It’s another Thursday, Friday or Saturday night and my phone is blowing up with text messages and phone calls. I always ignore majority of them on these particular days. "Why?", you might ask. It’s because I already know what my friends are texting or calling me about. It’s not about having a study session, going to the gym to play basketball, or to talk about what they're going through at the moment. You guessed it: It’s about hitting up a club that night.

I know what you are thinking. Why wouldn’t I want to go to a club with friends and have some fun? You're in your 20s. But the honest truth is, I rarely do clubs. Let me reiterate: I....Hate....The.... Club. I’m more of a house party or kickback type of person. I like having space and socializing with other people.

I’ve had too many bad experiences, seen too many incidents turn out bad at clubs. To top it all off, I have had zero fun every single time I go to one. It all started when I turned 18 and went to my first club: Electric Cowboy’s. I got a couple of dances and a few drinks, but overall I didn’t like it because the music was terrible and because I got ripped off.

The sad thing is that I live in Atlanta, which has one of the biggest club scene in America. Also, I want to be a future A&R representative and part of my job requirement is to go to clubs to find talent. Sigh.

However, I don’t hate all clubs. As a matter of fact, I like small little clubs where they have open mics or standup specials. Still, the majority of the bigger clubs I think the world can do without. Clubs like Quad, Mansion, Compound and Crucial (sorry, T.I.) you will never see me in.

In all honesty, I really don’t understand why people still go to clubs. Yeah, your favorite DJ or artist might be there, but people really don’t care about that. The majority of people are there just to be there with friends, get drinks or just there to say they were there that night. Promoters, artists, celebrities and DJs are simply there because they’re paid to be there.

I could give you a thousand reasons why I hate the club, but I’m simply just going to give you my top ten reasons:

1. There’s a three-to-one guy/girl ratio the majority of the time.

You go to the club and walk in, what do you see? You see a Playboy Mansion, but instead of girls, it’s guys. From one end of the club to the other, it’s just a sea of guys swarming around small groups of girls. I understand as a guy you trying to have fun, but it’s not cool to be around one girl while 10 other guys swarming her too.

2. People Who Are Sticking To The Wall All Night.

I hate going to a place to see other people just standing in corners or near the wall texting or just looking in the distance. Makes me wonder... are they working undercover or are they feds? What in their right minds forces them to get up and go to a place just to observe from a distance? It mind boggles me so much that I want scientists to stop trying to figure out cures for deadly diseases and study these people. In all seriousness though, that creep life won't win any of you points in anybody's book.

3. Long Lines.

I’ve been in retail lines, concert lines and even single file lines, but nothing compares to being in a club line. The way the lines are at clubs you would think you were waiting at the pearly gates to get into Heaven. Even if you are in the skip line, you’re still going to be waiting a good 45 minutes to get to the door. Clubs and promoters trick people by telling them that’s it’s free to get in until 12:00, but they know nobody is going to come early because who arrives early to a public event or party? So now you got to wait to get in even if you arrived before 12:00.

4. There’s Rarely Dancing Anymore.

Yeah, I’m a guy and I like to dance. So what? When I go to the club, I want to dance. Nowadays when I go there, I barely see that. I don’t see crews battling in the club or people slow dancing. No, all I see is girls twerking on their group of girls or random chicks, group selfies and more twerking. There’s no introduction to even dance, you literally just tap or grab a chick by the elbow and they start twerking on you. Believe me, I have no problem getting twerked on, but I would like to see who is twerking on me. I miss the days when people actually went to the club to dance.

5. Security Pat-Downs.

There’s no way around it. Either you're getting violated or you're not. I know what you’re thinking: Security is just doing their job, but it doesn’t seem like that sometimes.

6. You Lose Whoever You Came With.

It doesn’t matter who you came with, you will always end up losing them at one point of the night and probably be trying to find them the majority of the time. It doesn’t even matter if you had an emergency backup plan to meet up somewhere in the club, somebody will always deviate from it.

7. People Become Stuck In That Lifestyle.

We all have that one friend that once they get a taste of something they think they know everything, or all of a sudden they’re all about that life. Then, it becomes worse—they get completely engulfed by the lifestyle. The club lifestyle is the worst in my opinion to be engulfed in. I don’t understand people who want to live their life in the club every weekend. They literally do the same sequence of events every weekend night for five years in a row. I’ve literally seen people spend their last dollar on the club rather than save it for something else. I’m not made like that; I need diversity in my life.

By no means is this a hatred article towards clubbers. You have the right to do whatever what you want to do. Just don’t ask me to come or go to a club because I’ll swerve on you real quick.