DAY 5 PART 5

“Andre, why are Jamaican strippers so lazy?”

These girls are barely moving around the stage and not only that there are 2 mirrors that are hovering on two sides
of the stage in which they fix their hair and stare at themselves while they dance.

I’m giggling. “Lazy Jamaican strippers? I don’t get it. You would think this would be WILD!”

Now before I get yelled at, I mean no disrespect here. In my alcohol induced state of mind what I meant was that the
dancing in Jamaica is no where near lazy and this is the less I’ve seen people move. Thinking back to my buddy Tito’s beach
bashment and the girl in the sand this is my mom’s two step compared to that.

“Manda, the guys that are here they are local regulars. They probably come in here have enough
money for one drink and maybe a little money for some sex. It’s not like Toronto where we throwin money at dem on da
stage. So why would de break der backs for nothin.”

“Ahhh that makes sense.”I now have this overwhelming urge to walk up to the stage and
give this girl some money. But Andre insists that I do not do this.

Jacko and Barber are now dancing up a storm as if they’re at their own party and no one notices the giant cement stage.
I haven’t danced much this trip I’ve sort of kept to myself and moved around. Andre is standing next to me and he see’s
me watching Jacko.

”Manda I know you want to dance, go dance.”

I take a shot of Wray and Nephew and this stuff that burned my throat 3 days ago is now like water to me. I jump in the
middle of Jack n Barber and break up their little battle and we’re all dancing together now. Andre joins us and the four of us
are just dancing havin fun and being silly. And then the music slows down and Jacko grabs my arm and pulls me toward Andre.

”You guys dance”

Why does this feel like when some guy pulls you out on to the gym floor of your grade 8 dance and you sort of stand there
facing each other looking at anything but each other. That last about 10 seconds before Andre starts grinding up against me,
he’s moved me to against the wall and grabs my arms and pins them up above my head. I look over at Jacko I’m sure at this
point I’m blushing and Jacko had the biggest grin on his face and I come back to focus on Andre because who the hell could
think about anything other than the way he’s pushed up against me. His face is close to mine and I can feel his breath and he
lets go of my arms and wraps his hands around my waist as I wrap mine around his and I’m lost I’m lost in him, the room is slightly
spinning and everyone but him is a blur.

When we were leaving the “club” I was one of the last ones out as I finished by beer and the girl #2 that was on stage was walking
past our car and back to the club but she had stopped and was saying something to Jacko in a bit of a heated tone. When I get
there she smiles at me and continues on to the bar.

“What was that all about?”

Andre, Barber and Jacko all start laughing.
“What did she try and proposition you guys?”

”Nahhh babes she was *****ing to Jacko that this man in there asked her to come to the back, which means
he wants sex but she said when she went back there he had no money.”

So we’re getting in the car and we notice one hub cap is missing and to me this is hilarious. I can not stop laughing.
One hub cap! Just one? I mean one hub cap!!

The ride home was long and excruciating I don’t think I had used a washroom for the last 6 hours and I had been drinking for
6 hours straight at least and we kept stopping on the way for Barber and Jacko to go.

“Andre this hurts I don’t think I have ever had to pee so badly in my entire life and if you hit one more
pot hole I swear to you I might actually pee my pants.”

"Babes I’ll pull over."

“Andre have you ever seen me try to pee outside?? No, I’ll wait.”

We make it back to his place first and he’s going to take Jacko and Barber home.

"I’ll see you soon okay" and he tries to kiss me but really I just need to get to the washroom
I’m doing what might look like the River Dance outside of his apartment and he sort of laughs at me.

“Ok ok go go but Amanda please don’t fall asleep on me, not tonight.”

I saw my first sunrise in Jamaica that morning, well sort of.