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Sweetener World Tour: SURVIVAL GUIDE

Hi everyone! I’m seeing so many repetitive questions regarding ticket prices, presales, merch, etc., so I figured I’d try to collect everything into one post that y’all can reference. Please correct me if anything is wrong. Feel free to add your own info and experiences or ask questions in the comments. You can also look up @GrandeTourNews on Twitter, they seem to be really helpful and constantly answering questions!
NEW TOUR DATES
November 9 – Nassau, NY @ Nassau Memorial Coliseum
November 12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
November 15 – Charlottesville, VA @ John Paul Jones Arena
November 17 – Lexington, KY @ Rupp Arena
November 19 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
November 22 – Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
November 24 – Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
November 25 – Orlando, FL @ Amway Center
November 27 – Miami, FL @ American Airlines Arena
December 1 – Jacksonville, FL @ VyStar Veterans Memorial Coliseum
December 3 – Columbia, SC @ Colonial Life Arena
December 5 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
December 7 – Memphis, TN @ FedEx Forum
December 9 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
December 12 – Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Arena
December 13 – Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center
December 15 – Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena
December 17 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
December 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum
TICKETS GO ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON JULY 1ST AT 10 AM LOCAL TIME. You can get tickets on TicketMaster, LiveNation and the venue’s official website. There are presales on 6/26 and 6/28, read more about those below. I highly recommend looking up your specific show and checking when and where they’ll be on sale, just in case it differs.
REGULAR TICKET PRICES
Although it appears prices do vary venue to venue, the range is pretty similar across the board. At my venue, the cheapest tickets were the upper levels, they cost $39.95-$80. The lower levels were $100-$160, floor was $160-$200. These are just regular tickets (not VIP) and these prices are BEFORE taxes and fees. Fees vary venue to venue. You can purchase tickets from LiveNation, TicketMaster or [usually] directly from the venue per their website or box office.
VIP PACKAGE PRICES
Here is the website for VIP tickets. On the right hand side is a breakdown of what is included in each package. As you can see the new tour dates are listed as “coming soon!” VIP packages will be available during the TicketMaster presale. VIP also go on sale at the same time as general public. According to @grandetournews, most of the VIP packages sell during the presale and a few are reserved for the general public sale. There are a few VIP packages. The meet and greet package that comes with a ticket and is around $1000+ (if anyone has purchased one, please let us know how much it cost, if you don’t mind!) The meet and greet package WITHOUT a ticket is $799, and you have to purchase a ticket separately. I can’t find exact prices for the two sound check packages, but there is one that comes with a GA pit ticket and one with a reserved seat ticket. Hopefully I can edit this post with more info regarding VIP prices and procedures!
T-MOBILE PRICES AND HOW TO
For the last North American legs of Ariana’s tour, she teamed up with T-Mobile to offer T-Mobile customers pit tickets. Note, it has NOT been announced yet whether they’ll be teaming up again for the new North American dates, but it seems likely. The price was $245 per ticket before taxes and fees. T-Mobile tickets go on sale 30 days before each show. You need a special code to access the T-Mobile sale, and you do need to be a T-Mobile customer to get a code. HOWEVER, you do not need to be a T-Mobile customer in order to use the tickets. You want to redeem your sale code 1-3 days before the sale, as the codes expire 5 days after you get it. When the time comes to get your code, go to this website this website and type in your T-Mobile phone number. You will then get a text with a pin number. Enter the pin number on the screen and you will be given a special code. On the day of the sale, go to whatever website is hosting the sale (for most venues it’s TicketMaster, for my venue in Philly, it was the venue’s website) and look for a button that says “T-MOBILE SALE” “T-MOBILE OFFER” or something along those lines. You’ll then be prompted to enter your special code which will unlock the sale. You can purchase a maximum of four tickets. If they say they’re sold out, keep trying for at least 15 minutes!
AMEX PRESALE
One way to purchase tickets before the general public is through the American Express presale. You need to be an AmEx card holder in order to access the sale and you must use that card to purchase the tickets. Only a small amount of tickets are set aside for AmEx presale so if you don’t get tickets or the seats you want, I recommend trying again for the general public sale! AmEx presale is set for Wednesday 6/26 at 10 AM local time.
LIVENATION PRESALE
LiveNation presale begins June 28 at 10 AM. You just need a LiveNation/TicketMaster account to access. Presale code is: GROOVE.
RESALE TICKETS
Resale tickets can be purchased through TicketMaster for most shows. Some reputable resale websites are StubHub, Vivid Seats, and SeatGeek. I highly advise against buying tickets from anyone on CraigsList and/or your show’s FaceBook page. VIP tickets can not be resold or transferred, so do not buy those.
GENERAL TICKET BUYING TIPS
-Make sure whatever device(s) you plan to use are charged and your internet is running smoothly
-Have a tab open early so you are on the website right at 10 AM (for example) on the dot
-If your purchase requires a “code,” have it copied ahead of time so you can just paste it when needed
-Have your credit card handy or have the information stored in your account for quick check out
-Have a friend try for tickets too!
PIT SET UP
At the SWT, the stage has a runway that creates a half circle, with the pit area being contained within that half circle. The pit is also split in half down the center by barricades and there is a small stage where Ariana occasionally runs trough and performs. On one side of the split is the VIP pit. Anyone who purchases a GA VIP ticket will be on that side. On the other side of the split is the T-Mobile pit. Anyone who purchases a T-Mobile ticket will be on that side. Here is a good photo of the stage.
SWEETENER PASSES
Awhile ago when Ari released some Sweetener merch on her website, she also released the “Sweetener Pass.” The pass cost $10 and offered “additional perks” for anyone attending the SWT. The “perk” is that there will be a separate line for anyone with a Sweetener Pass and they will be let into the venue first, and therefore will have an advantage at getting merch or getting a good spot in the pit. However since the tour started, there have been conflicting reports about how effective the passes were. As far as I know, Sweetener Pass holders do not get in the door “early,” however when the doors open, the staff is supposed to let in the Sweetener Pass line before anyone else. In reality, the pass holders get just a few minutes to their advantage. Some concert goers reported that there wasn’t even a Sweetener Pass line in their city! There was previously a rumor that Sweetener Pass holders got in the venue two hours early–that is NOT true and I strongly advise against paying $100s for a pass!
MERCH PRICES
-T-shirts: $40
-SweeteneTUN Duo Shirt: $50
-Sweatshirts: $65
-Long sleeve shirts: $55
-Hoodies: $75
-Hats: $40
-Posters: $20
-Sweatpants: $40 Apparently the sweatpants have been $70-80 according to concert goers!
Here are photos of the merch and all the prices for different countries.
MERCH TIPS
-Keep in mind that merch has/does/can sell out.
-The merch stands will be open when the show ends.
-Know what you want ahead of time!
-Bring cash! A lot of times merch stands have a line specifically for people with cash because it’s faster than credit card transactions.
-Not all tables will have every piece of merch, so be sure you’re standing in line for the merch you want to get. At my show in Boston the merch was split across stations. I ended up wasting time in one line because I didn’t realize that table didn’t have the hoodie I wanted.
-You can try on the shirts and hoodies over your clothes before you buy, so make sure you’re getting the right size. You likely won’t be able to easily exchange once you leave the line. I found that the hoodies ran a size small and was really glad I tried it on first.
PIT TIPS
-Get there early! According to what I’ve read here and on Twitter, if you are in line when the doors open, you should get a spot along the barricade.
-Grab a water bottle, a snack, a beer, whatever when you get inside the venue and bring it to the pit. You probably won’t want to leave the pit once you’ve gotten your spot!
-Consider wearing high shoes if you’re short! They don’t need to be traditional heels of course, there are lots of cute platform sneakers and sandals that give height and are more comfortable! I’m 5’2” and honestly didn’t have much of a problem, I wore short block heels and had a great view!
-If you see Joan or anyone standing between the barricade and the runway, please do not draw attention to them! At my show Joan came out for thank u, next and was escorted away when too many people tried to get her to take selfies. Calmly waving is cool, begging for selfies or relentlessly calling their names while they’re just trying to enjoy the show is not.
TIME
The schedule for most of the shows is doors at 7, show starts at 8.
Social house: 8-8:20
Normani: 8:30-9
Ari: 9:30-11ish
This of course varies depending what time your show starts. Make sure to check what time your show is!
CLEAR BAG POLICY
Per Ariana’s bag policy on TicketMaster’s website, all fans may carry ONE bag that must be CLEAR and fall under 12” x 6” x 12”. All items inside must be clearly visible and cannot be stored inside of additional bags. This means that you cannot bring wallets, change purses, makeup bags, etc. All items must be individually placed in the clear bag, including cash, IDs or credit cards. Exceptions will be made for medically necessary items. If you don’t plan on purchasing a new clear bag for the event, ziplock bags work great and are allowed! As far as I know, portable chargers are allowed, cameras are NOT. (Cell phone cameras are allowed of course!)
I’ve seen some comments saying the security at their show let them have wallets, etc., in which case the security is NOT following the policy Ariana and her team created to ensure our safety. PLEASE follow the bag policy to a tee so everyone will be safe and check in will be smooth. I was forced to throw out my wallet because I didn’t fully read the policy beforehand! It’s not worth the extra hassle, just follow the rules :)
WHAT TO WEAR
If you’re looking for some Ariana merch to wear to the show, H&M has a few t shirts and so does Hot Topic. I do not recommend buying from Ariana’s online store with a future date in mind, there’s a chance it won’t come in time. If you’re looking for a signature Ariana pony, this is a really good one! Most people at the show I went to were dressed as Ariana. Tons of thigh high boots, platform shoes, oversized sweaters, off the shoulder jackets, huge ponytails, etc. I definitely see concerts an excuse to go crazy and wear something I normally wouldn’t. Have fun and be confident!

