Thursday, January 31, 2008

Only in Vegas


On my recent trip to Vegas I was reminded of some of the weird things people do there. Maybe they do these things at home too. I'm not sure.

Every morning the casino bathrooms are filled with men blasting the water out of the toilets. Even in these huge well ventilated and marble walled restrooms there is always some guy who can pollute all 2000 square feet with fetid stench so bad that it makes the whole place unbearable. This is every damn bathroom on the strip. I'm trying to pee with my shirt pulled up over my face while breathing through my mouth and all I can taste is the thick nasty polluted butt air.

Ever see a guy take his drink into a bathroom stall, set it on the floor next to the toilet and take a stand up piss? I could actually see his drink splashing. But hell I guess for 7 to 10 bucks each, beers need to be watched carefully.

The beggars that hang out on the walkways between the casinos. "Hungry please help". I saw one filthy son of a bitch take a pile of wadded up bills out of his pocket, convert them to poker chips at the cashier and head straight for the roulette tables. Now THAT is a gambling problem.

Drunk kids leaving the hotel's dress up, hip fru fru bar at 4:00 AM. Glassy eyed stumbling, chicks with their tits spilling out and makeup smeared everywhere. Some crawling through their own puke trying to make it toward the elevators, high heels kicked off and abandoned. The ones that didn't hook up at the bar are desperately trying to grab onto any man with a pulse to take back to the room.

The cocktail waitresses look rode hard and put up wet. They are made to wear this outfit that pushes their boobs up in some impossible cleavage inducing package no matter how ridiculous it looks. They act like they've seen it all and will not take shit off anyone. I make sure to tip them so they don't spit in my drink.

90% of the table dealers are Asian. It's really not a problem except when they go off on you in their native tongue because you played your cards wrong. "No no you idiot not two kings dere pai gow pai gow you let me play your hand next time you moron!"

Those little tiny soaps in the hotel room. Christ almighty. I'm a pretty big guy and I'll be trying to wash my butt or something and the damn thing will disappear on me. I'm like "where the fuck did my soap go?' So I'll just finish up not really thinking about it. Next thing you know I'm walking down Las Vegas Boulevard and I feel a strange lump on my ass cheek. Holy shit! is that a tumor, a parasite? Oh fuck. No..it's just a minature hotel soap that got tangled in my butt hair.



43 Comments:

At January 31, 2008 at 9:36 PM , Anonymous Doggy Smile said...

Strange... Makes me wonder what the charm of Vegas is. Ohm, I forget - it's the gambling. No, it's the HOPE of making money without working for it...

 
At January 31, 2008 at 10:59 PM , Anonymous Kat said...

It's a good thing you aren't writing their travel brochures! I've never seen the appeal of Vegas, just not into gambling.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 2:29 AM , Anonymous Odat said...

Glad to hear you got away! LMAO at the lil soaps!!!!
Peace

 
At February 1, 2008 at 2:58 AM , Anonymous Karen said...

There is nothing like starting the morning with imaage of male butt hair. This is bound to be a good day. :)

 
At February 1, 2008 at 4:31 AM , Anonymous jenafear said...

Haven't been to Vegas before. We are planning a trip in March. I look forward to it.

Disappearing soap - that is funny.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 4:38 AM , Anonymous Wreggie said...

Great post Hammer. We says guys like that in the bathroom are "killing a hog".

Vegas is a town designed by drunks, for drunks.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 4:54 AM , Anonymous Matt-Man said...

Ha funny post. But the drunk chicks with boob spillage, I can dig that. Cheers!!

 
At February 1, 2008 at 5:40 AM , Anonymous Cheesy said...

Oh cripes Ham~~ another coffee spit on the monitor morning...LOVED the imagery in that one.. Glad it wasn't scratch and sniff tho.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 5:54 AM , Anonymous ordinaryjanet said...

funny! Makes me want to stay home.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 6:26 AM , Anonymous avenger29 said...

Damn it, I missed the desperate drunk chicks when I went to Vegas...

