Ok, I’m gonna have to do this in a few parts, because I am still tired and slightly out of it.
We accomplished the “up till dawn” thing twice while there.
I ‘l have Mrs Sniff post on some other aspects of the trip.
Let me get my negative rants out of the way.
FIRST, as much as I like Vegas one thing it is quicky becoming is a Redneck Riviera. Living in Lawrence, KS one thing that spoils you is that we don’t have a lot of fat ass toothless hillbilly types living here. With the University here obviously we have a nice collection of younger, nice looking females here.
Unfortunately, Vegas with its multitude of cheep flights via Allegiant Air ($69 each way) from tiny destinations such as Sioux Falls and Rapid City South Dakota, Bismark and Fargo North Dakota, Missoula Montana and Idaho Falls, Idaho it has become the choice destination of incredibly overweight, toothless, hillbilly redneck types.
You simply do not see very many nice, ordinary attractive people there anymore.
Even in the Mega resorts. Despite the billions spent on these destinations with the marble floors, beautiful furnishings, fine restaurants and oasis type settings it is grossly offset with people walking around in nasty shorts, tennis shoes, dirty T-shirts, mullets and bunches of women with thighs bigger than I am with mounds of cellulite! Its fucken gross.
How the hell can a normal person enjoy a fine vacation when these type of people are milling around?
I mean seriously, these are folks who consider a trip to Denny’s buffet and Smoke shop fine dining.
If you are going to take your ass to Vegas at least TRY and play dress-up and look decent walking around.
SECOND, Trash. With all the billions and billions of dollars spent making Vegas this spectacular glossy destination, city leaders sure as hell don’t spend very much time cleaning up the rest of the city.
Having the opportunity to drive literally around the entire city Mrs. Sniff and I got to explore not only the strip and casinos but neighborhoods as well. There is still significant building going on there.
They are building luxury condos and townhomes by the bunches. Unfortunately the areas where building has yet to commence there are piles of cement, dirt and mounds of trash everywhere.
It’s already bad enough that you are in an environment that is dry, brown, sorely lacking in trees or green grass but blowing trash, construction waste and other debris is given free reign to spread itself around the city.
Now adding to the trash category is political signs. These should be outlawed. The jackass politicians in Vegas are not satisfied enough with the small yard type signs you see elsewhere, but these bastards erect signs the size of a mini vans on these vacant lots I mentioned. They also put them on any available fencing or vacant surface. I even saw one politician advertise on the side of a restaurant! Its just fucken tacky as hell.
THIRD, Foreign Drivers. One thing you notice is that there are lots of accidents in Vegas and when you see one they are more often than not serious ones. Also more times than not the fault lies with the Japanese or some other far Eastern individual who decided to come to Vegas and rent a fancy car knowing damm well they can’t navigate successfully.
Every time I was cut off or cut in front of was a foreign driver. Oh lets not forget the Middle Eastern folks as well. One lady (Indian dot, not feather) whom I thought was making a right turn had her car in the middle of the far right lane on a six lane boulevard. She looked as though she wanted to get totally across the street. Instead of waiting for the proper light she simply was easing herself across this incredibly busy street causing a major traffic jam.
FOURTH, support staff in Vegas.
I believe that most of what I am bitching about has taken it’s toll on the support staff there in Vegas. Having to cater to the rude gamblers, the plastic face and breasted trophy wives, to the Hillbilly masses these people are just worn out and pissed off. Except for a couple of cases the support staff was slightly rude, never smiled, looked pissed off and especially the waitresses in the mega hotels were not as attractive. Even in the Paris, (was my favorite) all of the fine looking women who worked there in those French uniforms were not nearly as nice or attractive. They clearly did not enjoy their work. They were just going through the motions and collecting a paycheck.
Being there for one week wore me out. Can you imagine working there day in and day out.
Mrs Sniff will continue this later. We are still settling in and recuperating.
Despite my rants Mrs Sniff and I had a good time. We always say to each other we can enjoy ourselves wherever we go. It’s never about the destination, it’s more about who you are with.

I cured my Vegas fix for awhile.

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 20th, 2006 at 12:00 pm and is filed under General, White Trash News.
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