Growing up where I did in Mississippi didn't offer many opportunities. I worked fast food jobs in high school and hated them. High school itself didn't offering me much more since I barely coasted through. When I turned 18 in 2004 I started working at
Spank Your Spurs
, the hottest line dancing bar around.
At first I had a problem with wearing a tight top and short skirt for work, especially sporting double Ds! But the tips rolled in and I soon learned to flaunt what I got to make more!
The men there were relentless and sexy! The things they said had me so hot and bothered that I could barely make it through a shift. I got a lot of action!
As the years went on it all became old hat. So many tired lines and too many used condoms with nothing to show for it. I still played it up for the tips, but going home alone became more and more normal for me. Soon enough no guys crossed the threshold of my lonely little house, and I didn't cross theirs either.
Now I'm 24 and I'm still working at
Spurs
. I still love watching and of course participating in the dancing, but it's getting harder and harder to fake my way through all of the cat calls and come-ons.
The constant pawing is getting old, too. None of the guys who frequent the place seem to have had a good mother. The drunker they get, the bolder they get. I can't tell you how many times a guy tried to pull my panties down from under my skirt! That's if I'm lucky they just go for my panties!
My tits have eyes, or at least I'm starting to believe that! It's so rare for anyone, man or woman, to look me in the face anymore. Put five women in a lineup with me with similar breasts and I'd walk because the witness couldn't identify my face. Can you blame me if I say I'm getting depressed from being used?
So tonight when I came into work I couldn't control it. I can't smile anymore. I just can't face another day! My best friend Haley assures me that it'll be a good night as she always does; I just don't believe her this time. She tells me to put on a smile and fake it to make it!
I put on a half smile like I'm told and walk out into the bar. It's early but it's filling up fast. Friday nights mean a packed house and not enough room for all the dancers. It also means great tips if I can get the sex crazed patrons to fall all over me. Oh boy.
I sling suds and get the rest drunk quicker with liquor while getting felt up as usual. Ugh, another typical night dragging me down! A guy sits down at a small table and I go to serve him. I don't recognize him so I take a deep breath and speak.
"Welcome to
Spank Your Spurs
! What can I getcha hun?"
This guy sits up a little straighter, takes off his hat, and happily looks me in the eyes saying, "I'd appreciate a bottle of beer, ma'am."
"Coming right up!" I stop at a couple of tables to get more orders along the way to the bar, soon returning to the new guy. He's still looking me in the eyes. "Here ya are, hun." I say putting down the bottle and a bowl of peanuts.
"Thank you ma'am." He pays me and gives me a $5 tip.
"Anything else?" I ask
He shakes his head. "No ma'am, not until I finish this one."
"I'll be back soon to check on ya hun!" I say putting my hand on his forearm and walking away.
I go about my business, eventually coming back to him. He's still looking me in the eyes and is so polite it almost hurts. In a bar full of perverts it's nice to find a gentleman. I wonder what's wrong with him?
Each night I work he comes in and takes a table in my section. Each night he's courteous, generous, and looks me in my eyes. If I see him from across the bar he's always looking me in the eyes, nodding and tipping his beer. It takes me several nights before I ask him his name: Ethan. Other than that the conversation doesn't change much.
Every night for about three weeks this is what happens. Every night he has me wondering. Every night I need to know more.
Tonight is no different, except that it's a Monday and the bar is very slow as usual and I'm working for another gal who's out sick. He sits down and our familiar patter starts.
"Good evenin' hun! Bottle of beer as usual?"
"I'd appreciate it, ma'am," he says smiling into my eyes.
I make it to the bar and Haley comes up beside me. "Have you figured that guy out yet?"
I shake my head. "No. He's still the same super polite guy."
"Ask him!"
I shake my head. "I can't. He's such a good tipper!"
Haley puts her hand on my shoulder. "Isbell, dear, he won't let anyone else wait on him." She pats my back. "There's something there. Ask him."
I nod and take the beer and peanuts back to him. "Here you are, Ethan!"
"Thank you, ma'am." He gives me the money for the beer and a $10 tip.
"Isbell. You know you can call me that."
"Yes ma'am," he says smiling deep into my eyes.
I frown a bit and think that Haley's right. "Can we talk?" He nods. "May I sit?" I ask following his polite way.
"Please," he says standing up and pulls out the stool near me.
"Thank you," I say sitting down. "I'm wondering..." I pause seeing him looking at my face with rapt attention. "You come in here every night and always take one of my tables. You're always so polite to me."
"Yes ma'am," he nodded.
"All the other guys in the place are so... What I'm asking is... do you like girls?"