Some conflicting info i’m seeing:

-According to @grandetournews, this time around there won’t be a meet and greet package that comes WITHOUT a ticket. The only meet and greet packages they are selling will come with a ticket. This is contrary to what I’m seeing in the comments here, but it does match the package descriptions on the website.
-There will be no meet and greet upgrades this time around–just the packages.
-Also seeing conflicting things about the LiveNation and TicketMaster presales. I highly recommend having an account and being logged in if you plan on accessing either of those presales. I am still working on figuring out what codes are required, but as far as I know GROOVE is the code for LiveNation. BIRTHDAY is the code for the “artist presale.” I’ll update if I can confirm more info!
Edited with more information from comments :)
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Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin Viewing Guide, FAQs, and more

It might have taken a while, but nobody is complaining. Oscar De La Hoya has made good on his promise that the best will face the best.
This Saturday (September 16th) Gennady Golovin defends his middleweight titles against the lineal middleweight champion, Canelo Alvarez. The pay-per-view will go live at 5 PM pacific time. You can find a breakdown below of the estimated ring walk times, what channel to catch it on, and more.
Saul Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin
49-1-1 (34 KOs) RECORD 37-0 (33 KOs)
27 AGE 35
156.5 lbs LAST 5 AVG WEIGHT 159.2 lbs
5'9" HEIGHT 5'10 1/2"
70 1/2" REACH 70"
Guadalajara, Jalisco 🇲🇽 HOMETOWN Los Angeles, California 🇺🇸
5-0 (3 KOs) LAST 5 5(4)-0
1-0 (0 KOs) @ >= 160 37-0 (33 KOs)
4-0 (2 KOs) >154<160 N/A
8-1 (4 KOs) IN LAS VEGAS N/A
10-1 (6 KOs) IN TITLE FIGHTS 19-0 (18 KOs)
1-0 (0 KOs) IN UNIFICATION 2-0 (2 KOs)
5-0 (2 KOs) VS SOUTHPAW 6-0 (5 KOs)
44-1-1 (32 KOs) VS ORTHODOX 31-0 (28 KOs)
7-1 (5 KOs) VS UNDEFEATED 3-0 (3 KOs)
67% KO% 89%
30% KO% > 154 89%
353 TOTAL RDS BOXED 172
986-198-47 TOTAL OPP. RECORD 747-167-30
80% TOTAL OPP. WIN % 79%
19-4-1 AVG OPP. RECORD 20-5-1
lineal TITLE IBF, WBA, WBC
+140 MONEYLINE -140

Accolades

Saul Alvarez's World Titles Held/Won

Gennady Golovkin's World Titles Held/Won

How To Watch

Live

Canelo-Golovkin happens Saturday September 16th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tickets can be found on the usual second hand sites.

Closed Circuit

Tickets for closed circuit telecast at the following resorts: Bellagio, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, Mirage, Monte Carlo, New York-New York, Luxor, and Circus Circus are $75 (with additional fees). Seating is general admission and can be purchased through MGM Resorts International Box Office, through Ticketmaster, or by calling 800-745-3000.

TV

Country Channel Price Time Note
🇺🇸 HBO PPV $79.95 5PM PDT
🇬🇧 Box Nation $16.95 1AM BST In pounds
🇲🇽 TV Azteca Free 5PM PDT
🇲🇽 Televisa Free 5PM PDT
🇨🇦 Indigo $79.99 5PM PDT In canadians
🇦🇺 Main Event $39.95 9/17 10AM AEST In digeridoos
🇩🇪 DAZN Free 2AM CET Monthly cost
🇯🇵 DAZN Free 9/17 10AM JST Monthly cost
🇫🇷 beIN Sports 3 Free
🇧🇷 Fox Sports Free
🇸🇪 Viaplay Monthly
🇿🇦 SportSport 2 Monthly 2am CAT
Is your country missing but you know what the info is? PM me.

Online

Canelo-Golovkin can be ordered online through RingTv. This will not include the HBO broadcast.
PS4 users can also order using the Live Events app.

Sling TV

You may order the fight through Sling TV's pay-per-view service.

Theaters

Canelo-Golovkin can be seen on the big screen through Fathom Events. Use the tool on their website to locate a theater near you. This is a highly recommended way to watch the fight without paying the full price for pay-per-view.

Bars, Grills, and Restaurants

US users click here. Type in Canelo and your city and you'll see the closest places showing the fight to you.
UK users click here. There's a list of places in the UK showing the fight.
Canada users, same as above. Click here
If you still need a place, use the advanced search on Twitter and put in your a search like this under 'Any of these words' canelo, golovkin, bar, your-city. So for me I'd search: canelo, golovkin, los angeles, bar
Facebook is also useful for doing these searches.
Please search before you ask. If you have a place, please post it here.

Ring Walks

All times are local (pacific time). Brits add 8.
Estimated Start Fight
5:10 PM Ryan Martin vs Francisco Rojo
5:50 PM Randy Caballero vs Diego De La Hoya
7:00 PM Joseph Diaz Jr vs Jorge Lara
8:00 PM Saul Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin

Undercard

  • Ryan Martin is an undefeated lightweight prospect on the rise. He'll face his toughest challenge to date in his career against Francisco Rojo. Rojo is a domestic Mexican contender who should give him some rounds.
  • Caballero vs De La Hoya is an interesting matchup. De La Hoya has proven over his last several fights that he's still pretty far from making it on the world scene. Caballero has fought on the world level and looked good each time. On paper, this is a step too far for De La Hoya.
  • Diaz Jr is a clever offensive fighter with a deep amateur background and a ton of potential to become one of the top guys at featherweight. The problem recently is that he's been vulnerable on defense and gotten himself dragged into wars. Lara is one of the most explosive young fighters in all of boxing. He's got power in both hands and doesn't know how to fight other than to have a tear up. This has potential to be one of the best fights of the year.

Pay-Per-View Statistics

Top PPV Purchases Of All Time

  1. Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao - 4,600,000
  2. Oscar De La Hoya vs Floyd Mayweather - 2,400,000
  3. Floyd Mayweather vs Canelo Alvarez - 2,200,000
  4. Evander Holyfield vs Mike Tyson II - 1,990,000
  5. Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson - 1,970,000
  6. Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield - 1,590,000
  7. Mike Tyson vs Peter McNeeley - 1,550,000
  8. Floyd Mayweather vs Miguel Cotto - 1,500,000
  9. Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez - 1,400,000
  10. Floyd Mayweather vs Shane Mosley - 1,400,000

Alvarez-Golovkin PPV Purchaes

  1. Floyd Mayweather vs Canelo Alvarez - 2,200,000
  2. Canelo Alvarez vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr - 1,200,000
  3. Miguel Cotto vs Canelo Alvarez - 900,000
  4. Canelo Alvarez vs Amir Khan - 600,000
  5. Canelo Alvarez vs Alfredo Angulo - 350,000
  6. Canelo Alvarez vs Liam Smith - 300,000
  7. Canelo Alvarez vs Erislandy Lara - 300,000
  8. Gennady Golovkin vs Daniel Jacobs - 170,000
  9. Gennady Golovkin vs David Lemieux - 150,000

Las Vegas Live Gates

  1. Floyd Mayweather vs Saul Alvarez - $20,003,150 / 16,146
  2. Miguel Cotto vs Saul Alvarez - $12,470,200 / 10,198
  3. Canelo Alvarez vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr - $10,631,850 / 17,143
Highest MMA Gate In Vegas Ever: $10,746,248

New York Live Gates

  1. Gennady Golovkin vs Danny Jacobs - $3,700,000 / 19,901
  2. Gennady Golovkin vs David Lemieux - $2,000,000 / ~20,000

Officials

Referee

Kenny Bayless

Without a doubt Kenny Bayless is one of the best referees in the sport. Anytime Bayless is the 3rd man in the ring you can be assured he's going to call it down the line and won't tolerate any excessive fouling. Bayless is a twin and is based in Las Vegas. He is frequently called upon to handle the biggest fights in boxing.
Notable Fights: Carl Frampton vs Leo Santa Cruz II, Jessie Vargas vs Manny Pacquiao, Gilberto Ramirez vs Arthur Abraham, Floyd Mayweather vs Andre Berto.
Previous Alvarez Fights: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, Amir Khan, Floyd Mayweather.
No previous experience with Golovkin.

Judges

Adalaide Byrd

Adalaide Byrd is one of the most consistent judges in Las Vegas. She's frequently called upon for big pay-per-view events and title fights.
Byrd is frequently on the money with her scorecards and doesn't have a long track record of bad scorecards you can dig up. If she can be pinned to a style preference, it is hard power shots over activity. Also, Byrd is pretty consistent in not giving away rounds because a fighter performs better in a round than they did earlier in the fight.
Notable scorecards: Benavidez-Gavril (116-111 Benavidez. She was closest to being right of the 3 judges), Brook-Spence (97-92 Spence. Depends on if you're British. Most feel this is accurate), Donaire-Magdaleno (118-110 Magdaleno. Mostly accurate, possibly a little wide), Usyk-Glowacki (119-109, fine score).
Previous Alvarez scores: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (120-108 for Canelo. Same score as when I worked the heavy bag today), Amir Khan (48-47 Khan. A rare card where Byrd favored activity over power shots.)
Previous Golovkin scores: Dominic Wade (KO2, no score needed), Willie Monroe Jr (50-43 Golovkin, perfect).

Dave Moretti

Moretti is frequently on the money with his cards, but every now and then is prone to a card that isn't good. Moretti has shown that he can sometimes show a bias toward the A-side and will take matters into his own hands if the referee is not wiling to deduct points.
Questionable scorecards: Pacquiao-Vargas (114-113 Pacquiao, probably too close), Benavidez-Herrera (117-111 Benavidez, not good), Mayweather-Alvarez (116-112 Mayweather, Alvarez didn't win more than 1 round), and De La Hoya-Sturm (115-113 De La Hoya, not good).
Notable scorecards: Benavidez-Gavril (117-111 Benavidez, a little too wide), Mayweather-McGregor (87-83, far too close), Ward-Kovalev II (67-66 Ward, accurate), Santa Cruz-Frampton II (115-113 Santa Cruz, accurate).
Previous Alvarez experience: Chavez Jr (120-108 Alvarez.), Cotto (119-109 Alvarez), Lara (115-113 Alvarez), Mayweather (116-112 Mayweather).
No previous experience with Golovkin.

Don Trella

Trella is a Connecticut based judge being brought in, as Las Vegas typically does, to balance out the team.
Trella's style, if he has one, is that he can be a bit indecisive. He doesn't show any outright style preference and his cards tend to be closer than the other judges. His cards are frequently accurate and nothing sticks out as irresponsible.
Questionable scorecards: Rigondeaux-Francisco (97-93 Rigondeaux. Either he fell asleep or just didn't care. Or he was protesting.), Ruenroeng-Casimero (116-110 Ruenroeng. It was a far closer fight than that.)
Notable scorecards: Joshua-Klitschko (96-93 Joshua, acceptable), Williams-Smith (86-85 Williams, accurate), Shiming-Phaprom (120-107, accurate).
No previous Alvarez experience:
Previous Golovkin experience: Jacobs (115-112 Golovkin. Seen as the most accurate score of the fight), Geale (20-17 Golovkin, accurate).
Summary: These judges are alright. None bring up any red flags. There aren't many skeletons in the closet and when the lights are brightest, none have been caught with their pants down.

