Groupies
GroupiesMost people think of a groupie as a follower, a fan, a devotee, a buff. An enthusiast about something or someone. In fact, the term has been around for quite some time, history records groupies as sporting about with Alexander's world-conquering Greeks in the 4ht century BC. Today, however, when someone hears the word groupie. A particular type of girl comes to mind: the rock groupie. Generally not just a follower of one band in particular, she is often a devotee of any band that plays rock music. Being is the entertainment business and frequently being able to attend rock-and-roll events. I see this girl every time I go to a rock club. She is usually with her friends. Who in turn are more than likely groupies themselves. To many she mystifies. To others she is the social enigma. To rock members, though, she perhaps is entertaining. Obviously she is many things to different people, nonetheless, I have become aware of the qualifying elements that help define precisely what a groupie is these elements are easily noted.
The first overt sign that alerts you that a particular girl is a groupie is the way she dresses. Usually wearing a very tight (sexy?), short, black, leather mini-skirt with a fitted small, and equally tight tube top, the groupie exudes "good times." Moreover, her normal attire for her long (long!) legs and feet is black, fish-net French stockings. And ridiculously spiked heel shoes. The accessories she wears with this outfit are usually pretty cheap and comparably tacky, at least fifteen silver-plated bracelets gather Cleopatra-like on either arm, and scraps of dainty, imitation 18th-century lace flutter from around her wrists. Fastened around her neck is a silver-studded dog collar her oversized loop earrings protrude form beneath her fluffed hair as if to advertise her presence. Her face seems to be coated with a beige cosmetic film, her eyes, generally painted heavily with black eyeliner and mascara, stare seductively through the mask. The most noticeable feature about this girl, however, is her teased hair it seems to make her head look three times larger that its natural size. A groupie also carries a monster purse. Containing, among an assortment of items both useful and useless, matchbook covers with her name and number printed on the inside flap. She assumes, of course, that all rock and rollers smoke something she always has a Best Products economy size can of super-hold hair spray in this same purse and carries a Broadway-supply of makeup that includes every color and color combination known to man.
Another means to identify a groupie comes by listening to her conversations, in particular those with her groupie friends. For instance, the topic of conversation for a groupie usually centers on what rock band she went to see last weekend. The party supposedly happening...
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