Do you know how you see a 'sign-spinner' and wonder how they can actually get people to perform that job? There is worse, and dealing with the lesser model of the sign-spinner requires restraint! For those of you that have ever been to Vegas and have walked down the "strip," you will full on understand this, for those of you that haven't, when you do finally see it , you'll laugh and think of me! Okay, so there are people that stand on nearly every square inch of the populated strip and hand out baseball-card sized flyers for, um, professional women to passers-by. They often slap their inner arms once or twice and then try to hand off the "advertisement" to you. Mind you they are also usually wearing neon shirts, and hundreds of these guerilla marketers liter the street with these cards. As if the "slap, slap, pass" isn't enough to get your attention, they might throw in an occassional whistle, or now, their handlers have the poor people wearing half of a sandwich board that extends a foot over their heads. I'm sure to ignore the moving billboard trucks that crawl down Las Vegas Boulevard displaying said professional women, but these little um, porn flickers will definately convince me to call 966-BABE. Oh, and the target market certainly is equal opportunity- men, women, old, young (yes, even kids!) aren't off limits. So, my question is how do they get paid? By each porn card they hand off? and how do you find this job- on craigslist under promoters? I equate them much to the kiosk-workers at the mall- you know, you hug the wall to avoid ending up getting some random hand cream slapped on you, or even pretend to be on the phone and avoid eye-contact at all costs. Ugh- how annoying!
Okay, I said it was going to be a random rant! But really, I do love Vegas! And this particular time, we actually extended our visit as we were having so much fun. We weren't winning tons of dinero, but enough to stay over. Mind you that one of the reasons that we did stay over was becuase of the three hour delay at the airport (only one runway is open) and we didn't spend as much time on the strip that we wanted. Changing our flight to the next day meant that we had to get up at 4:30 a.m., but our flight only had NINE (seriously...) people on it and wasn't delayed.
Some interesting points:
- Do you know how many people are still awake at 4:30 a.m.? We passed a trio of girls that were strolling in from what appears to be an all-nighter clubbing. Oh to be young again! And there were FULL tables of people gambling. I know, it's Vegas and it never sleeps, but its still crazy!
- If you are going to Vegas and want to save some money, sign up for the Pocketbook of Values through the Anthony Curtis' Las Vegas adviser . You will save tons of money on BOGO buffets and even match play. Also, check out the American Casino Guide- it's full of deals as well. These include hotel deals that are BOGO and can save money on the hotels. Between the two books, we made about $150 on match play- seriously- and ate for dirt cheap. You might also try the entertainment book, but the 2009 version wasn't as good as others. I also recommend Tickets2night and Half price tickets- there are kiosks everywhere and they sell tickets for that night's performances as well as discount vouchers for many nice restaurants. We saw CarrotTop and Mystere for 1/2 price (although that was in previous trips)- so if you can be flexible, you'll save money on show tickets and you HAVE to see a Vega$ show at least once. We found out that you can catch a shuttle from Harrah's to the Rio and Gold Coast, the Palms and The Orleans for just a tip. Also, if you take their transit system, the Deuce, for just under $2 you can get around the strip or even take it to Fremont Street.
So, like I said, completely random- but I do feel better now that I shared! (: And I'm sure that you will totally think of me the next time you are in Lost Wages and see a porn flicker!
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