1 post tagged “vegas”

And I don't mean "oh this was paradise built by the mob!"  I was walking thru the casino floor of the Venetian looking at all of these people desperate to give their money to all of these other people who...didn't look like they really cared.  Suddenly I wanted to see those stories.

Why do so many people choose to get married in a place called Sin City?  Why are they there to celebrate the end of being single, the beginning of holy union and the monotony of the end of their lives all in the same place?  Everywhere you turn are Brides and weird couples and solitary old people.  I mean when you see the military folks you kinda understand, they want to blow off steam and be as far from "Regulated Order" that their own lives represent.

But what brings everyone else back?  And why hasn't anyone documented that question and maybe some answers?

Then there is the other side.  The facilitators.  The dealers, the cabbies, the limo guys the ARMY OF BARTENDERS and the supply line of sex workers/"advertisers".  I know a lot of them train in the area and generally have chosen to be there.  You have these dealers who have 17, 18, 19 years listening to jackasses like me ask them what the rules say about hitting that 12 against a possible 16.  What are they getting out of life that a postal worker isn't?  Why aren't there more Casino Worker killing sprees?  Cocktail waitressing is something I always hear sucks?  Yet there are a bunch of them?  What is holding these people here?  It isn't like Los Angeles where you can fool yourself into thinking that you might still be discovered...I mean i suppose that you might marry some rich d00d that youmet when you brought him that Irish coffee during the hottest streak in his life.  I suppose.

I have no snappy finisher to this.  Just something I was thinking about all weekend, while Vegas was reminding me I was too old to be hanging out there.

But not old enough to be playing slots and kino all day.