^As we were driving home, beautiful hills and mountains covered in snow. So it's 10pm.. I'm playing some harmonium and humming to myself a new tune I'm working on, and my front door slams open. "Dude we're going to Vegas!! Get out, lets go!!". I look at my friend and say "Are you kidding me?".
He said we'd go and come back tomorrow morning, he somewhow convinced me to go along on this ludicrous trip-- At first I told them to leave me alone, but eventually I thought to myself, sure lets have a little fun, what do I have to lose.
We get there around 1:30am.. I had not gone to Vegas for quite some time, and had forgotten how beautiful the main strip was, as I stared at the lightings and structures like a little kid seeing a roller coaster for the first time, wondering to myself wow sj would love this. We walk into ceasars palace, and I watched one of my friends immediately win $200 on russian roulette-- impressive I thought.
I put $20 on the roulette table, and after 15 minutes I lost. I thought what a ripoff that was-- and looked to the blackjack tables. Having played blackjack 21 with friends in high school, I was versed in its intricate workings. I put $10 on the table, kindly gestured to all of the players, and began. The dealer, an Asian lady with a very naughty smirk, handed me my chips. 10 minutes pass, and I am up to $50. I was feeling quite excited, wow I'm actually making 5x more than I put in. 20 more minutes pass and I'm up to $180, and at this time the scantily dressed waitress begins bringing me drinks (apparently if you stay at a game table long enough, they bring you free drinks). I'm not sure what the drink was, however I was quite thirsty, and gulped it down. I was feeling like James Bond in 007 as a strange lady came and started messaging my shoulder, and kept saying "Go champ". After about 5 minutes, I told her that I am fine, please move along. I realised the drink had an alcoholic taste to it, and thought whatever, one cup won't get me drunk. Apparently it was vodka, and 10 minutes later I start laughing my ass off and joking around with everyone near me as I continued playing-- I was drunk, and I was thinking to myself, wow I am so drunk right now, this is a very strange and funny feeling. Gambling and drinking, such a pious young man I am.
10 minutes later I had lost $30 and was at $150, and had even gained a small little audience cheering me on. Perhaps I was being very loud and attracting attention, not sure. Interesting now that I think back on it.
My friend came by the table, and I can clearly see that he is drunk as well, and pissed that he lost his money. At this moment in time, I'm laughing hysterically and am about to collapse on the table just looking at the drunken state of this bloke-- and security comes and stands near the table, just staring, and not saying anything. An older lady starts laughing as well, and says "you had too many drinks dear". I found that even more funny, because I had only 1 drink that looked like orange juice LOL.
We left the table and started walking around Las Vegas, and visited a couple other casinos and universal studios. It was freezing outside. The sun was coming out, and I realized I'm not drunk anymore. We were quite hungry so we found this place called "Fatburger"-- I ate like 3 burgers. All of us now were sober, and amidst burger eating an intersting philosophical discussion on economics and power ensued.
I decided I was going to drive us home, since I did not trust that they were sober enough. I gulped 2 bottles of RedBull, and back towards LA we drove. The mountains and hills were full of snow, I snapped some pictures as I was driving (see above).
^In front of Ceasar's Palace, I was no longer drunk (to the right).
^Trying to detoxify with redbull, green tea, and meditation-- in the middle of the street across from ceasar's palace (horrible pic btw).
-m
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment