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Mako's - Orlando

Joy and I went out on the town this weekend with another couple... to Mako's - Orlando. We were invited by Karl (a friend of mine from Middle and High School) and Annie, his current girlfriend.

Now, when we were invited to go do this we were told that we'd be going downtown to a club to go dancing. Yea! We've been talking about going out together to go dancing again some Saturday night for the last two weeks. This seemed like a perfect opportunity.

We were duped.

This club wasn't really a dancing club. Well, there was dancing going on, and even a few of the patrons were dancing, but they were up on a stage dancing. They were exclusively women who were removing their outwear, underwear, whatever... just not quite getting naked in any way.

There were also the Mako's B*tches and there was a Mako's swing B*tch and bartendresses... all dancing and gyrating and whatnot. This place was tiny and packed. There weren't even 100 people in the club, but it was very difficult to move around. In fact, impossible without rubbing up against some damp and not-very-dressed staff member or club patron. Joy and I were well dressed and thinking that we were going to dance, but this is a place for getting drunk, looking at women who are a mid-step between WingHouse/Hooters and actual strippers, becoming one of those women yourself for a night, and/or watching all this happen.

Oh, there were also body shots of all kinds happening... navel shots on the bar... cleavage shots (is that what those are called?) out on the floor and probably other body shots, but Joy had me avert my eyes from some of the sights. Some of the Mako's girls were up on the bar dancing around, but this wasn't really dancing. It was actually more of just standing there, knees bent, thighs flexed, butt dropped down, back facing the crowd, and hips moving side to side.

While we were in the club we got down in the center stage area and danced for a little while, but people were making comments about us, and eventually Joy wanted to leave. I suppose different people have different thoughts on what is acceptable. We obviously didn't think that what was happening at the club was cool, and some people were pretty shocked with how intimately we were dancing -- it was like we "needed to get a room." ("Hello!?! We're married! We've got a room." Joy would say.) After one dance Joy said she was ready to go whenever I was, so I told her I wanted to at least see the rest of the club. So, we went upstairs so I could be sure that I wasn't missing out on the actual dancing area or "the point of the club."

We saw a whole lot more on our way out than we had seen on our way in. The funny thing is that it was really hard to move around because of all the bodies. I was wanting to get through and I was leading the way, but Joy would keep shoving me to move because it wasn't fast enough for her taste. She was obviously uncomfortable with me seeing so much of all these girls, but she was litterally pushing me into them at the same time.

Well, we made it out of the club and decided to walk down the street a little ways. I had to use the restroom, but there really weren't any to be found, so we walked up into this courtyard area of the SunTrust Center downtown. Joy stood next to me so this cop couldn't see me relieving myself on one of the bushes. After that we sat at a table and talked for a while and enjoyed the cool breeze and looked at the beautiful buildings and all their extravagance.

The next day I decided to look up the club's name on google to see if I could have had any forewarning for Joy about the place through the Internet. Sure enough, I found their site -- http://www.anythinggoesatmakos.com/home.html and some other sites that discussed and described the club.

So Joy and I decided that it was an interesting experience. We definately learned to ask about the club in more detail AND GET THE CLUB NAME before we go so we can look it all up online and make sure it's where we actually want to go.

Joy is here now contributing to this entry, and she wants me to include some things that she is concerned I might forget.
1. Karl had been to Mako's before, but did not enjoy his experience.
2. In fact, Karl feels so uncomfortable in the club that he claims to need to preparty to drunkenness just to prepare himself.
3. Joy really really enjoyed getting to meet Annie and watch Annie and Karl together. "They're so great!" she says over and over again.
4. Joy says that she felt quite violated in this club, but she was glad that we went and had a new experience, and even more glad that we promptly left.
5. This is already mentioned above, but before I decided to make this Joy section Joy asked me to write about the girls dancing up on the bar. So that sentence was Joy-inspired.

Posted by David at June 13, 2005 03:24 PM