Jenny and I had been friends since junior high. We've had "friend sex," but never really dated in any formal sense.
Elaine, her secretary, called me about a little get-together that she was putting together the week before Jenny's wedding. She wanted some advice and help.
Jenny was 33 and worked as a buyer for a clothes outlet. Successful, pretty and fun, she never had to "search" for a husband. But she fell head over heals for Glenn, an attorney in Houston, and decided to make the plunge.
I told Elaine that a gaggle of her girlfriends, plenty of booze and maybe a male stripper would make Jenny happy. Elaine agreed, and asked for my help in finding a stripper. I called a friend of mine who ran a gentlemen's club, and he gave me a name of a guy who performed at these kind of functions.
I gave Elaine all the information and told her that the male stripper would arrive about 9:00 p.m. at the suite they had rented at the Four Seasons in Houston. Glenn's dad had rented several limos for the wedding, and one of them agreed to pick up the stripper and me, wait at the hotel, and maybe take the girls out if they wanted to hit a few clubs.
The limo driver went out to Sugar Land, about 30 miles from downtown Houston, to pick up the entertainment. The deposit was in my name and on my credit card, and when the doorbell went unanswered, he called me. I told him to wait for a while, then call me back if they guy didn't come to the door.
About an hour went by, and the limo driver called me back. The client wasn't there. What should he do?
My house in the Memorial section of town was undergoing mold repair, so I told him to come pick me up at the condo I was leasing inside the 610 loop in Houston. In the meantime, I started scanning the Houston Press, an "alternative weekly" publication in search of someone who could perform for the girls on short notice. I had several (I think were answering services) pick up the phone, but nothing really developed. So when the limo driver arrived, I got in the car with my list of phone numbers and leads and headed to the hotel.
My cell phone didn't ring on the short ride over, so I went up to the room (actually a pretty large suite) and Jenny starting teasing me. "Are you trying to tell me that out of the millions of guys here, no one would come and show his dick to us?" Well, I told her, I guess I had failed.
"Then you will be our entertainment!" she yelled.
I laughed along with the Jenny's (pretty drunk) friends, but then Jenny seemed to get serious.
"Give us a strip show," she demanded, in what seemed like a serious tone.