So I would drive around to the cardrooms, and sleep in the parking lot or out by the Pacific Ocean, and then go in there when people were ready to lose money. Club Madonna on Washington Avenue in South Beach was similar. There were girls who came from out of town and needed to work a shift to make some quick money. So they would go in there and make money for a few hours, when the guys who didn't get lucky in the bars showed up drunk at like 3 :00 AM Saturday morning. Meeting strippers was a filn and easy activity for me. Club Madonna in South Beach was the perfect place for it. There were always girls from out of town passing through. Whatever guys they were attached to were back in New York or Tampa or Moscow. They were in vacation mode, looking to have some fiin. They wanted a place to stay for free, and I was in the perfect location. The only thing is when I told them I didn't have any weed, and I had no plans or connections to get any, sometimes they would have a quick change of heart. "Can we come stay with you? Do you have weed?" No. "Ummmm... never mind." It took an average of six months in Club Madonna to find a girl whose appearance was acceptable to me. To make the process more efficient, I learned that I could see 80% of the new girls who would work in the club in a given week, by going for just 30 minutes before closing on Friday and Saturday night. Good-looking strippers are lazy and don’t usually work two days in a row. So by going on two consecutive nights, I could catch most of them. Luckily Club Madonna did not have a day shift. A lot of guys show up at bars early. The meet some pretty girl and buy her drinks for four hours. Then right at closing the girls ditch them. So I used to wake up at 4AM and walk down Ocean Drive, and meet pretty girls coming out of the bars drunk after some other guy spent all the money. The later you show up, the less time and money you have to spend to hang out with a girl after closing. Strippers aren't even allowed to leave before the end of the shift. So every hour you show up before closing, is an hour you will have to spend money until you can even meet the girl at a diner or something. If you meet them right before closing and they see you are generous or have money, they will want some extra time to try to make money off you. And they won’t know until closing if they had a bad night, and need a sugar daddy for a day. After about four years, I moved away from Club Madonna south of fifth street. I had to drive and park, to spend 30 minutes at Club Madonna before closing. It occurred to me if I was driving anyway, I could go to multiple strip clubs. Club Madonna usually had like 25 girls. If I also drove to Gold Rush with 30 girls, and Beach House with 20 girls, I could see 75 girls in one night. In theory, instead of taking six months to fmd a pretty girl, I could see three times as many girls and find one every two months. I hadn't yet learned there are some clubs where no pretty girls ever work, given any amount of time. So I started driving around to more and more strip clubs, and staying just long enough at each one to get a look at every girl. The strip clubs try to mingle the guys and girls by offering a two-for-one lapdance every hour. Every girl in the club has to stop what she is doing, and go down the runway in a line for the guys to pick one. That is usually your chance to verify you have seen every girl there. If there are no pretty ones, then you can leave. I began to learn that other strip clubs weren’t as open as Club Madonna. They were local, it was the same girls every week. The girls were unfriendly and at times violent to new pretty girls coming in and applying. They were more tightly managed. The managers weren’t open to girls coming in and freelancing. They didn't want a girl from Atlanta to just come in and work for a day, just take the customers numbers and then go meet them at a hotel. (There is a club near the airport for that, where they just charge girls $75 to enter.) The girls themselves were less free spirits at other strip clubs. They weren't new in town, unattached, or on vacation like at Club Madonna. They were more often local single moms who needed a steady paycheck. They were older and not as good looking. They developed and refined mean and hard-nosed tactics, to trick old guys out of their money week after week. One day I had just done my usual routine of looking at every girl in Club Madonna right before closing, and walking out with no interest. I was getting into my car which was parked in the street right in front of the main II-l4