My StripClub years are far behind me, but how it happened to me was like that...
First of all, i wouldn't get approach much on a busy night, because i don't look like a guy with a lot of money, as some of you know, and i can't blame them. Would i have the choice of going for a 40 y.o dude in a suit or a 23 years old in a hoodie, i would take the suit myself... i know more money will probably comes out. Didn't changed much when i was either with friends or by myself. BUT when i got back there a couple times with Pat and Bob a year ago or so, strippers where coming much much more to chat, either because they knew more money could be made because of the more mature look of them, or maybe just because they knew they where regulars :lol:
But when one would come to talk with me, if i did not intended to take a dance i would tell her almost right away, right after saying hi , how are you. I didn't wanted to make her lost her time and to be totally honest i have no interest in awkward conversations, wich seem to be most of the time the case. I mean if a girl is very good at "promoting herself" she may find something to say and engage nicely, but on how many ocasion did one sit with me and we basically didn't say a word for 1 min before she decided to move on... Now thats only me but i had interest in taking her to dance from the get go(look to my liking) i would take her right away, i had no interest in conversating ...
It did happen tough on a couple ocasion on very slow night a girl would come by, i would tell her im not interest in dances and she would ask me to sit anyway, wich i say ok... lol. Usually they are the one with good marketing skills and it happened a few times she actually made me want to go in the booth with her just because she had a great personality and was a fun girl, even if at first look she wasn't my type or i prefered to keep my money for another one.
Its important to realize i used to go there mostly before i even saw an escort ever, so to me it was always about "enter, choose the hottest, take dance, leave" and keeping the beer count at only 1 to save all the $ for the stripper. On rare ocasions i got with friends and spent more time, but it was usually a solo activity i would do like when i saw escort those past years... Wich i know is not the case for most people.
Also i realized something else over the year, if they see you take dances, they will aproach you much more, thinking "ok that guy came for dances" and they think they have a chance, contrary to a dude who just want to hang there for the show or with friends and drinking beers.
Also if you hang out late... they would eventually try there last chance around 2:30 or so, thinking they have nothing to loose. I remember once with pat and bob, there was like 4 of them that came to me one after the other very late because i came back from the booth. One was even pissed i said no... lol (the only time i took booth dances after seeing an escort, and i took only 2)
Anyway, so basically never did it cross my mind to pay them for talking... if they want to stay and talk, its there choice, and i let them know my intentions(or lack of) to take dances or not, so its up to them...