Glad you made it out alive
[QUOTE=SpacemanSpiff;2171015]You've probably seen the ads for new massage chain "Tai Chi" all over Backpage, for instance:
[URL]http://myrtlebeach.backpage.com/TherapeuticMassage/grand-opening-_-tai-chi-massagecall-843-457-8025/9411566[/URL]
Well, I looked at the ads and seeing that one location was inside Coastal Grande Mall, figured they must be totally legit, but yet the ads have very flirty pics of the masseuses (though I'm fully aware the girls in the pictures are never the real girls), so I decided to check out one of the non-mall locations. I figured it would be your standard Chinese operation where I would get a good massage even though I probably wouldn't get anything else.
I have to say I am *not* impressed. I chose the US-501 location. This is on the same corner as Parkway, but in the building that faces 501 instead of the building that faces Grissom Parkway. Tai Chi is in the easternmost suite of the building. The location once housed a really good Korean AMP back in the glory days where I had some very good times. After that I think it was a chiropractor's office for a long time -- now it has come full circle.
Anyway, I went in and chose 60 min with table shower from the menu -- I think it was $88. The first thing I noticed after exiting the lobby was that the whole place seemed dark and dingy. I was led into a small room with an ugly sheet for a doorway. In the room was a cot with a face cut-out, but instead of being nicely covered with a sheet as they are at most places, the matress was just bare with a towel laid over the top. It was not at all attractive, and you had to wonder how many other people's grit would be embedded there in the many places you would be lapping over the edges of the towel. Usually the Chinese places have a nice sense of decor -- China has been civilized for a very long time after all -- but this room was like some 1970's dorm room. I half expected to see a cinder-block bookshelf.
I generally like to get the table shower first, since that gives you a chance to prove you're OK with being frontally naked in front of the girl, plus she'll know all your bits are clean since she did it. In this case that seemed to confuse the girl, so I dropped it and just laid down (reluctantly). As soon as I did that, I noticed another thing that had been on the edge of my mind -- no music of any sort.
The massage was OK I guess, though as is often the case there was a lot of fooling with places I'd rather they move on from quickly, like my neck. There was also some backwalking which I've never been a fan of. There was no discernable tease with the massage.
Afterwards I was led down a dark hall to the shower room which was somewhat appaling. I don't know what the shower table started off as, but it seemed to have been some sort of bench which someone had attempted to make waterproof by wrapping it in layers of shipping tape. It was not something that should have been in a shower area at all! Furthermore, this is the only table shower room I can recall which was flat out dark. It was very depressing being on this totally inappropriate platform in the dark. Then when I exited the actual shower room to the shower anteroom, which was at least brighter, I noticed a lot of water on the floor that made me very uncomfortable with the placement of the table lamp.
All in all, it was an unpleasant experience, and one I would not repeat.
Spaceman Spiff.[/QUOTE]Sounds like a place that you don't come back from.