Knockdown History

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Christmas Disasters, but some successes

The Holiday Season is over, and I have three instances that make me ecstatic that my wife and I live 3 hours away from her siblings, and some good concrete progress my wife has made in being able to tell her awful siblings to piss off.

Incident One - Pre-Christmas Greedy BIL:

When asking what we should buy our niece and nephew on Facebook messenger, my BIL immediately changed the subject without telling her what to get the kids, and told my wife he wanted a several hundred-dollar set of headphones, and a subscription phone app for karaoke.
My wife tried to politely put him off because this was a thinly disguised attempt to get her credit card information into his phone to buy the app. Also, we can’t afford such nice headphones for ourselves. Not that he cares, but we are paying more than 50% of our income into medical debts right now and are financially really tight.
This was his response that my wife copied over to me so I could see it:
BIL: here’s the deal. So when u asked what I want, it is a moot point from this second. Don’t ever ask all I want. . . it’s a nothing. . . thanks for the thoughts. . . My kids are super good too. So u have plenty of $. Exactly why Christmas is the worst.
BIL: The point of a gift is seeing something and thinking of someone, not for you to ask what people like or don’t like. Then do what you’re going to do anyways. It shows the lack of actual love you have. Take your money and shove it up your twat. How about that?
BIL: Me and my family want nothing from you.
We bought the kids gifts anyways. We weren’t going to let him take the kid’s gifts away to make a point to my wife. The kid’s mother (he’s split from the family after a domestic violence charge) was happy we made that decision and said the kids would have been crushed if we had forgot them. They are very poor, and we tend to give higher dollar gifts to try and make up for that on Xmas and birthdays. Usually tablets, game systems, that kind of thing. My BIL was jealous that we were willing to pay for the kids, but not him.
This was the first time she told her brother straight up no about money related requests. Success!

Incident Two - The Vegas Xmas Fiasco:

My BIL left in-patient treatment and flew to Vegas with a woman he had known for 8 days over Xmas, with the intention of marrying her. (This is the 3rd attempt at marriage in 6 weeks.) The fiancé paid for everything. My BIL was in an electric wheelchair because he had just had surgery to repair his leg that was broken in 6 places. (We’ve only gotten a squirrely story on how that happened.)
Three days in, there was a fight, and he was abandoned in a paid hotel room at the MGM Grand. He only had his ID, no credit card, and not a cent to his name. He is a moron. He had the room for one more night until his flight home.
The lucky lady bailed on my BIL, which was probably the best choice she could have made. He called for help to my wife and I in Seattle, and we called the hotel, attempting to put our credit card on the room to keep him in the prepaid room.
The problem was that the hotel has to have an active credit card on file for the room, even if it is paid for, in order to charge the daily resort fees. My wife panicked because he had a broken leg. I suspect she would have probably let him rot in Vegas if he didn’t have the broken leg. This was not something my wife could let go of. He literally has nobody else to get him back home.
We spent all day setting up payment at the hotel, only to find out he’d run up room expenses he had just "forgotten" to tell us about. They can’t take payment for room expenses on the card we set up, or over the phone. We ended up charged for the Hotel resort fees for his room, even though he got himself locked out.
At this point we confirmed his flight home was cancelled by his “fiancé” (Smart lady), because he hadn't checked, and we did not believe for one minute that things were "fine." We told him to go to the airport and we would get him on a flight home. He’d just have to wait it out at the airport since he’d lost the hotel room.
During all this, my 40-year-old BIL spent his time on the phone losing his mind at my wife. I heard it all on speaker, and noticed he was joking with others in the background and his behavior was getting more and more erratic. He then told my wife he was not going home, and he hung up on her. My wife was so worried she did not sleep all Xmas Eve and kept trying to call him. He’d found folks to get him a drink and get him high. Some partiers took him along with them to party, and my BIL wanted another night of partying in Vegas.
My BIL called back at 0500 Xmas morning with his electric wheelchair near dead on the side of the road in Vegas.
Then my wife did something I have never seen her do before. When my BIL started swearing and yelling at her to fix the situation for him, she hung up on him. He called back a half hour later but was much nicer. No apologies, but he ready to go back home. That's a huge success for her!
Because of the holiday traffic on Xmas day, would couldn’t get him a flight home until the next day. My wife called around and found a La Quinta that was 1.5 miles down. He managed to get his dying wheelchair there.
I don’t think I could have stopped my wife from doing this. However, she’s starting to come around and realize she doesn’t have to jump in and save everyone. I really do think if he hadn’t had a broken leg, she would have dumped him.
We are out $500+ for all of this. My wife’s therapist, which I go to as support occasionally, has really keyed in on the fact that she feels she has to save these people and seems to think that’s normal. This incident and the therapy has really seen some breakthroughs where she had never realized she did this so much. I’m hoping she can stop helping him, and I am seeing progress. Baby steps, but still a success.

Incident Three - My SIL crawls out from under a rock:

My SIL is pretty awful, and in the last 30 years of being with my wife, she has only talked to us when she thinks she can get money from us. This literally includes an email one time telling us she doesn't only talk to us about money she wants, then asking us to pay her rent.
Backstory
Before my MIL passed, my wife took all the family photo albums, and worked on scanning and repairing the photos in photoshop. My MIL told my wife to keep them when we offered to bring them back because my wife and I are the only kids that are even remotely stable, so we had those photos before my MIL died. My wife would repair them, print new ones, and give them to her mother and the rest of the family periodically.
About six months after my MIL’s death, my wife completed the project. At our expense, we printed out multiple sets of photos for folks without computers. We then created 10 USB drives with all the photos and gave them out to literally everyone that we could. This included my SIL and her family, and my BIL.
The Drama
My wife has gotten much better at photoshop and spent the last few months redoing some of those scans and updating and repairing them. Her goal was to improve the quality, organize them, and archive them.
She mentioned this on Facebook. (It’s always Facebook with the drama.) When her sister came out swinging about how on her deathbed, my MIL had willed all the photos to her, not my wife.
This was a weird pack of lies. My MIL was not even awake or talking at the hospice house. My SIL called my wife selfish and how she was insulting my MIL's dying wish. It was a lot of cutting insults.
My wife offered to print her a full physical copy of the repaired photos. The originals are all kind of damaged in one way or another which is why my wife was repairing them in photoshop. That wasn’t good enough for my SIL. She wanted the originals because she didn’t want my wife to have them.
My MIL didn’t know my wife was transgender because my wife transitioned shortly after her death. Part of the issue is my SIL doesn’t want my wife to have anything from her mother because it should go to the “only” daughter. It’s a way to attack my wife and deny my wife is a woman.
My wife and I have been together for 30 years, and I started out as the wife in the relationship, and she started out as the husband. When I transitioned female to male some years back, my in-laws were completely 110% on board with supporting me in my transition. I have no doubt, they would 110% support my wife as their daughter, with her transition male to female.
It's hard to tell because my SIL has old skinhead ties, and alt-right connections, and has some pretty fucked up views on LGBTQ, race, etc. She's got the full collectors edition of bigotries, but hasn't hit on that outright with us. Once again, probably because it's hard to get money from people when you are telling them shitty bigoted things.
Unlike every other time one of her siblings have asked her for something outrageous, my wife held her ground. She offered a copy of photos, printed out at Walgreens. She offered to pay for them, even. My SIL said that wasn’t good enough and blocked my wife. This is the first time I’ve seen my wife refuse my SIL anything, so that’s a big success.

Aftermath

What my BIL and SIL don't realize is my wife is going to therapy a lot. She has finally found a really good therapist that really has been helping my wife with the issues with her childhood. These three incidents were all my wife talked about over the holidays, and I'm not sure those two vipers will ever get what they want. Each time they act up, it's finally starting to be clear to my wife they don't care about her, just her wallet.
I also think we are going to start seeing an extinction burst, or something like that, because my wife is now saying no to their demands. I'm on the lookout for it, but I'm not sure my wife is fully aware that this could get worse before it gets better.
It's still a success, though.
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List of Happy Hours in Vegas