I don't gamble, so I enjoy seeing the sights and watching the people...

And as far as soap, etc- I take my own bodywash, shampoo, and other toiletries. I learned long ago that the hotel stuff is WORTHLESS.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 7:37 AM , Anonymous terri said...

Oh my god! I'm sitting at work totally busting a gut picturing the reaction to realizing there's a tiny little hotel soap stuck to your butt cheek! Especially because I really thought you were going to say you realized it fell in between your cheeks!

 
At February 1, 2008 at 7:54 AM , Anonymous Burfica said...

I just spit coffee all over the screen. Me thinks it's time to trim them ol butt hairs. hehehehehe

 
At February 1, 2008 at 7:55 AM , Anonymous Fyremandoug said...

Thanks for the Birthday Chucle Hammer its a great post

 
At February 1, 2008 at 8:05 AM , Anonymous Joker_SATX said...

ROTFLMAO! Hammer you crack me up! I don't know if I would survive a trip to Vegas with you.

Flyinfox_SATX

 
At February 1, 2008 at 8:19 AM , Anonymous Maddy said...

Always happy to learn from your experiences.....from a safe distance.
Cheers

 
At February 1, 2008 at 9:10 AM , Anonymous Doc said...

"all I can taste is the thick nasty polluted butt air"

Eeeeeeeeeew !!

I know exactly what you mean.... YUCK!

 
At February 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM , Anonymous tweetey30 said...

Gross but true in the bathrooms.. Even the womans room sometimes. The woman I know dont like to say yes I did that but hey you know we all do it.. LOL.. Anyway back on track. Those bar of soaps arent just in Vegas. They are all over the place. I hate those little bars of soap you are given. Or the shampoo when a woman has long hair. I mean my hair is a little past my shoulders but still. I feel for those that have hair past there asses... and try to use those little bottle of shampoo...

 
At February 1, 2008 at 10:19 AM , Anonymous IEAT_SNOWMANPOOP said...

wow I didn't really want to know all about your butt hair but thanks for sharing.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 10:22 AM , Anonymous Lightning Bug's Butt said...

I just returned from Laughlin this week. I saw some of the same things. Except no women. Just old, haggard broads who like to gamble.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 11:42 AM , Anonymous John McElveen said...

Hammer,

I INSIST you invite me to Vegas next time. The dark picture you painted is a fantasy land I must see again with you so I'll laugh my butt off!

Paint peelers unite- we need to invent toilet exhausts- I often wondered what happens in the Space Shuttle or a Submarine!

Soap Problem? Solution- Shave you ass!

Have a great weekend Bro,

John

Whatever happen to courtesy Beverage alerts? Of course anyone who has read you any length of time at should be ready for anything--BUTT you timing is impeccable! I'd love to see you do standup!!!

 
At February 1, 2008 at 1:09 PM , Anonymous Jeannie said...

You killed me today. I didn't see all those nasty things when I was in Vegas...oblivious I guess, plus I go to bed at 11.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 2:45 PM , Anonymous Joan of Argghh! said...

Vegas? No. New Orleans? Never.

I just don't get the appeal. I can get pretty stupid with just a few rum-and-cokes and if I want my money to entertain me, I can always flush dollar bills down the toilet.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 3:26 PM , Anonymous H2o said...

I never knew soap disappeared.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 4:08 PM , Anonymous tshsmom said...

I don't gamble, but had thought about going to Vegas to see the sights. Now that I've read your travelogue, I think I'll pass. ;)

 
At February 1, 2008 at 4:11 PM , Anonymous Barbara(aka Layla) said...

Eewwwwwwwww. This was an entertaining, disgusting, funny yet sad read. Thanks, I loved it!

 
At February 1, 2008 at 5:06 PM , Anonymous Yoga Gal said...

Viva Las Vegas! Do you know I live in Los Angeles, just an 8 hour drive or a 25 miunute flight from Vegas and I've never been to Vegas in my life! But everyone I know has been there and your stories out shine theirs! I enjoyed a great laugh! Thanks!

