time, and when they weren't, they'd walk quickly around the club, looking to make eye contact with a guy who wanted to make a silent bid.
So I saw this very hot young lady, pass my way, and I caught her attention. She was about 5'5" tall, probably, (legitimately), 32 or 33C-24-34 natural, long curly black hair to the small of her back, and a very pretty face; a
French and
Filipina true 'exotic' mix. So, she starts to dance the first song, and we're talking, and she gets so into the conversation that she just squats down on the box, so we're approximately on eye level. She puts her top back on after that song, and squats on the box again. About four songs later, she says "Oh, I guess I'm supposed to be dancing", and she starts again, but this time only for about a quarter of the song, before she's squatting and talking again. This went on for about an hour and a half, then she had to do her stage show, and she says "That was two songs, so I guess you owe me $10", and I told her she was selling herself short, and gave her $100.
We both liked
American Gladiators, and I saw the live tour in
Niagara Falls, New York with a buddy of mine from College who lived in that area, his girlfriend, and two of her friends. The next time I saw the dancer, (gap of about one month before/ two weeks after
AG), I told her about it, and she said "Why didn't you tell me? I would have totally gone with you", so I put that in the vault.
I knew she was a big fan of the
Pittsburgh Penguins, and they only played one or possibly two games in
Toronto in a season. One of those games was in early November, 1992. I called in a favour with my boss, who acquired the pair of tickets that were the season's tickets of one of our largest clients; first row Reds at
Maple Leaf Gardens, right on the blue line.
So, now I have the tickets. but I don't know where to find the girl, and I'm hitting three strip clubs a night for one drink at each. I finally find her at
Tony's East in Scarborough, which was/ is a lower scale establishment. So I see her, and ask her if she wants to go to the game, and she says sure, and I gave her her ticket, and we agreed to meet there.
So at the game, I'm sitting through most of the first period, and she hasn't shown up. with about five minutes left in the period, she arrives. She said that her two friends had to wait until the game was partially over for scalper's prices to drop to an amount they were willing to pay, and she negotiated for them. She was wearing her
Mario Lemieux game jersey, and I had on a light blue V neck sweater, which I said was the
"Ken Schinkel" 1967-68 shirt.
Back then, there was a dating show on Fox called
Studs. in which two guys would go on dates with three different girls, the girls would tell the show's writers about the dates, and they would reword events to sound sexually provocative, and the guys had to guess who said which, to get points towards winning a more valuable expenses-paid date with the lady of his choice,
if she also chose him. Each girl would write down 'Guy #1', 'Guy #2', or neither on a card, and if the guy who won the points round didn't pick a woman who also picked him, he got squat, just like in real life.
Mark De Carlo was host, and they did a parody of the show,
Amish Studs, on
The Ben Stiller Show, which aired for most of the fall of '92, opposite 'Football carryover', and
60 Minutes.
I had a bag of
pistachio nuts with me, that we shared, with me holding the bag of nuts in one hand, and both of us helping ourselves, so I said "You know, if we were on
Studs, they would say "One taste of his salty nuts, and I was eating out of the palm of his hand.", and she agreed.
So, anyway, when
Pittsburgh scored a goal,
Hockey Night in Canada used a crowd shot containing someone wearing a Penguins game shirt, and it was us. People at my work told me they saw me on TV, and her friends told her that as well, but neither group knew who the other person was, except her two friends who wore the
Paul Coffey and
Jagr shirts, but they didn't see it, because they were at the game, but sitting in worse seats.
After the game, we three went to the club that used to be on the north east corner of
Carleton & Church, across from where the
Loblaws is now. It's still a night club, I think, but not the same one.
Saw her again for several hours at
HOL Queensway the following month, in the room in the front; just us. I last spoke to her in January, 1993, the same day as
Bill Clinton's inauguration, when she called me at work. The last thing she said to me was "I'm thinking about getting a real job". She didn't want to keep dancing because she didn't mind if guys starred at her body, but she didn't want them pawing her.
In that era, the best time to go to a strip club was from about mid November to mid December, because some seriously hot women would only do that for a few weeks a year, to pay for
Christmas shopping, and winter vacations.