Here is a list of happy hours I prepared with my wife prior to going to Vegas our last time (July 2017)
Posted this in a thread asking for happy hours and I figured it would be a good idea to have it as it's own post.
This is not a complete list, but has most of the strip/downtown hotels.
Cosmo
HOLSTEINS SUNDAY - THURSDAY | 3:30 – 5:30PM Visit the bar and lounge area at Holsteins Shakes and Buns during The Social Hour to dig into sliders, wings and other comfort food favorites for only $10 each. Wash them down with select draft microbrews for $6, featured cocktails for $8 or a chef's selection Bamboozled Shake for $10.
SCARPETTA MONDAY – THURSDAY 5:30 – 7PM Enjoy $7 small bites and cocktails. An earthy yet sophisticated approach to Italian cuisine, featuring a soulful menu of seasonally-inspired fare created by award-winning Chef Scott Conant.
ESTIATORIO MILOS MONDAY – SUNDAY | 5 – 6:30PM Enjoy the Milos Meze menu and cocktail specials. Mediterranean cuisine serving the freshest, most pristine imported seafood daily by restaurateur Costas Spiliadis.
Flamingo
** CENTER CUT STEAKHOUSE – Definitley GO here 5-7pm DAILY 5-7 DAILY OFFERED IN THE BAR & LOUNGE 9-10 LATE-NIGHT HAPPY HOUR OYSTERS ON THE HALF-SHELL 6 champagne mignonette, pomegranate, fresh cracked black pepper and chef’s selection of east & west coast oysters SEASONAL CEVICHE 7 lime-marinated seasonal fish, avocado, cilantro and crispy tortilla DRUNKEN MUSSELS 8 pei mussels, steamed in blue moon with tomato and lemon, served with a garlic crostini CHARRED BEEF CARPACCIO 5 crisp cheese twinkie, dukkah spice and arugula DIRTY-SPICED FRIES 7 bbq brisket, jalapeño, queso and a fried egg 2 WAGYU SLIDERS 9 aged white cheddar cheese, caramelized shallot and brioche CENTER CUT SESAME BEEF SKEWERS 8 pickled shitake salad
Treasure Island
Phil’s Italian Steak House: 4pm – 6pm Monday – Thursday $7 appetizers, premium cocktails, wine
Aryia**
BARDOT BRASSERIE 5-7PM DAILY ** MUST GO KING SALMON TARTARE* 8 fresh & smoked salmon, chive mascarpone, everything brioche PRIME STEAK TARTARE* 8 ground to order, sauce verte, egg yolk, gaufrette potatoes POUTINE LYONNAISE 8 hand cut fries, gruyère cheese, caramelized onions
PH Miracle Mile Shops
3 Cabo Wabo Cantina Every Monday through Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m. get beer and shot specials starting at $5, and a variety of street tacos priced at $2 each.
Paris
Hexx Kitchen + Bar Hexx Kitchen + Bar at Paris Las Vegas has a late-night happy hour every night from 11 p.m. to close as well as from 2 to 6 p.m. Drink specials include beer selections starting at $4; an assortment of wines by the glass, priced at $7: signature cocktails, including the Apples on Fire, made with Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, Angry Orchard hard apple cider and apple juice, priced at $7; and 20 percent off snacks, appetizers and oven-fired pizzas. Snacks and appetizers include spinach artichoke dip, served with pita and crispy tortilla chips; smothered fries covered in pulled pork; cheese curds and barbecue gravy; and crispy broccolini topped with dried chili, citrus and golden balsamic.
LINQ
YARD HOUSE -- THIS ONE IS FANTASTIC HIGHLY RECOMMEND Happy Hour Monday - Friday 3:00PM - 6:00PM LOTS OF OPTIONS
Monte Carlo
6 D.vino Happy hour every Sunday through Thursday from 5-7. and Friday and Saturday from 4 to 11 p.m. includes 50 percent off select appetizers and sliders with drink purchase, $5 well drinks and house white and red wine, $4 draft beers and $7 speciality cocktail of the day.
VENETIAN
7 DB Brasserie DB Brasserie has a great happy hour from 3 to 6 p.m. and 10 to 11 p.m. with small plate dishes not on the normal menu for just $6.
MGM GRAND
9 Emeril's New Orleans Fish House Daily from 2 to 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. to close get oyster specials, Emeril's signature shrimp, okra and Andouille sausage gumbo, coconut curry P.E.I. mussels, Crystal hot sauce fried frogs legs, alligator meatballs and wild shrimp cocktail, all at $6 to $12 each
CAESARS
Spago (Forum Shops): 3pm – close Monday – Sunday Discounted draft beers, Wolfgang Puck wines, specialty cocktails and appetizers
CARMINES – Caesar Forum Shops 2-6pm Mussles $9, Fried Calamari $9
GORDON RAMSEY PUB GRILL 2-5pm Monday through Friday
SLS
15 Katsuya by Starck Head to Katsuya’s bar every Thursday through Monday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. inside for full-sized signature dishes from $4 to $10, specialty cocktails for $7, and hot sake carafes, well drinks, house wine and draft Kirin for $6 each.
NY NY
20 Nine Fine Irishmen Every Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. get $5 pints and cocktails as well as $6 appetizers.
MONTE CARLO
23 The Pub at Monte Carlo Every Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. get $3 pints of Pub Private Label Pale Ale, $3 off all draft beer, $4 select domestic drafts, $6 cocktails and $5 well drinks and house wines. Appetizer specials, including pretzels, beef sliders, and buffalo wings, are available for $3 to $6.
LUXOR
24 Public House Las Vegas Every Monday through Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. and daily from 10 p.m. to close get $3 Bud and Bud Light drafts, while the early happy hour also includes half-priced specialty cocktails and half-priced appetizers.
Mandalay Bay
Burger Bar: 4pm – 7pm (bar only) Sunday – Thursday Discounted apps and drinks House of Blues Happy Hour - 7 Days A Week : 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Popcorn Shrimp/Flatbread/Chicken Skewers/Riblets
** RED ROCK RESORT**
Monday – Friday 3pm-6pm Yard House – Good Deals
HEARTHSTONE - STEAK TARTARE – 5-7pm
DOWNTOWN
El Cortez
Parlour Bar: $5 French Champagne – Thursdays “half buck wings” and pint specials: 4 – 6pm and 11pm – 1am daily
Golden Nugget -- Golden Nugget has some great happy hours
Chart House MUST GO FANTASTIC M- F 4-7pm
The Grotto Monday - Friday: 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Red Sushi Daily 4-7pm
Cadillac Mexican Kitchen & Tequila Bar Daily 4-7pm
Tropicana
The Palm Sun – Fri Oscars Steak House – Plaza * MUST GO Daily Happy Hour From 4-7pm, 50% off appetizers, house wine, well liquors and beer
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Streaming, esports, and gaming news highlights - week of September 9, 2019

We're a few days behind this week but back with the 149th edition of The Roundup. As always, quick summaries below with links to the full stories over on the main page.
It was a big week in esports, with new data from Stream Hatchet pointing to enormous viewership growth in esports across the board. Three more Call of Duty League franchises were announced, maybe one in a city near you? Plus a new competition coming to Twitch Rivals for you MTG Arena fans out there. And if collegiate esports is your thing, there may be a national championship in your future.
Hey, we'll be at TwitchCon next week in San Diego! If you like our work (or don't), and you want to say hi, hit us up in Discord or on Twitter. We're always looking to meet people passionate about streaming. Have a great week!
New Stream Hatchet report points to over 40% growth in esports live streaming
TL;DR - At the recent Las Vegas Esports Business Summit, Stream Hatchet unveiled its latest round of industry insights which pointed to huge growth in the esports live streaming market. According to the new report, over the last twelve months and across all streaming platforms, 746 million additional hours of live esports content were consumed - a 41% increase over the prior period. The Esports Business Summit ran from September 10th through the 12th at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
Twitch is bringing its app to the Apple TV ecosystem
TL;DR - For the first time, officially at least, Twitch is launching its own Apple TV app. This week’s announcement was actually for the public beta, but it includes most of the features users are likely accustomed to when using the Twitch app elsewhere. Since it’s a beta version, the app cannot be downloaded via the App Store. Instead, intrepid users must first install the TestFlight app through which they can then get the latest version of the beta.
Three new Call of Duty League franchises announced
TL;DR - The latest three cities to join the upcoming CoD League were revealed to be London, Seattle, and Chicago. The London team was picked up by ReKTGlobal, with NRG Esports grabbing the Chicago slot and the Aquilini Group and Enthusiast Gaming claiming Seattle. These latest additions bring the tally to 12 teams for next year’s inaugural season. The league stipulates that each team must have alternate players on its roster, and that each player receives a $50k annual salary and a cut of 50% of the team’s overall tournament winnings.
National Women’s Hockey League appoints Twitch as official streaming partner
TL;DR - The entirety of the NWHL’s season will be live streamed and available exclusively on Twitch. This includes the Isobel Cup Playoff, any “unique occasion” matches, and will run for the next three years. As is common with these deals, there are also provisions for additional, exclusive content for Twitch viewers. Any revenue resulting from the deal will be split down the middle between the NWHL and Twitch. The NWHL’s next season gets underway on October 5th.
Twitch, the Raiders, and Allegiant Stadium hope to score big in new partnership deal
TL;DR - Twitch has joined on as a founding partner of Allegiant Stadium, the new home for the NFL’s Raiders, based in Las Vegas and scheduled to wrap construction ahead of the 2020/21 season. The deal includes a Twitch-branded lounge complete with streaming stations, esports events, and just about anything else Twitch can throw in there. Allegiant Stadium is set to be more than just the new home of the Raiders. There are ambitious plans for other sporting events, concerts and, of course, esports competitions. Seating capacity will be 65,000, fully enclosed and under air conditioning. This also makes Twitch the official streaming partner of the Raiders, further entrenching Twitch’s integration into professional football.
A first look at TSM’s new $13M LA training facility
TL;DR - Discussing his plans for the next 10-20 years for TSM, its founder, Andy ‘Reginald’ Dinh, shared details on the team’s new training facility. Dinh toured and drew inspiration from the facilities of local NBA teams the Lakers and the Warriors for inspiration before planning out TSM’s. In the plans are a streaming and gaming room, wellness center, coaching rooms, a fitness studio, and a sports psychologist Dinh claims it will be the largest such facility in North America at 25,000 square feet with a $13M price tag. Opening is planned for February 2020 with construction expected to begin this month.
Twitch Rivals to host Standard 2020 Constructed MTG Arena event
TL;DR - Forty streamers will compete next week in the MTG Arena Standard Constructed 2020 event hosted by Twitch Rivals. The prize pool hasn’t been announced yet, but players will have limited access to the new Throne of Eldraine set. Participants are permitted cards from four other MTG sets to fill out their decks including Guilds of Ravnica, Ravnica Allegiance, War of the Spark, and Core Set 2020. The event can be watched on the Twitch Rivals channel Tuesday, September 17th at 3pm EST.
Esports national championship in the works thanks to the NJCAA
TL;DR - The National Junior College Athletic Association, the governing body for junior colleges, announced it’s working on establishing an esports national championship for all of its 2-year schools. The NJCAA has teamed up with sports agency CSMG and Legacy Esports to bring the vision to life. Legacy will be tasked with scheduling and operations, with CSMG addressing all commercial needs. Broadcast rights are yet to be sorted out, but it seems they’re open to all options. The championship tournament will take place next April, with winners taking home scholarships, gaming gear, and other enhancements for their schools’ esports initiatives.
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Going to Vegas in July - I've been doing my research so hope this can help others.