 
At February 1, 2008 at 5:06 PM , Anonymous Yoga Gal said...

Viva Las Vegas! Do you know I live in Los Angeles, just an 8 hour drive or a 25 miunute flight from Vegas and I've never been to Vegas in my life! But everyone I know has been there and your stories out shine theirs! I enjoyed a great laugh! Thanks!

 
At February 1, 2008 at 5:22 PM , Anonymous Mushy said...

This post was primo!

 
At February 1, 2008 at 5:46 PM , Anonymous Bridget Jones said...

Hilarious and almost scented post! Sad description of the 'glamour' of LV.

Glad you're back with us, H!

 
At February 1, 2008 at 7:00 PM , Anonymous Lexcen said...

I still want to travel to America but mainly to see Yellowstone,Grand Canyon and San Francisco.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 7:46 PM , Anonymous Stucco said...

They are so over the top in Las Vegas on every other front, I can't imagine why they don't do full size soap. I laughed at your trauma tho.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 8:56 PM , Anonymous phlegmfatale said...

Somehow, even with my seemingly limitless imagination, I never in a million years would have given your butthair any thought. Now I'm picturing the drying cake of whiteness snugly enmeshed in that dense thatch. Nice!

Thanks.

Funny picture you present of LV - particularly the furrin dealers berating the gamblers. Sounds like a very dysfunctional family out there. Not my cup of tea, but it sounds good for a few laughs.

Now, the guy sitting his drink on the floor by the terlit? I don't get that AT ALL! Ew.

 
At February 1, 2008 at 8:57 PM , Anonymous nanc said...

one of a hundred reasons i've refused to use bar soap for well over 30 years.

think about it.

give me palmolive liquid or a good anti-bacterial liquid and i know for sure anything that's touched the "taint" "ain't" gonna ever touch another part of my body - namely my face.

smell what i'm steppin' in, hammer?

 
At February 1, 2008 at 10:08 PM , Anonymous EE said...

Shit man, I just laughed for a good 5 minutes.

You rock Hammer.

 
At February 2, 2008 at 12:07 AM , Anonymous Just John said...

Some hotels/casinos are better than others. If I'm just wanting to have a couple of beers, I'll pump a few nickels into a machine. Some casinos have almost no cocktail waitresses for the nickel slots, and some have just as many as they do for the dollar slots.

The Tropicana was always good with booze for us nickel slot players.

Having spent a fair amount of time in 29 Palms (Vegas was only 2.5 hours away), I made a few trips out there for entertainment purposes; not to mention that our Marine Corps Ball was usually held there

 
At February 2, 2008 at 12:09 AM , Anonymous Kitem said...

I love Las Vegas the way you describe it.

 
At February 2, 2008 at 3:46 AM , Anonymous Dana said...

Ahhhh ... the soap! I needed that laugh!

My mother lives in Vegas and loves it. Frankly, I have a hard enough time just visiting and can't imagine actually living there.

 
At February 3, 2008 at 12:38 AM , Anonymous Sweeti said...

I 'm laughing so hard I'm crying. I seen it and know it well, Vegas is priceless huh. Mini soaps, mercy, hammer I can't stop laughing.

 
At February 4, 2008 at 9:34 AM , Anonymous Dan O. said...

LMAO! can't type, laughing too damn hard...

 
At February 4, 2008 at 4:21 PM , Anonymous FHB said...

Hilarious. Spot on. I went to Atlantic City a few years back and walked into a casino and there were all these old folks wheeled up to the slot machines puttin' their pension money in there, one quorter at a time. sad.

 
At February 6, 2008 at 7:06 AM , Anonymous Canadian flake said...

hmmmmmmm I think this makes me glad I am too poor to travel..lmaoooooo

 
At February 6, 2008 at 7:24 PM , Anonymous prepinparadise said...

LOL!!! So glad I stumbled upon your blog.....hilarious!

 
At February 20, 2008 at 1:14 PM , Anonymous kristi said...

Freaking hilarious!

 

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