Vegas: questions and answers
12:04 PM PT, Jun 18 2007
Here is my very subjective list of the Top 10 questions asked
by tourists guaranteed to annoy locals. I offer even more subjective answers.
I was inspired to do this recently when I had a houseguest who promptly asked me
three items on this list.
10. We can just walk easily between the casinos on the Strip, right?
A: You can. But locals generally avoid walking on the Strip at all costs.
Resorts are huge and the distance between them far greater than the eye
suggests. Every tourist should enjoy walking the Strip. But let your local
friends take a taxi and meet you there.
9. Doesn't the heat bother you?
A: Does the winter bother people in Minneapolis? You learn to deal.
It helps if you aren't asked by your visiting friends to walk between casinos on
the Strip.
8. Were you born in Las Vegas?
A: Overwhelmingly, the people you will meet during your vacation moved here
for a job in the tourism industry. Actual Vegas natives are rare
treasures.
7. Do you gamble?
A: Everyone has a different pat answer to this question. Those who say
"only a little" are generally lying.
6. Can you get me tickets to see...?
A: If locals have enough juice to get you into see some show or club they will
offer to help. Otherwise, get your own tickets. That is what the Internet is
for.
5. Have you met Paris Hilton?
A: Yes. And, so have frontline workers up and down the Strip. But you have
as much insight on her as we do. To the best of my knowledge she has never gone
up to anyone in Las Vegas and whispered in their ear: "This is what I am really
like...."
4. How do I score with a stripper?
A: You don't. They are working.
3. Where is a good place to eat?
A: Figure it out.
2. How much?
A: This is a question frequently asked to women who live here by tourists.
Translation: Are you a hooker? It is never appreciated, not even by hookers.
1. Do people actually live in Las Vegas?
A: Yes.
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I can personally attest that your answer to #4 is incorrect. (Long story.)
Posted by: crazymonk | June 18, 2007 at 12:48 PM
2. I really don't think you phrased that question correctly. Its not how much? Its have you been tested for STD's lately?
Back in 1998 or 1999, a news article in the Las Vegas Review Journal and or Local news channel put out a scary statistic. It said that roughly 70% of single women in Las Vegas carry some form of STD, mainly HIV. WOW. So that means the guys that were with them are the culprits or receivers of such a gastly prize.
Tell the truth about some things in Vegas will ya.
I lived there for 10 years before I left that city.
Posted by: Monster Seven | June 19, 2007 at 08:42 AM
70%??? Come on, that's pretty drastic. I'd like to see what kind of research resulted in that statistic.
Posted by: David | June 20, 2007 at 02:19 PM
Very insightful and funny. I'm sending it to my lawyer friend who has lived in vegas for years. HE is a very clever and exacting man. I wonder what her will agree with.
Posted by: Madeleine | June 24, 2007 at 07:47 PM
Hi MB, I thoroughly enjoyed this and you inspired me to write my own list (from the point of view of a new resident):
http://www.sincityliving.com/top-ten-annoying-questions/29/
Posted by: Tom | July 03, 2007 at 10:28 AM