I'm going in July and have done some research.
Plenty of this is from the sidebar, but other notes are from many of other sources.
The Vegas Degenerate Tour ( . ) ( . )
Things to do:
Tips:
Clubs
Food
Sex/Swingers Clubs (Or; no, you filthy pervert - what's wrong with you?)
Drive:
Drive along east CA down US-395 and crossing over to Nevada after Death Valley is one of the greatest drives I have ever done.
Guides:
Edited to include corrections.
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Conference Learning Tips

Here are the conference learning tips I’ve got so far. Please comment and share your thoughts about these as well as any additional tips you may have.
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  1. Attend with purpose
I generally register for conferences well ahead of time, and by the time the actual date rolls around, I often find myself sitting on a plane with little more than a vague sense of what I hope to get out of the days ahead. These days, I make it a point to write down 3 to 4 high level objectives I hope to achieve and paying attention to whether I am making progress towards them throughout the event.
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  1. Review education sessions ahead of time
Related to the point above, I spend time looking at the various session that will be available at the conference and determining which ones it makes most sense for me to attend. I put the times and places into my Google calendar before I go – or, if there is one, I may use the event app for this. I also jot down some concrete objectives I hope to achieve in each session along with questions I may want to ask. Overkill? Maybe – but given the money and time involved, I want to get a good return.
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  1. Take notes
Regular readers here know my feelings about taking notes (a topic I also cover in 10 Ways to Be a Better Learner). Writing things down is a simple, straightforward approach to enhancing your learning, but we tend to slack off on it once we exit the world of formal schooling and grades. I always have my Moleskin notebook handy. I occasionally will take notes on my computer or iPad (in Evernote), but I prefer to take notes by hand first – research has proven this is more effective – and then transfer the notes to digital later as part of a review process.
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  1. Share your thoughts – but maybe not right away
Occasionally I will use Twitter for capturing quick notes that I can also share with others who are tuned into the conference – whether they are actually there physically or not. (I use Hootsuite for Twitter because this makes it possible for me to easily access my own tweets and other tweets to the conference hashtag later.) I’m not as high on Twitter as I once was, though – I feel like it can interfere with attention too much and may ultimately interfere with learning. A better practice, in my opinion, is to leverage notes taken in sessions to write at least one or two blog posts to help me reflect upon and cement key things I learn.
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  1. Cultivate your network
Networking is one of the main reasons people cite for going to conferences, in my experience, but we’re often pretty haphazard in our networking efforts. I welcome the serendipitous hallway conversation, but I’ll also try to spend time some time – e.g., through reviewing any available attendee lists, or checking out who is in the online community for the event (increasingly common) – figuring out which old friends might be there as well as new people I may want to meet. And, as the previous point suggests, I hope to make many new connections online and share my learning with current connections.
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  1. Take advantage of the exhibits
I think the exhibit hall is a great, often overlooked learning resource. In any given field or profession, vendors are usually one of best sources for practical advice and insight into emerging trends. Whenever there is an exhibit hall, I spend a good bit of time wandering the floor, getting a general sense of new developments, and tracking down specific vendors to ask questions and, as appropriate, get brief demos.
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  1. Conduct audio and/or video interviews
One of the things I like to do on the exhibit floor is conduct interviews with vendors using a simple digital audio recorder, a digital video camera, or my iPhone. The process of coming up with interview questions and then getting the answers is a great learning experience that simultaneously provides me with some excellent content to share on blog posts and/ or YouTube. And, of course, I can easily do the same with speakers in sessions I attend or experts I find wandering the hallways.
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  1. Mind your body
It’s easy to slip into eating too much of the wrong things at a conference – a cookie here, a bag of chips there – and exercise often falls by the wayside. Knowing how important both food and physical activity are for learning, though, I do my best to stay on top of both. I also do my best to avoid the temptations of late night gatherings and get a decent amount of sleep, both to make sure I am prepared to learn and to help me consolidate my learning. Finally, I have been experimenting some with nootropics when attending learning events, and my current view is that they really can give your learning a boost.
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  1. Review, review, review
I’ll say it once again: repetition is the mother of learning. I always spend some time during a conference – each morning or evening – looking back over my notes, reflecting on what I’ve learned, and trying to connect it with what I already know. I also make sure to spend some time in the weeks and months following the conference to revisit my notes. (These are all habits of the serious lifelong learner.)
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  1. Enjoy – and learn from – wherever you are
I was at a conference in Las Vegas a while back and I realized, when I was catching a cab back to the airport, that I had not actually left the MGM Grand in three days. That, I suppose, is part of the Vegas experience, but for most events, I’ve begun making it a point to get out and see something interesting in the local area
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[FIGHT THREAD] Claudio Marrero vs Jesus Rojas, Claudio Marrero vs Juan Carlos Abreu

Date: September 15, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM PDT, 9:00 PM EDT, 2:00 AM BST
Location: MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada 🇺🇸
TV: ESPN 2 (US)
Online: ESPN App

CLAUDIO MARRERO VS JESUS ROJAS

12 rounds

interim WBA world featherweight title

Claudio Marrero vs Jesus Rojas
22-1 (16 KOs) RECORD 25-1-2 (18 KOs)
70% KO % 62%
28 AGE 30
126 lbs WEIGHT 126 lbs
5'8" HEIGHT 5'7"
68 1/2" REACH 67"
southpaw STANCE orthodox
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 HOMETOWN Caguas, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
5-0 (3 KOs) LAST 5 4-0-1 (3 KOs)
-150 MONEYLINE +150

RASHIDI ELLIS VS JUAN CARLOS ABREU

10 rounds

welterweight division

Rashidi Ellis vs Juan Carlos Abreu
18-0 (12 KOs) RECORD 19-3-1 (18 KOs)
67% KO % 75%
24 AGE 30
147 lbs WEIGHT 147 lbs
5'9" HEIGHT 5' 9 1/2"
72" REACH 71"
orthodox STANCE orthodox
Lynn, Massachusetts 🇺🇸 HOMETOWN Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
5-0 (2 KOs) LAST 5 2-2 (1 NC, 2 KOs)
-270 MONEYLINE +200
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Your next classic fight is Manny Pacquiao vs Erik Morales 1! This will take place on Friday 21st April at 7pm PT, 10pm ET, 3am BST.

Poll results:
Pacquiao vs Morales 1 - 119 (37.55%)
Tyson vs Holyfield 1 - 116 (36.95%)
Cotto vs Margarito - 78 (25.5%)
So there was massive want for a Tyson vs Holyfield 1 fight, which we will run at another date seeing as the vote was so close.
The location is https://cytu.be/Classic_Fight_Night.
We will run a couple of short undercard fights for an hour until the fight starts.
Please live score the fight either in the room poll, the chat or using a scorecard app.
In the run up to Cinco de Mayo, the next run of classic fights will be Mexican rivalries. There are some greats in there, Marquez vs Vazquez, Morales vs Barrera, Marquez vs Barrera etc.
Where? - MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada
When? - 19th March 2005

12 Rounds

Vacant WBC Super Featherweight World title

Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao vs Erik "El Terrible" Morales
39(30)-2-2 Record 47(34)-2
68% KO% 69%
5′ 5½″ Height 5′ 8″
67' Reach 72'
27 Age 29
General Santos City, Philippines Hometown San Ysidro, California, USA
$1.75m Purse $2.5m
4(4)-0-1 Last 5 4(2)-1
-180 Moneyline +125
Officials:
Referee: Joe Cortez
Judge #1: Paul Smith
Judge #2: Dave Moretti
Judge #3: Chuck Giampa
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Complete List of Uber and Lyft Pick Up and Drop off Locations in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Travel Wizards - @LVTWs
Uber and Lyft Pick Up Locations
​​Uber and Lyft are changing the game in Las Vegas. Taxis that charge almost criminally exorbitant prices are on their way out! Uber and Lyft are two apps that give you the ability to pick out your driver, see their reviews, and track your entire ride. They put you, the rider, in control. The deals in Las Vegas (especially for gambling!!!) are often found at off strip properties. Uber and Lyft allow you to access parts of Las Vegas where you can find the best deals and the rides are very affordable. It's usually about a $10 UbeLyft ride from the airport to the strip, versus Taxi Rides that have been known to cost upwards of $30.
MCCARRAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LAS VEGAS Terminal 1 Pick-up point: After you collect your baggage or take the train towards baggage claim. Go ahead and request a ride with Uber or Lyft. The pick up spot is in the Parking Garage, on Level 2M of McCarran International Airport Las Vegas to get a pick-up from their driver. Please follow the Rideshare signs.
Terminal 3 Pick-up point:
After you collect your baggage or take the train towards baggage claim. Go ahead and request a ride with Uber or Lyft. The pick up spot to catch your ride is the Parking Garage on the valet level of McCarran International Airport. Please follow the Rideshare signs.
ARIA Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the ARIA Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver. It is not allowed to get a pick-up from the main entrance.
BALLY’S Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the side of the Bally’s Hotel closest to Flamingo Road where the Tour Bus Pick-up Area is to get a pick-up from their driver. It is not allowed to get a pick-up from the main entrance.
BELLAGIO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to South Tour Lobby, which is at the right side of the main entrance of the Bellagio Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
CAESARS PALACE This hotel has a designated area for Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft which is directly across from the main entrance on the other side of their fountain.
CIRCUS CIRCUS This hotel has a designated area for Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft at their Main Entrance.
COSMOPOLITAN This hotel has a designated area for Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft at their Main Entrance.
​CROMWELL Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the side entrance, then past the roundabout at the Flamingo hotel entrance to get a pick-up from their driver (there is a sign for the pick-up spot).
Elara Pickup is by the valet. Just walk a bit west past it and turn right for the pick up area.
ENCORE Customers using Uber or Lyft can go to the main entrance of the Encore Hotel, the main entrance of the Encore Tower Suites or the Wynn self-parking garage on floor one (for Encore Beach Club).
EXCALIBUR Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to Tower 1 Drive at the corner of the hotel, past the main entrance toward self parking.
​FLAMINGO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Flamingo Hotel, past the roundabout to get a pick-up from their driver.
Hard Rock Hotel Pick-up is in the Paradise Tower parking garage (Rehab entrance).
HARRAH’S Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north side entrance and then go to the parking garage, just before the valet of the Harrah’s Hotel.
THE LINQ Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the Bus and Tour Lobby of the LINQ Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
LUXOR Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the Luxor Hotel at the right side to get a pick-up from their driver.
MANDALAY BAY Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the lower level at guest pickup of the Mandalay Bay Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
MANDARIN ORIENTAL Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
MGM GRAND Customers using Uber or Lyft must follow the signs near the main entrance to the pick up spot in the garage of the MGM Grand Hotel.
THE MIRAGE Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance close to the valet at The Mirage Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
MONTE CARLO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go pas the main entrance of the Monte Carlo Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
NEW YORK NEW YORK Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to past the main entrance of the New York New York Hotel at the right side.
PALAZZO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north end, in front of the shuttle area of the Palazzo Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
PARIS Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the Paris Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
PLANET HOLLYWOOD Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the hotel lobby, then go outside and walk left to the Tour Bus Pick-up at the Planet Hollywood Hotel.
SLS Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the SLS Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
STRATOSPHERE Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the back entrance of the Stratosphere Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
TREASURE ISLAND Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Treasure Island Hotel and then go to Siren’s Cove Boulevard across the street.
TROPICANA Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the Tropicana Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
THE VENETIAN Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the 3rd level valet of the The Venetian Hotel parking garage to get a pick-up from their driver.
VDARA Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Vdara Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
WYNN Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the South Entrance or Tower Suites of the Wynn Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
We have a tip for using Uber or Lyft from the airport in Las Vegas that will save you money and help you better enjoy your trip! Simply ask the driver to stop at the CVS on Paradise Rd (4490 Paradise Rd) on route to your hotel so that you can load up on supplies for your hotel room. UbeLyft only charge about $0.20/minute to wait in the parking lot while you go in to the store. What has worked best for us is a folded up green grocery bag (our best option is an IKEA bag) and a thin flat cooler bag in our luggage to use on these runs. Some of our essentials supplies include:
These items would truly cost a small fortune at your hotel or anywhere on the strip and we have found that they really are the essentials (especially the case of water!) when you are in Sin City. When you arrive at your hotel in your UbeLyft, just put your cooler bag with your other luggage and request a bell person. They'll transport your supplies to your room for free with your luggage. Just remember to tip the bell person a few dollars when you drop off the bags and again when the bell person arrives with your luggage in your room!
@LVTWs
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[CLASSIC FIGHT THREAD] Manny Pacquiao vs Erik Morales, Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Arturo Gatti

