Mouse's Ear Memoirs: Michelle
Michelle is a fun one! I don't know her real name or have any pictures. Michelle was her stage name. She still deserves her own post, to be acknowledged as the bombastic and classy lady that she is!
As a physical description, Michelle is a light skinned African-American Tennessean, with a yellowish hue to her complexion and freckles dusting her cheeks. She is traditionally beautiful in the face, short, with no cellulite or stretch marks to note, limited tattoos, a humble bosom, curvaceous natural hips and backside. Most would agree that she's a lovely sight to behold, but what's a Mouse's Ear Memoirs post without some personality?
Michelle was nice to me if nobody else was around at the dressing room counter. We peacefully put on makeup or whatever, just being quiet or chit-chatting here and there. Unfortunately, Michelle is a beta who went along with whatever her friends thought, so she wasn't nice to me if other people were around. Her best workplace friend was Selexa (Leah Ewing), who's already been covered.
Michelle was Selexa's friend who laughed loudly at me during my first week, when a customer reached out and grabbed me in an act of sexual assault before I threw him out. Michelle would sometimes join Selexa in interrupting conversations I was having with customers, trying to disrupt my sales. One time a customer had already signaled that he wasn't going to spend money on me, so I got up from the table to leave, shortly after Michelle sat down. Michelle then stated, incorrectly, that I was intimidated by her and was scared away. Michelle really hated LingLing, and once threatened to “cut” her with a razor at work. LingLing told me that she bumped into Michelle at a gas station, and Michelle ran away when she saw her. Michelle angrily threatened “to go on a shooting spree” at the club when she wasn't making money one night. She often sat in the dressing room, complaining and making violent threats. Michelle hated Lilith, and once discussed with a group of dancers a plan to “beat up” Lilith while her friends covered for her. I told Lilith about their plan, because I felt it was my duty to warn her. Lilith subsequently carried around a tiny knife on a necklace at work. Michelle regularly sat with and attempted to interrupt customers who were sitting at my stage. She was also bothered whenever I read books on the show floor, and would intentionally try to interrupt me from reading, by sitting near me, shouting or laughing loudly near my ears. She once said I look “ugly” sitting there reading a book. Michelle regularly harassed my friend Bunny, for having sensitive skin that broke out in hives and rashes. Michelle assumed Bunny had rashes because she didn't wash herself, and would say harassing things to her such as, “Ya need ta wash yo ass!” Michelle's temper flared up over benign things with regularity, she regularly drank at work, and was often worried about getting a DWI driving home from work. She was never at risk of losing her job though. Ralph Browning was sexually attracted to her. They sometimes hugged and stand-up cuddled on the show floor, which made me think of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Michelle wore a giant blonde hair hat at all times in Mouse's Ear, including in the shower.
Michelle had problems outside of Mouse's Ear as well. She was a mother in a one-income household. She occasionally went to Lexington, Kentucky, to work and allegedly make more money there than she did in Knoxville. Her Lexington club was shut down for a while, because there was a shooting and somebody died. I was happy when she was working in Lexington instead of Knoxville. Michelle proudly shared with everyone in the dressing room that both her “baby daddy” and her current partner were in the same prison, and they sometimes fought each other in prison, due to matters of Michelle-induced jealousy.