Showing posts with label people watching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people watching. Show all posts

Friday, October 10, 2008

Pit stop from the past....

The club is the best place to people watch. Mildly coaxed by my brothers we went to a new spot tonight. New to me as the last time I did clubs in Columbia is when I managed one. I really didn’t feel the forcefully festive atmosphere but everyone else pretended to so I did as well. We had a typical man night. Drank with the fellas, looked at those who wanted/tried to be looked at, bobbed my head to songs I knew, pretended to know songs I didn’t while bobbing my head.

Changes:

  • Daisy Duke’s and low cut blouses replaced by dresses that flow at the top and are tight at the bottom. Kind of a combination.
  • Record players replaced by CDJ’s w/ the addition of a laptop.
  • Expensive liquor in dispensers instead of free pour
  • Women more openly talking to and harassing (as evidenced by the woman standing next to me having her butt double palmed by a passing woman) other women

Same:

  • Music is still played in sets. New, recent, old, old school, reggae, regional (dirty south in this case), night ends with a slow music set although rap lyrics over R&B beats don’t quite equal a slow jam to me.
  • Men will buy a woman a drink then follow her around the rest of the night.
  • Women travel in packs and dance together dissuading men from asking.
  • The larger the group of the woman pack the sexier they dress.
  • Winding and grinding still appear to be the dances of choice
  • I still don’t dance

Good to catch up with friends in a familiar place but not where I wanted to be. The road is calling.