Deja Vu Strangeness

With Morley back in town and a free Saturday night, we decided to get back to business. Sure, we'd end up at Deja Vu but where would we go beforehand? Blue Zebra? Godfathers on Sepulveda?

No, no other place called us. We went to Deja Vu and got there about 8:30. We were among the few guests and even fewer dancers. Strange - no Never Tame, no Charms...wait, Sadie and Nikki were there.

We settled in knowing that things wouldn't pick up until about 10.

10:00. Dead. The DJ kept apologizing for the slowness and offering "free" passes to make up for it. At the roll call there were 5 dancers.

11:00. The place was crowded and the number of dancers increased three-fold. Better but the vibe was way off. We left soon after.

What was strange was the lack of energy. None of the high flyer pole dancers like Never Tame or Schwinn were there to get the audience worked up. Nikki gave it her best shot - three times - but her repertoire isn't the "A" level.

Strange was a new (?) dancer we had not seen before. Watching her "dance" was like watching a slow motion train wreck. Simply, she couldn't dance at all. Zero, nada. Her "routine" consisted of walking slowly around a pole 1 to 3 times then moving to another pole. She walked in a daze and I hazard to guess why.
We couldn't figure out why she:

was working at DJV when her skills weren't up to any standards.

was getting money thrown at her when a dancer like August with slightly higher skills and on-stage persona got zero action.

Yet she was so, say, "inexperienced" you couldn't help but watch.

Strange was a gentleman who sat at the stage front and center with seemingly oodles of money to "rain" on the dancers. Maybe he was a shill but he threw wads of singles - 50 at a time - at about 3, 4 dancers in a row before leaving. One dancer - a pornstar whose name escapes me - received about $300 in flying singles. Morley and I must deeply thank this gentleman for his effusive tossing of bills since quite a few didn't land on the stage and instead landed near us.

No, we didn't take his money. However the waitresses would help pick up these errant solos. The views were most encouraging.

To end the strange, slow night, we have to give a special thanks to two waitresses who made the evening very enjoyable: Rachel and Gabrielle. Thank you and thank you. We've said this before and we stand by what we wrote: the waitresses at Deja Vu are more entertaining than the majority of dancers.