Thursday, 15th April
Not every client interaction is straightforward.
Long gone are days where sex toy stores are located around the corner in some back alley adorned with double security gates and blacked out windows.
The Play With Me set up is a smart, high end boutique style shopping experience in a well-known vanilla friendly complex. Dignified and friendly and one that generally attracts the same kind of clientele.
However, on occasion some chancers are bound to slip through the cracks...
It was during the days of the wearing of the masks that The Serial Licker arrives to browse the store. I know by now that if you aren't committing to something in the first 5 minutes or at the very least looking for some good advice, you're here on a different agenda.
At the time a nail salon was renting my studio space upstairs. The Serial Licker, fidgety and distracted wants to know what goes on up there. "Manis and pedis" I tell him, "Do you want one?"
"No" he says, "I’ll give you R2000 if you’ll let me lick you".
Straight to the point, no stuffing around, not what I was expecting.
I am most sensitive to the wants and needs of others as it relates to their sexual existence. I am also usually quite good at maintaining my composure. Time spent in the industry reminds you not to take some people too seriously, but this in an industry that I was still fairly new in was simply not to be the case.
I just lost it. Mid "Are you disrespecting me in my own store" and "Chopping your cock off and handing it to security on a silver platter" (yes, I said those things) he upped it to R5k!
Despite the generous offer, I wasn't playing anymore and he fled, circling the block 3 times so that I could see (and remember for the rest of time) the look of utter disappointment on his face. Proper sadnesses.
Straight after telling my bestie all about it and she says, "But friend, where did he want to lick you?" Where do you think?!
Apparently over the months that followed, The Serial Licker had frequented quite a few stores around Johannesburg with the same cash offer. Shame, I wonder if anyone ever obliged?
Admittedly, today, it does stand out as quite a humorous interaction. A reminder, I guess, that it takes all kinds to make the world go round. I mean, after all, he left with cravings unsatisfied and I’m down R5k! ;)
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