The location is https://cytu.be/Classic_Fight_Night.
Hard start at: 7pm PT / 10pm ET / 3am BST
Live voice-chat will be held in the Discord also: discord.gg/9C9at
We will run Floyd Mayweather J vs Arturo Gatti (RIP) as an under card fight.
Please live score the fight either in the room poll, the chat or using a scorecard app.
In the run up to Cinco de Mayo, the next run of classic fights will be Mexican rivalries. There are some greats in there, Marquez vs Vazquez, Morales vs Barrera, Marquez vs Barrera etc.
Where? - MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada
When? - 19th March 2005

12 Rounds

Vacant WBC Super Featherweight World title

Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao vs Erik "El Terrible" Morales
39(30)-2-2 Record 47(34)-2
68% KO% 69%
5′ 5½″ Height 5′ 8″
67' Reach 72'
27 Age 29
General Santos City, Philippines Hometown San Ysidro, California, USA
$1.75m Purse $2.5m
4(4)-0-1 Last 5 4(2)-1
-180 Moneyline +125
Officials:
Referee: Joe Cortez
Judge #1: Paul Smith
Judge #2: Dave Moretti
Judge #3: Chuck Giampa
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SHOT 2017/My tales of adventure in Las Vegas

So, you wanna go to SHOT show? You think it's all fun and games? Get to play with guns? See Jesse James and R. Lee Ermey? SHOT show is the annual pilgrimage of the unwashed masses to Las Vegas to rub elbows with youtube celebrities, bloggers and overseas businessmen copying US made equipment and share infectious disease.
If you love guns, gambling and gonorrhea - SHOT show is for you! It is not my typical idea of a good time. I am not a big fan of Las Vegas.
However: I do attend for a few reasons. First, I do enjoy travel and I'm platinum on AA so I can usually score an upgrade. Second, industry people are in there that I do hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars with business with so it's nice to put a face with the name and see what deals are out there. SHOT for me has been a bust for the past few years. Being a value guy, I want to buy at $1000 and sell at $3000 and as of recently the gun business is more like buy for $1 and sell for $1.10 if you get what I mean.
We used to do business at SHOT and now it's just checking in on foursquare, instagram and rubbing elbows with bloggers and the like. I want to make money, not spend money so this is very annoying to me.
Anyways, onto the play by play.
Monday, January 16th. One day before SHOT show.
http://imgur.com/a/HoFUm
Every time I've been rejected by a woman, I move $1 from checking into savings and I take the bankroll down to the Wynn for some play. Lets do this.
The TSA line is a shitshow thanks to, well TSA.
I slog my way to the lounge, as shitty as it is to wait for my winged chariot to DFW. I have gone from being in an abusive relationship with Delta to being in an abusive relationship with AA. Although if you really want to experience the battered spouse feeling, UA is a few gates over. This trip's light reading is trying to finish "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell. Such a good book as well as "Outliers" if you want a good read.
I walk up to the podium to find out that my upgrades do not clear, even as an AA Plat thanks to the addition of a FOURTH elite tier. Goddamn fucking W. Doug Parker. Asshole. I gate check my bags to make life easier for me and the rest of the folks. The gate agent calls concierge key and executive platinum passengers. I look down and realize I'm wearing a suit and board with the executive platinum folks because I do not care and I look the part. If you walk with a purpose and are dressed reasonably well, you fit the profile. I settle into my window seat and try to finish outliers. I pass out before takeoff and I'm awoken by the dulcet tones of the flight attendants preparing for landing. We land at Dallas a few minutes early and I hightail it to the Centurion for a quick bite to eat. I grab a plate and help myself to some of the excellent brisket, pecan encrusted chicken and some roasted jumbo asparagus. Yes, my pee is going to smell funny. No, I do not care. The lounge is packed. The bar is full and I grab a quick single malt as I have my meal since American's not going to feed me. They begin boarding to Mccarran as I walk out of the lounge. No time for a stop in the spa on this trip. I make it to the gate just as the call group 2 boarding.
I bypass the main line and walk up through the priority line giving no heed to the people that have been waiting there before me as I hold up my paper boarding pass with PLATINUM to the gate agent. I board and take my usual seat - the exit row without the seat in front of it. I'm aghast to see this sight.
http://imgur.com/a/dygil
The savages. Literally. The savages.
I put my loathing away for a moment and look down at the exit row. I have the window. The aisle is a large middle aged man and in the middle is what I believe to be a formecurrent linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys wearing a 52 regular sports jacket. He's not a fat guy in a little coat, he's a big fucking hulk of a man stuffed in an exit row seat that is already an inch narrower due to the tray table. I grimace as I take my seat and give him the manly nod. He does not look happy about the fact that his knees are in the seat in front and I'm stretched out like a Cheshire cat in front of a fireplace on a cold January afternoon.
The boarding door closes for an on time departure and Stephanie the FA takes her seat. He leans over and asks if he can take the empty row across the aisle and she takes one look at the three of us and gives him the nod. I bail out to give him a path of egress and suddenly the trip to Las Vegas has just become way more comfortable. I finish The Tipping Point somewhere over west texas, so I pop a xanax and dr pepper and zone out for the rest of the ride. I awake to feel one of the FA's jostling me awake telling me to put my seat up. I do so and we have a ride so smooth that not even the Delta guy behind me can complain about light chop. We catch the TYSSN4 arrival and the next thing I know it the Messier Dowty landing gear of the A321 touch the paint at Mccarran for a smooth rollout down 25L.
My phone battery is approaching grim death since this seat has no power plugs and I find bartman383 has sent me a message. He has been enjoying LV with his wife and their due to bad weather they are in the city of sin for a few extra nights. He invites me to dinner. I'm still pretty full from DFW and I tell him I'll be over there once I get my bags and the car and I'll see him when I see him. He gives me the info for the hotel as we pull up to the gate.
First stop: Centurion lounge. AA's app tells me bags being unloaded. I grab a quick bite of fried chicken and brussels sprouts since they are good for you and a chocolate pudding. The brisket and pecan encrusted chicken from DFW still has me full but I'm well aware of the speed of a union baggage handlers nowadays and who doesn't like chocolate pudding? Terrorists. That's who. Want to know how to screen for terrorists TSA? Set up a table of free chocolate pudding at the airport. The people who don't take any are members of ISIS. It's just that simple.
I grab my bag and hoof it to Hertz. I'm an idiot and I am an hour late for my pickup. Oops. Will an Audi A3 suffice? I sigh and I accept my Teutonic quattro chariot. I do a burnout in the parking garage and hightail it to the exit. I flash my #1 card and my ID and the gatekeeper gives me the go ahead. I get onto the the strip and traffic is awful. I'm going to be late for dinner. I make a left onto Russell Road and hightail it up the 15. I manage to get the car up to 100 as I pass the Luxor. My phone is dead so I can't message Bart about being late. Fuck. The exit approaches quickly as I put the 4 wheel disk brakes to work and sling the car around and head south on Las Vegas Bl. I accidentally turn into the Bellagio and I'm now running even more late. Fuck. Eventually, I get the car into the garage at the Cosmopolitan and head upstairs. I cannot remember the name of the restaurant but I head up to the third floor where all the restaurants are and I see this sign that's reminiscent of my days in retail.
It says RESTAURANT - LOUNGE - PAWN SHOP.
I laugh. I walk in. It's literally a pawnshop. I look around puzzled.
FC: Is this a restaurant?
Bald Headed Guy: Yes, through that door.
He points towards a door. I walk in to find a bustling restaurant, lounge via the entrance of pawnshop. This is insane. I pass a mirror and check myself out. I adjust my tie, after all it is YSL and the ladies LOVE YSL. Remember that. I find the hostess and inform her I will be joining some friends for dinner. They probably do not have me on the reservation though but I turn on the charm and she smiles and says no problem at all. She asks if my tie is from Hermes. I say no, I'm a YSL guy. She looks impressed as I tell her I'll make a quick lap of the room to see if they're there and surprise them. She gives me a nod and tells me to go right ahead. Still got it.
I spot bart and his wife who I can only remember vaguely from gunnitlive after party video and I pull up a chair. Bart is surprised to see I made it and they are in the middle of dinner. They offer to ply me with food and beverage but I decline as I'm driving so no booze for me and no food since I am stuffed from Dallas. We chat about life and liberty over libations. Bart's wife thinks I am hysterical. She's had a few drinks and they are already into their main courses. The brussels sprouts are way too salty and we have to send it back. No bueno.
Bart invites me up to his suite on the top floor of the hotel where we are to meet Brogelicious later in the evening. I say, when in rome......we head to the top floor of the hotel tower where Bart shows me his view from the balcony and cracks open the mini bar for some more libations. He asks if I want a drink and I say I better not. I'm driving.
Not 30 seconds after arriving, brogel shows up. Bart's wife hugs brogel. She's infatuated with him. We start shooting the shit and bart opens up the minibar and tells us to take anything we want, it's on the hotel. I laugh and I look outside as bart opens his yeti 110 for some silver bullets. Apparently he is so baller the hotel will send up a yeti 110 filled with beer to make him happy. His wife is apparently such a baller. I ball on a budget. They just ball. Hahaha.
We shoot the shit some more about guns, gun stuff and people on the reddit for a while. I get a little thirsty and I crack open bart's cooler. I ask him how long the stuff in the cooler is supposed to last and he says until Wednesday.
I look down and I am agape at what I see.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
I mentally prepared my butthole and I decided to help myself to a coors light against my wishes but Bart, Bart's wife and Brogel are all drinking so I let peer pressure take hold as I cracked open a beer with them. We head out to the balcony to smoke some cuban cigars together as bart's wife takes a photo of all of us. We all look like hell. Haha.
As bart downs his second beer, he asks me a question.
Bart: ever go hunting?
Me: Ducks a little bit but not much
Bart: ever want to hunt some deadly game?
Me: Like on african safari?
Bart: No, I mean like.........man.
Me: Hahahahhahaaha you're just fucking with me. Hahahahahhaa. That's really funny.
Bart: No really, the concierge here at this hotel will set it up for us. It's amazing. I remember my first hunt......
Brogel starts laughing and I realize they've been doing a bit. I've been had.
