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Think of how much more interesting this story would have been if he (the narrator) had told the young girl that she could go with all right, but they were going to a recovery group at a church in an adjoining county where she could get clean and find a way out.

And, after a fight with her boss, who ran the joint and wanted to act as her pimp, she agreed to go.

Then, in the process of this, she could have told him her story about how she ended up in a strip joint and hooked on crank. And who her family were and what their troubles were.

Stories, even parables and allegories, have more resonance when they have a human face.

And there are hundreds of thousand of young girls like this one who really are struggling to escape youthful addiction and poverty with some semblance of their lives and sanity...if just one decent young man happened to stop in for a drink at a "titty bar."