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NEW YORK EXPERIENCE

Posted on June 8, 2009 - Filed Under The Job Hunter | 1 Comment

I moved to Hollywood in 1992 and I couldn’t get anyone to hire me. The problem, they said, was that I only had New York experience.

Eventually I landed a job as a cocktail waitress at a strip club, where I met a Rumanian stripper. She wore pasties that she referred to as “pastries” and they looked like eyeballs, so she’d shake her tits in my face and say “Do you like my eyes?” Of course she called herself an actress and said she was just trying to get her foot in the door.

I guess she thought her pussy was her foot.

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