"The Nifty Girls" - #1 Roxanne and #2 Karlotta

Post date: May 12, 2014 1:52:45 AM

#1 Roxanne and #2 Karlotta

Roxanne is 4" long x 4" wide x 7 1/2" high. Her statement on the bottom reads, "I use to love jumping rope. Now I get a big buzz by just being able to skip or walk over one".

Hope you all realize that these are fictitious names. As they would say on the old Dragnet Show, the names have been changed to protect the innocent and if I ever have to go back for more therapy, they won't try and do me in. There was a "girl" at Nifty after Fifty who I never saw work out on any of the machines. All she did was walk around, pick up small weights occasionally and instead of using the large rubber exercise band, would use a rope to do leg exercises, always while sitting down. She always got a fresh towel and wrapped it around her neck. Funny, but I never saw her break out in a sweat. She gabbed a lot with the other "girls" while they worked out. My therapist told me that for a few coming in, it was like a social event. She made an attempt to talk with me a few times, but the way she clung onto that rope caused me to only increase the rapidity of my routines. A wise man once told me, never get involved with a woman wielding a knife, one with 3 grandsons who are Division-1 football linemen or one with a rope asking "would you like to hang out later?".

Karlotta is 4" long x 4" wide x 6" high. Her statement reads, "They told me I couldn't take their "ballet class". Said they didn't have any tutus in my size. Rude gay pigs".

She seemed familiar to me in a way. Perhaps I had seen her years ago at the Plaza Casino in downtown Vegas, in the revue Nudes On Ice. All the nude chick skaters were at least 5'-10", had on skimpy feathered outfits, lots of makeup and exposed natural boobs with extremely protruding nipples caused by the frigid ice they were subjected to. They stayed toward the back of the stage/small ice rink and skated to the front of the stage in between acts to entice the audience. The main acts/skaters were a few individuals that had competed in the Olympics, but none had finished in the top twenty. Think Karlotta was the third from the left on stage/ice. She had probably shrunk 1 1/2 - 2" height wise over the years, but had increased her waistline two times from when she was a skater at the Plaza. A few things didn't change over the years. She still had those dancer legs, wore those long fake eyelashes/glitter/eyeliner/exaggerated lipstick and still had that pompous show girl attitude. She reminded all of the many big rooms and notable revues she had been a part of. Perhaps that she was in her early 70's and limber enough while grasping the barre doing plies, is why she wanted to take the "ballet class". She definitely didn't want to do her work outs with any of the "male" trainers. If you know Vegas, you know Vegas and what I am getting at. Is someone I would've liked to have had a conversation or two with, but thought of how much pasta or chianti she would have to imbibe in until we finally got to having a real conversation.

Coming up next will be #3 Florence and #4 Jessie. Hopefully, when you have been introduced and met all The Nifty Girls, you can give me a bit of feed back and let me know which one you related to, would like to know more about or if you have someone via your life that is similar to one of The Nifty Girls.

John Michael

#1 Roxanne and #2 Karlotta

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