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October 1, 2009 · 9:46 AM

My friend’s turning 21, and when that happens — look out

By Justice

My friend’s 21st birthday is this week. She is currently a stripper in an all-nude club because she is still under 21. When the day comes and the law permits, I will be helping her transition into the world of alcohol and unremoved G-strings. I can’t wait. We’ll wear matching wigs and obnoxious neon costumes. Maybe we’ll do a good cop/bad cop routine or some other partner-ly antics.

If my memory serves me, I believe I met her randomly in an online eating disorder community. We both coincidentally went to the same high school and happened to know a few of the same people. We had about as much of an eating disorder as any teenage girl had, but we ended up having a lot of other things in common. It’s hard to be an angry teenage girl, consumed in self-obsession and personal scrutiny. It’s easier with friends.

She lived with her mom and step dad when we first started hanging out. He is a doctor and they had this giant house on the hill by a golf course. It was all glass and creamy cappucino colors and had too many garages inside a huge driveway. It had a bright green lawn where rabbits would sometimes hop around. It looked so beautiful in the rich colors of the Las Vegas sunset, when night was hiding over the hills and I was about to kidnap my teenage friend and take her to my place in a less prestigious part of town. I drove through the long winding bowels of roads inside her gated community to pick her up. Her mom thought I was a good influence, because I had to learn to present myself that way, while in reality I was helping my little friend become a stripper.

She looked like some kind of punk-rock cupcake, I recall, when I came to pick her up. She wore little torn black band t-shirts, puffy pastel tea-party skirts and her hair was always short, messy and a slightly different color every time I saw her.

I don’t spend enough time with her anymore. In Las Vegas, there is a hard line drawn between the activities allowed for people under and over 21. I’m excited to show her around on the side where the grass is greener. We’re going to be unstoppable.

5 Comments So Far

Mmmm i cant believe there are no dancers under 21 at clubs not all nude ?

Is it really that impossible justice or is it faisable ?

Ur take ?

I mean considerign all the non legal aliens u meet in a club with fake ids and or not even legal in teh usa id say yes ?

Happy bday !

Posted by: natkingcolebasket on 10/1/09 at 11:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)

You have to be 21 to realize the responsibility that comes when wearing the g-string, which apparently is the mark of adulthood in Nevada. So much for "a woman's right to control her own body.: Take that, Harry Blackmun!

Posted by: rrbill on 10/1/09 at 3:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)

natkingcolebasket:

Now when did I say that any of the girls with whom I work are illegal aliens? I just said that there are a lot of foreigners.
As for working under 21 at a non-nude club, it is possible but very very difficult. You need two forms of ID (one of which requires a police background check) and a business license. You get fingerprinted by the club and I believe they send the police department a report of who is working there. That being said, I've of heard of it happening anyway.

rrbill:

I want to be on the side of women's rights but I think this is a different issue. When there is alcohol involved, I think all the extra panties are for everyone's protection.
And I think a little mystery is way sexier.

=)

Posted by: Justice_4_all on 10/1/09 at 7:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)

My friend, George S. Patton, fortuitously converged in Berlin with me a few years back. With snifters of double malt and fresh-cut MONTECRISTO NO. 4's: Discussing game theory, he said, "always go on the offensive, never dig in." When I asked him about the existential nature of permanence, with utter conviction he replied "fixed fortifications are testament to the stupidity of Man." We closed on the topic of the vast field of deceits.
The favoured pro bono economic advisor-Mish-encouraged my thesis...
Gordan Brown-Elephant in the Room

Posted by: cypher on 10/1/09 at 9:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)

hi;

u havent but i just know of 3 girls who were illegaly ther doing it:
-1 student visa which doesnt allow u to work outside campus
-1czech which overstayed and shlldnt even be there
-1 fake wedding :)

al that at the infamous crazy horse II,was just wondering how they got the license:)
i thought a license allows u to work in different places anyways hard to track i guess!
xo
seb

Posted by: natkingcolebasket on 10/1/09 at 10:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)

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