2-24-2000

Since I'm talking about birthday's I'm gonna share about my 21st one.

I think I can probably remember every birthday after 15. I remember 13. Everything before that is a blur. Which is why parents need to stop spending all this money on their kids birthdays. But anyway.

I was the only with a car. One friend already cancelled on the festivities because she was studying for the MCAT. She's an OB/GYN now so that was time well spent. My roommate is like "Okay get dressed, you are driving." (Of course I am because I'm the only one with a car, duh)

So we get dressed and get in the car. She is directing me. I don't know where we are going. They blind fold me and direct me out of the car. We end up at this club in Bad News. We go inside (for free). We go up stairs. (I'm still blindfolded) I'm waiting for people to jump out screaming or something. We sit down and they remove the blindfold. People are handing paper, I later realize its money. Off goes the blindfold. We are in front of what looks like a boxing ring. More friends come out of the woodworks. I really didn't think I had that many friends but I guess it was just that they were all there together. Everyone is giggling and I'm in the middle of it all. Its early, like 8pm. Dumb me still doesn't get what is about to take place. I'm like "why are they giving me money? 3 dollars for my birthday? Thanks....I guess. Then the music starts....

And the strippers come out. Y'all I was not ready. The first one hands me some kind of gel stuff to squirt on him which I politely oblige. I gingerly rubbed it on him. Camera's are snappin. There is a pic somewhere of me with the stripper. Then this other one comes out and since I'm the guest of honor I get the lap dance. Well I sit and he gyrates in front of me. Its weird because we are like the only women in the club but its like they knew we were coming, thanks to my roommate. A few more minutes and its over. I gave out the money but I really wanted to keep it. (Hey I was a broke student!) We hang around. One of the strippers who I guess is also a manager is trying to persuade us to stay. I think he his feeling me but I don't like men with long blonde hair. He says they are doing a money drop later. Whoo hoo. But if we stay, everyone but me would have to pay to get back in because I was the only one who was 21. So we went back to campus. And everyone in the dorm seemed to know where we had been. Fun Times. My mom sent me a monogrammed bathrobe. And I got phone calls from people I hadn't heard from in years. It was a big deal that I was turning 21.