Ostomy Memories of Vegas

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HenryM

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS lived in Las Vegas. The company that she worked for happened to have their national headquarters there. To see her, or to catch a plane east, were the only two reasons I’d ever go near the place. Living in southern Utah at that time, the drive down to Vegas took about four hours. The final portion of the drive was on interstate highway through drab, boring desert. Eventually, Vegas would begin to appear off in the hazy, indistinct distance, along with more roadside billboards, more industrial-looking businesses, with the obscure appearance of the Vegas entertainment Strip growing slowly larger, like a pimple on a butt, as the amount of traffic increases and you begin to enter the purlieu of this gross adult playground. The one time I grit my teeth and ventured into one of the casinos, the place reeked of cigarette smoke and the cheap perfume on the old ladies sitting at row after row of slot machines. The entire Vegas Strip is Americana in its most grotesque manifestation. I couldn’t wait to get away from the place, even if it meant not getting to see Wayne Newton.

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Bill

Hello HenryM.

I get a similar feeling when travelling to London. Except that it is the air pollution that gets to me first and most. by the time I get home again I need a chimney sweep for my nostrils. I dread to think what it dooes to my lungs!

Best wishes

Bill 

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TerryLT
<>Hi Henry,Las Vegas is one of those places I don't even need to visit to tell you that I would hate it. Never could understand the appeal. I'm glad your daughter doesn't live there anymore!


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bowsprit
Reply to Bill

I know you mean it in an atmospheric and environmental sense but no other than Dr Johnson said:' When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.'

bowsprit

I don't know how anyone can be bored in a casino. The whole ambiance is one of gaiety and merriment, one doesn't have to gamble, there are other things to do. However, your money and you can easily be parted, especially if you are not very knowledgable about whatever game you are playing. Most of the big winners end up giving the money back eventually. There are only about a dozen people in the whole wide world who successfully make a living out of gambling in casinos. I only know of one and that too is from sports gambling. He ends up losing in the casinos. A good friend squandered a fortune till he sobered up and through a streak of good luck won most of it back. These ' streaks ' do exist in real life but what brings them about nobody knows. In my own case, at the end of the month, I am usually even or down a small amount, but it took many years to become proficient at the the many games I play.

 
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TerryLT
Reply to bowsprit

I have to agree with you. My only complaint about my last one week stay in London was that it wasn't long enough. A facinating city.

HenryM
Reply to bowsprit

Maybe gamblers won in Donald Trump's casinos, since his always ended up going bankrupt. 

bowsprit
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The odds in a casino are so structured that they do not lose in the long-term. Perhaps in that case mismanagement was the culprit not the spinning wheels of fortune. The man who brought in a million dollars in a suitcase and doubled it on one toss of the dice later lost it all. Tragically, he ended up a suicide in a hotel. Some people say that was a result of losing a lover and not financial problems since he was up half a million at that point. The reason why casinos have a betting limit at Blackjack is that three or four players allowed unlimited bets can make a casino sorely regret the results. There are a few card counters and people good at numbers who can beat the casino including a professor of mathematics. They are disallowed entry, some thing to do with the rights of admission resting with the proprietor of the premises. Another story concerned a pastor who did not visit the tables but robbed a casino three times with a firearm! The gun was later found to be a fake!

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