We bullshit about SHOT and Barrett's shotguns and other things and next thing I know, it's late but bart hands me a mixed drink. I sip it a bit and I was in the middle of a tirade complaining about my customers. Suddenly, there was a terrible roar all around us, and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the city, and a voice was screaming: Holy Jesus. What are these goddamn animals? Nobody seems to understand what I'm talking about. It's cold on the balcony. Our cigars are done. We head indoors. No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. Poor bastards will see them soon enough.
Back indoors I realize Brussels sprouts and coors light is a bad choice. Seriously no bueno. I excuse myself to the bathroom and drain the vein. The asparagus funny smelling pee and the side effects of beer and brussels sprouts is a noxious combination that a defense contractor should weaponize it. It's pretty bad and not even cuban tobbaco can mask the smell.
I sit back down and continue to talk about guns and stuff with bart and the gang and bart asks who ruined the bathroom. I apologize as he sprays a bunch of febreze around and opens the balcony. I apolgize to brogel. He is not accepting my apology. (sorry :( )
Nearly 11, it's about time to pull chocks and mosey on down the dusty trail. I don't want to prompt an evacuation of the hotel due to noxious odors so I decide to leave and bart seems to be kinda mad that I've ripped ass and polluted the sanctuary of his hotel. Half a coors light and brussels sprouts are no bueno in my book now. Bart decides to party hard with his wife and I offer brogel a ride home. He seems skeptical to share a confined space with me after I have just destroyed bart's hotel room. The car has 4 windows and the Uber will cost him a few bucks he can put towards ammo. He relents as we head down to the garage to find my car. Thankfully we find it quickly and I manage to contain the weapons of ass destruction for the 16 minute ride off strip to casa de brogel.
He says I'm not that bad a dude and I agree as I hightail it to my hotel. I cannot find my hotel reservations so I call my travel agent to see.
Apparently the Wynn was not in my travel budget this year. I have come to find out I have been booked at Circus Circus, much to my chagrin. How bad could it be? I've stayed at the Wynn. I've stayed at Encore. I've stayed at the hotel that Elisabeth Shue's character got raped in in Leaving Las Vegas - but Circus Circus? Did I mention that I HATE CLOWNS? I HATE CLOWNS. Fuck.
I pull into the parking garage and the check in line resembles something straight out of the TSA line at Mccarran. 45 minutes to check in. The clerk is friendly and says he's also from Louisiana which is neat. He asks if I've stayed there before and I, being a connoisseur of old vegas history I decide to make a joke and I tell him the last time I was there, Jay Sarno owned the place. He got a laugh. I head up to my room and unpack. The lobby is clean as an old vegas casino can be, the room is clean and there's no way to plug anything in since the hotel predates personal electronic devices. I plug my phone into my external battery and collapse on the bed. I message Bart and chugbleach instead of falling asleep about show tomorrow and I offer to pick bart up early since there is no shuttle from the cosmo.
Tuesday, November 16th SHOT Show Day One
I awoke several hours later in a daze......the clock said 10AM. The show opened at 8:30. Fuck me to tears. I hurry up and get dressed and down to the sands convention center. The parking lot is FULL. The entire complex is a mess. When my man Steve Wynn built his joint he didn't build enough parking. So people would park at the Venetian and now FUCKING NOBODY CAN GET A PARKING SPACE. Holy shit. I eventually say fuck it and park over at the Wynn and walk over to the Sands. I meet up with a few of my regular suppliers and I see nothing interesting at all. Bart went to bed at 6AM after spending all night partying with his wife over at the palazzo. I joke and say that he just should have stayed there. Bart is amazed at the size of the show and we have lunch at the most disgusting place in las vegas - the convention center bistro snack bar. Bart is a wise man as he grabs a powerade and a fruit cup. I decide to try an "italian beef" and a fruit cup instead of fries to stay semi health conscious. The "italian beef" is the most disgusting thing I have ever eaten. It is flat out depressing. They give me fries with it and I demand a fruit cup. The sassy black woman working the stand asks me "DID YOU ASK FOR FRUIT? CAUSE RIGHT HERE SAYS FRIES" and I channel my inner Louis CK from the "this is how I talk" bit from SNL as I shoot back "WHY YOU FRONTIN ON ME I ASKED FOR FRUIT AND YOUR ASS BETTER BACK UP AND GET ME SOME FRUIT" so she goes back and gets me some fruit.
The "italian beef", my fruit cup, bart's fruit cup and powerade comes to $81. My platinum amex comes out and I treat bart to "lunch". We bullshit about guns and stuff in the Springfield booth as we wait at the world's worst concession stand. We eat and Bart is so hungover that he thinks he is in need of physical therapy and a wheelchair. There is no way he is going to party tonight before his trip home. Or so I think. Haha.
I meander around the show a bit more and I find this, the most USELESS PRODUCT OF 2017. It's made by a company called radetec.
http://imgur.com/a/GOiCB
It's a shot counter. For your gun.
A digital odometer, for your gun.
The only person that would buy this is the guy like my dad that kept a spiral bound notebook in his car where he documented how many miles he traveled per tank, gallons dispensed, PRICE, service station and whether they had a different price for cash/charge, oil consumption, tire rotations, alignments, all services - scheduled or otherwise, and a running odometer. Does anyone know the gun owner who asks for a round count when they are looking at a used gun? The question I always shoot back is "do you want to be lied at a little or do you want to be lied at a lot?" because that's what you're asking for when you ask for round count.
UNLESS YOU BUY THIS PRODUCT!
I roll my eyes so far back into my head that I nearly lose my balance. This is idiotic. I cannot fathom anyone willing to buy this. What a waste of perfectly good exhibition space.
Bart heads back to his hotel after visiting SHOT show for a few hours, not getting any swag and to get an IV of fluids since he looked like he was rapidly approaching grim death.
I wrap up visiting prime vendors and checking out the new products, or lack thereof because I have something on the schedule. At 4:30 there's a suicide prevention for retailers seminar hosted by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. As many of you know this is an issue that is important to me and perhaps we as retailers should be doing more. The keynote was from their chief medical director talking about the accessibility of firearms and the mindset of the "typical" suicide. Mostly men. If you are a veteran you are at a significantly larger risk. The information was presented very not surprisingly and one of the things discussed was that we only spend around 21M a year on suicide prevention.
A few take away facts from the keynote:
When suicide barriers are put up on a bridge, suicide rates for the entire area drop. The key to preventing suicide is getting people to talk about their problems. Once you can get someone out of that mindset, they are statistically less likely to do it and live productive lives afterwards. There are certain terms that they are trying to get away from - for instance, they are not saying "committed suicide" they are now saying "died by suicide" in order to bring awareness and tell it like it is.
One thing that really was interesting to me was my reading on the flight in from Dallas. In The Tipping Point, Gladwell discusses how things stay the same and suddenly they all change. One of the things that he discusses is in micronesia - where teen suicide was practically unheard of became an outright epidemic. One teenager did it, for reasons passing understanding to me as an outsider and then all the other kids realized that they too could escape their pain by hanging themselves as well and suddenly the suicide rates in micronesia became so high to where it became a public health issue. I wish I could show you all the article I wrote on TTAG about my friend's death but it has been lost in the cloud and I am unable to find the last draft I sent to print, but it echoes some of the problems we have with suicide and mental health in the firearm industry.
After the keynote, the good doctor opened the floor up for questions. Her keynote posed a lot of statistics but not a lot of answers. I am a detail oriented granular data guy and I did not get a solid grasp of the AFSP solutions posed, if any.
Several firearm dealers discussed the lack of a cohesive solution and the takeaway was they're trying to develop awareness for the suicide problem. Their goal is to lower suicide rates but how they get there is yet to be determined. I didn't like hearing that and the comments from the crowd reflected the lack of a "here's what you can do TODAY to help this problem" part of the initiative.
Going around the room, one dealer who used NICS said that if a customer was just flat out acting funny - he'd lie to the customer and say there was a delay with NICS even though there was an approval just to get them to not be able to have a gun for a few days. The crowd applauded this initiative, however I'm not sure lying to customers is the best way to run a business and treat them with respect. Another dealer brought up an interesting point. When someone comes in looking to buy a gun and they don't know what kind of gun they want, what caliber, and are generally clueless - they're either buying a gun to kill themselves with, OR perhaps they are a very uneducated prospective customer - and there is no clear way of finding out which is which.
The problems presented by the AFSP are real. The solutions aren't there though. Yet. Ideally I'd like to see some change to that. However, there's some problems.
I hung around and asked the good doctor and her staff some questions and I am in no way denigrating her life's work and her dedication to preventing suicide since she has dedicated her life's work to the issue, but the conversation went something like this.
Did you do any research on the accessibility of firearms from a retailer from the legal standpoint?
"No, we haven't"
Do you know how the NICS or state POC background systems work in regard to mental health holds, etc?
"No"
One of the problems that I foresee right off the bat is that you talked about how you are fighting time, and if you can get someone out of that suicide mindset - even for a few hours, you can get them into that higher survival bracket. If we apply a one size fits all solution to it like California and put a 10 day wait on everything with the goal of protecting someone from their own life, how do we balance that with the needs of the woman who has been hiding from her abusive spouse and needs a gun right away?
"That's a good question that I don't have an answer for."
Their initiative, I admire - the lack of solutions is a little off putting however. I tell the doc about how my friend's suicide has impacted me and she seems to be sympathetic to the situation as does her colleagues. I am given her cards and told to call the next time I'm in New York so we can get together and discuss things within the industry. I'll give them a buzz in a few weeks when I'm up there on business. On my way out of the hall, I run into Massad Ayoob. Nice guy. I've admired his work over the years. Bart invites myself and chugbleach to dinner, I can't reach Chug and even though I am beat I decide to hang out with Bart and Mrs Bart
Bart: What do you want to eat?
