CatrinaCosta link wrote:
Sorry to jump in on you. I am loving the conversation and I admit that I am rolling on the floor laughing at the reference to age. But maybe that gives them even more experience in order to base their knowledge of an ATF. I mean Doctor Who has traveled thru time and space he better than anyone might know the answer to that question. 
I am just wondering if the ladies have ATF clients as well. I know that I have clients that I click with and have a lot in common with and we are able to sit and talk and have a blast. It is a more relaxed time with them which makes them more at easy as well. So I feel like the whole adventure is better. Those tend to be clients that come back and are repeats. So to go back to what you have all commented it is the ladies that you go back to see over and over the one you feel like you make that connection with where you can be friends.
OK just to clarify. I was not questioning Cobia or Doc Who just pointing out neither has a normal human life span so of course their definition is going to be a bit different. I should have wrote that first part of that post better.?
Now to answer the last part of your post.
Yes you girls have favorite clients some might even reach an ATF status with you similar to what you girls reach with some of your clients.
It won't necessarily be one that pays you the most. Maybe they only book a couple of times a year.
But I bet you a dollar since I am too poor to bet more.
☹ Someday some client probably more then one will let you know in some way you are there favorite or their ATF. If they haven't already.
You are going to probably find although it may only be a special few they are going to be your favorite clients. Some might even be your version of an ATF. The same as a clients favorite or ATF just from the working girls perspective.
Unfortunately this type of relationship/arrangement will end it will be bitter sweet for you both there is no way around it. This is just the way this must end.
But when the time comes. You might do what mine did. You are going to if at all possible end this current chapter of your life with at least a slect special few clients differently then you will with most of the rest.
Kristine knew when it was time for her to move on. That I was not the client that paid her the most. I didn't get to book as often as I wanted to or she would have liked.
But she knew where she stood with me, and I probably more so then maybe all her other regular clients would have the hardest time dealing with her departure.☹ So she went out of her way and basically bent over backwards to make sure I knew that all though it had to be this way it was not going to be exactly easy for her either. She would miss me in her own way a little too.
I should point out though in my case at least.
I started giving Kristine a little bit of a heads up on what it was going to be like for me when she moved on about a year maybe a little more before she actually did retire.
You are going to get lost here for a paragraph or so Catrina sorry.
Anyway those of you that used to follow the monkey monger Chronicles back when I was cranking those out all the time. Knows a lot of times most of them actually it was me just being bored trying to amuse myself maybe make you all laugh or have some type of emotions. Maybe just think wow that Ironman guy on the forum marches to his own unique beat.
But the Kristine stories at least the ones where her character was female lead. Were always loosely sometimes very loosely based on something I actually experienced with her. Or they were a story about something that was going to happen with her someday in the future.
When I knew the end was coming soon, or at least sooner then I wanted. I started cranking out a bunch of stories about what it would be like for me when she was gone.
None of those ever got posted on open forum.
But Kristine saw I think all but maybe one. But 2 of them in particular too bad they never got a run on open forum one in particular you all would have loved.
Anyway Kristine got too see them. Basically they were stories of you know its going to happen if It has to be this way. Let's at least do it this way OK?
Well Kristine must have watched the files I sent her very carefully and took damn good mental notes.
When the time actually came about a year later maybe a little longer things were pretty close to how Kristine's fictional counter part parted ways with Monkey monger.
So basically Kristine had about a year or more of source martial to draw from on how to part ways with me, and how to help soften the blow ever so slightly after.
Like I said she did her homework took good notes.??
You all of course now have had confirmed what you already know Monkey monger is a fictional character. He is just a regular random dude.
Except for in the Kristine stories in the Kristine stories he was my proxy a stand in for me, and unlike the other girls that made apperences in the monkey monger Chronicles the way, I portrayed Kristine's character was pretty close to how she was at least with me.
In hind sight though not all that surprising. Kristine was sharp. Once she figured out the context and where I was going with them.
She actually embraced her character. She was actually creative consultant/executive producer on DGB4 for those of you that caught that one on Sin back in 2012. She also had an EP credit on the follow up I also rolled On sin about 3 weeks later why can't you.? aka
WCU? I forget actually how I labeled that one
But I bet PB still has a copy.?
So anyway yes you can have favorites too Catrina most likely, They feel the same way about you.
Paid for time or not it is a unique sometimes complicated dynamic with your ATF rather you have one or 100. it don't matter only those that play this game and have a ATF. Can understand it. Even then not completely.?
But, that's why she's my ATF. Now, wait before you judge. I'm a realist, and am proud to say we're friends