# What is a striper service? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541 "2012-09-12T21:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![core\_dump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@core\_dump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/core_dump)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/1 "2012-09-12T21:09:34Z")
I was going through my local rural paper and came across this advertisement for Tracy’s Striper Service. I will spare you the details but she got awfully upset with me on the phone. Now what on earth is a striping service? ---
**Author:** ![FrankJBN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@FrankJBN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrankJBN)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/2 "2012-09-12T21:12:05Z")
Often it is a company that paints stripes in parking lots and on streets. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/3 "2012-09-12T21:18:51Z")
This explains that really disappointing bachelor party I once went to. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/4 "2012-09-12T21:19:27Z")
> [@FrankJBN](#): > > Often it is a company that paints stripes in parking lots and on streets. If you need your parking lot painted, do not call Cherry from the Yellow Pages like I did once. She charges by the minute, dresses completely inappropriately for manual labor, and can’t paint a straight line to save her life. ---
**Author:** ![core\_dump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@core\_dump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/core_dump)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/5 "2012-09-12T21:44:26Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > If you need your parking lot painted, do not call Cherry from the Yellow Pages like I did once. She charges by the minute, dresses completely inappropriately for manual labor, and can’t paint a straight line to save her life. Cherry, meet Tracy. Well all I can say is, I’m sure as he\*\* not gonna pay what that woman was wanting just to paint lines on no damn parkin’ lot! I mean I knew I was getting into the devil, but this is unreal. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/6 "2012-09-12T21:49:13Z")
So when you called Tracy, did you ask her how much to do the whole street, or did you just want her to do a quick job in the car park outside the office? ---
**Author:** ![core\_dump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@core\_dump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/core_dump)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/7 "2012-09-12T22:27:53Z")
See, this is just the kinda thing I’m talking about… I called her up again, impersonating a fat guy: “Tracy’s, can I help you?” “Yeay, I need some striping maam, I think” “How many square feet, sir” “Huh? Oh hold on I’ll check. (Billy, fetch me that tape!)” “_line dead_” Somebody on here has NOT beed nice to them! I don’t believe for a second that parking los are gonna cause all this. Not for ONE second. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/8 "2012-09-12T22:28:51Z")
Aren’t those the people who volunteer in hospitals and walk around bringing you snacks and water and stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Docta\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Docta\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Docta_G)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/9 "2012-09-12T22:42:52Z")
It’s a lot like a Lapp dance. ---
**Author:** ![core\_dump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@core\_dump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/core_dump)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/10 "2012-09-12T23:04:08Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Aren’t those the people who volunteer in hospitals and walk around bringing you snacks and water and stuff? AHhhh, you have have it right there. “Pops” I don think they’ve done that since dubya-dubya II? I like your style though, and I like the cig chicks. ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/11 "2012-09-12T23:10:08Z")
> [@Docta\_G](#): > > It’s a lot like a Lapp dance. Lapp dancing is quite repetitive, very Sami. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/12 "2012-09-13T02:57:48Z")
[Fishing guides, of course!](http://www.stripers247.com/striped-bass-fishing-guides.php) ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/13 "2012-09-14T19:54:05Z")
> [@core\_dump](#): > > I called her up again, impersonating a fat guy How does one do that exactly? Breathe heavily as though you just tied your shoe? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/14 "2012-09-14T19:55:59Z")
First thought - Fishing guides. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/15 "2012-09-14T20:00:45Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > How does one do that exactly? Breathe heavily as though you just tied your shoe? He crunches Doritos into the phone as he’s breathing heavily. What, you never get crank calls? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/16 "2012-09-14T20:07:50Z")
I’m sorry, the preferred munchies of fat guys is now Cheetos. I read it in my friend’s newsletter. Not that I am fat. I just proofread it for him. We send out dittos of it using this really cool automated mailing list that addresses the envelopes for you. So, not Doritos, but Cheetos. Just a gentle correction. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/17 "2012-09-14T20:26:30Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > I’m sorry, the preferred munchies of fat guys is now Cheetos. > I read it in my friend’s newsletter. > Not that I am fat. > I just proofread it for him. > We send out dittos of it using this really cool automated mailing list that addresses the envelopes for you. > > So, not Doritos, but Cheetos. > > Just a gentle correction. I appreciate your gentle correction. How can one tell the difference audibly? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/18 "2012-09-15T01:15:45Z")
It’s the name on the ad created by the independent, ambitious stripper who has decided to go her own way and branch out from the club scene. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/19 "2012-09-15T01:18:56Z")
It involves illiterate tits. Seriously, though, it’s a pavement marking company. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541/20 "2012-09-15T01:48:23Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > **What is a striper service?** > > It’s the name on the ad created by the independent, ambitious stripper who has decided to go her own way and branch out from the club scene. No, that would be **Striper Service’s**. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-striper-service/634541.md?page=2)