I’m a singer and while I’m singing I’m also observing what’s happening with my audience. Who’s digging it, who’s disinterested, who’s arriving, who’s leaving. It entertains me and keeps me in touch with my audience.
Last night three very drunk women showed up at the beginning of our last set. I had seen them earlier and they had left (we’re playing currently at a very large, very expensive resort hotel in the lobby lounge) and now they were back and they were drunk. Literally stumbling drunk.
At one point two of them decided to get up and dance. It’s not a pretty sight, two very, very drunk women, fairly attractive, who looked to be in their 40s, trying to get all sexy and provocative and yet missing the mark by a mile because they were blotto. (They fell into the piano at one point) They were the center of attention while they were dancing and as soon as they stopped dancing the vultures descended.
One guy in particular gave me the creeps. Something about they way he approached was very predatory in nature. He sat down next to one of the drunk women and I could hear him introduce himself. She had this look on her face like she was way too drunk to be having fun and was somewhere between passing out and throwing up. That didn’t dissuade this romeo, in fact, I’m fairly certain he saw her as an easy mark. He paid me $20 to play “something slow and sexy” and they slow danced (or more like he dragged her around the dance floor as she was barely able to walk let along dance).
Their slow dance was our last song for the night and we were starting to pack up. He was sitting very close to her with his arm around her and she looked very much like she didn’t want to be there. I had this sinking feeling that the evening was going to turn out badly for her, especially if he was involved. It looked like her two friends were going to leave her with the sleaze bag.
We packed our gear and left. They were all still sitting there. I’ll probably never know what happened but I really hope that she didn’t go back to that guy’s room or if she did she was sober enough to make an conscious choice about it or better yet I hope she puked on him.