FC: Let's find a nice seafood restaurant and eat some red salmon, I feel a powerful lust for red salmon.
I begin vomiting.
God damn mescaline. Why the fuck can't they make it a little less pure?
We eventually head downstairs and order too much food. We are tired and not very hungry. Bart is still hungover and barely able to process food. His wife is grazing on all sorts of meat products. I am in awe of how they are both still upright after six nonstop nights of partying. I've only been here one day and I feel like I am about to die.
Dinner concludes with an awkward hug with bart's wife - I don't know how other men feel about wife hugs so I have just avoided the prospect entirely. Like flying through Denver on Frontier. Or flying on Frontier. Ever.
I drive over to the Wynn to set up my markers and the poker room is full. I draw a $2500 marker at the craps table and watch the game a bit. I have never played craps before in my life but the three people there seem to be having fun.
I look down at my phone and I realize a plane has landed. fluffy_butternut has landed in Las Vegas on business. I had lost a bet and offered to pick him up from the airport. I cash back in my chips against my casino credit and head back to my car. I cannot find my car. Fuck. I wander the wynn garage which is covered in construction debris. I eventually find it and haul ass to the airport. Now, I didn't know this but fluffy has the WORST SENSE OF DIRECTION AT ALL. Seriously. I have no idea how he even made it to the correct city. He lands and has to get his bag and stuff and I circle the airport. He lets me know he's at door 77 wherever the fuck that was. I drive into the pickup portion and I see no sign. He then says he's coming up a level, and I tell him that I'll be there shortly. I park the car and Metro PD starts yelling.
Metro: You can't park your car here.
FC: Why not? Is this not a reasonable place to park?
Metro: Reasonable? You're on a sidewalk! This is the sidewalk!
I give the man a $20 and tell him to keep it running as I wander Mccarran screaming FLUFFY! HERE FLUFFY! I message fluffy to let him know I am the car parked on the sidewalk. I instantly figure out who he is having never seen a photo of him and I throw his bags into the car as we head for his hotel. I haul ass out of the airport and get the A3 on the highway.
Now this was a superior machine. Thirty nine grand worth of gimmicks and high-priced special effects. The rear windows lit up with a touch like frogs in a dynamite pond. The dashboard was full of esoteric lights and dials and meters that I would never understand.
We check in at the Rio where the desk clerk is friendly and flirty. I express amazement there is no line. Fluffy checks in and we take his bags upstairs and he offers to buy me food for driving him to the airport. I decline. We head to the bar anyways. He orders two beers and we decide to call chug. He's staying out in Summerlin or something because his company is apparently run by cheapskates. He asks if we want to hang out and shoot the shit. I say sure and ask if he wants us to pick up food or anything from CVS or something since I have the car and I'm able to do anything I want. He asks for some toothpaste. No problem. I may be an asshole on the internet but I have a heart of gold. We get some toothpaste get to the hotel.
Arriving at the lobby, we have no idea where he is. It turns out he gave us the address for the hotel across the street. We laugh and go to that lobby and shoot the shit till 3AM much to the chagrin of the hotel clerk. Fluffy has some beers and we plan on dinner the next day. I drive fluffy back and arrive at the hotel at 4. Fuck me to tears.
Wednesday, January 18th. Day 2 of SHOT show.
Alarm goes off at 7:30 AM. I wash up, eat and get breakfast. In the garage by 8:15. Nice. I get some dillo dust and check out the new Sig 220 DA/SA and SAO legions. Daddy likey. I go to a competing firm and I piss of my state sales manager by telling him his newer designed triggers suck ass. He says the company tested them and they're the same in every way. I ask him why the triggers have two different part numbers in the catalog and how come they're not interchangeable and if that's really the case, how come there's X changes in the supposedly identical pistol parts that he's holding side by side. He gets mad at me and says I'm not an expert on their product and perhaps I should take his job since I'm so smart. I agree that I'm smart and I hold firm that if he didn't want me to complain about the shitty trigger, they should stop selling guns with shitty triggers. I am nearly kicked out of the booth.
I meet up with some of my wholesale reps and I'm mid convo when I see Itsgoodsoup and his friend walking around the show. I yell SOUP but he does not hear me. So I grab his friend and find him and I tell him we should get together at dinner with fluffy and chug. He agrees.
The show winds down, I get some business done and nothing much else. We break for a shitty gunnit live lite and I take a few questions from the crowd in fluffy's suite at the Rio. Dinner is at 8 and we arrive at the restaurant late to find soup and his friend sitting at one table and chug and his girlfriend sitting at another. Perhaps we should have gotten here a little earlier. Hahaha. So, fluffy said the place is really good and I order a few of the specialties of the house. Apparently according to yelp they do a kickass peking duck. Soon to be mrs chug is a vegan. But we can eat meat in front of her. I wonder how it's served and Soup's vancouver raised asian friend tells me that they normally carve it tableside. Our vegan says as long as there's no head she's cool. We're not sure if they can fulfill that request. So we order and food starts coming out and we tell tall tales of shot show BS and other stuff. Sure enough, the duck comes out with the head. No bueno. Haha. But I decide to treat us to vegan donuts at the vegan bakery across the street later. Seven courses later we are full. Vegan bakery closed. I am committed to getting her some vegan donuts though. We head to Fremont street to gamble. Fluffy wanders about and we try craps and we're not impressed. We hit some slots and eventually I hit the craps table where chug explains the game to me. We start betting on dice. And somehow we start winning. I find that the house allows you to take 10X behind the line. No idea what this means so I plop $5 on the pass line and the point hits 6. I drop $50 behind it and it hits. We go a few rounds and leave ahead. It's 2:30 AM. Fuck. I drive everyone back to their hotel. I get to sleep around 4.
Thursday, January 19th. Day 3 of SHOT show.
Wake up at 10AM feeling like crap. Debate whether to head straight to show and wander about. Fuck it. Went to halal guys for some halal. Delicious. Got vegan donuts. Dead drop them at the Palazzo lobby for chug and his girl. Show is a bust. Literally nothing exciting. Fluffy offers to buy me dinner. One of my customers who lives in Summerlin offers to take me to dinner. I pass on fluffy and he destroys the seafood buffet at the rio. I head to Sinatra at the Wynn for dinner with my customer. All good in the hood. Chug has been invited to the Glock dinneafter party and I'm not so we all go our separate ways. I call foghorn5950 and due to some weather, he's flying home early and our plans to hangout are fucked up unless I go tonight. I grab fluffy and we head to Whiskey Down. He orders a makers and I give him a funny look. I tell the waitress make it a bulleit. Everyone laughs. I talk shop with Jeremy also from TTAG and we shoot the shit over cigars and talk about useless products. Next thing we know, chug is out of the dinner and wandering the strip. We decide to meet up at the Linq. It takes us nearly 30 minutes to get out of Whiskey Down at MGM because the waitress was awful and messed up everyone's tab. It was a fucking disaster. To boot, MGM is now charging for parking.
FC: What a bunch of fucking jews
Fluff: You should just tailgate that lady in front of you out and screw them out of the $7
FC: I should
We pull behind her and watch as she gets flustered at the awful parking machine. Her nevada license plate says VETERAN. As the gate goes up we haul ass and screw MGM out of $7. I shout "THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE" out the window as we blow right by her up to the Linq. Through fluffy's awful navigation, we wind up at the loading dock for the Linq. Eventually we find chug and gf hanging at the penny slots. They are holding vegan donuts, which she is very appreciative of. Least I could do after showing her the head. Fluffy plays the House of Cards slot machine.
He stuck $100 in, played for 6 minutes and then got really mad and hit the cash out button and $80 was left after 5 minutes.
ITS EXACTLY LIKE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!
Chug's gf asks to play a special slot machine called kitty glitter. We ask and the linq does not offer it but Harrahs next door does. So we head over there and the slot tech finds the kitty glitter machine. Fluffy sticks a C note in there and tells her to play and have a blast. So she's banging away at the one armed bandit WHEN SUDDENLY I HEAR THE SOUND.
It's PUTTIN ON THE RITZ in shitty .wav file internal speaker format. Hahah. She's just hit the progressive jackpot on the penny KITTY GLITTER machine. THIS PLACE IS AWESOME! We cash out after some play and a good time was had by all. I dump off fluffy at the rio since it was very close and drive everyone else back. It's late, I'm tired and the Palace Station oyster bar is open 24 hours......I head over there and there's a 45 minute wait.
So, I pull out my backup bankroll and using everything chug and fluffy have taught me about craps I belly up to the $3 min table where they let you take 10x behind the line. I'm still learning and the table is slow so one of the boxmen start explaining the game to me.
Box: So if you place the 6 or the 9 or individual numbers you can bet those but you gotta pay a little juice on it like a commission
Me: Like when you buy the hook?
short pause
Box: Yeah! Exactly like that! You got this!
So I played a little and went up a bit and down a bit. As you do. Plunked $5 down on the pass line and took full odds and the point hit. This game is pretty cool! So I hung around and watched for about an hour and finally decided to eat my winnings. I take $5 off my stack and, drop it on the pass line and announce dealer bet - $5 to pass. It hits. The dealers love me.
Maybe Vegas isn't so bad after all.
http://imgur.com/a/LGhDj
I have the pan roast at the oyster bar. No line. It is DELICIOUS. I get back to the hotel at 5AM. I don't care when I wake up.
Friday, January 20th. Day 4 of SHOT show.
Wake up around noon feeling like crap. Go to show. Debate destroying milk cart with wheels with an ax borrowed from fire station. Decide against it. Gas up car and find myself out by palace station again. Played some craps, hit the buffet and went for an early sleep.
It's midnight. The neighbors in my the hotel are having sex. A LOT OF SEX. I can hear everything. I gently knock on the door. No answer. I knock slightly harder. No answer. I head back to my room and close the door just as I hear their door open. I zoom back out to find a puzzled middle aged stocky and perhaps sticky Latino man looking both ways.
I get in his line of sight.
Me: Hey. I'm next door. It sounds like you're having a lot of fun. I get it. I really do. In fact I haven't had sex since the bush administration so I'm gunning for you man I really am. But it's midnight and I have a 6am flight and a rental car to return. So trust me when I say I'm really happy for you but if you don't mind I really need to get some sleep tonight okay?
The awkward silence is deafening. He nods without saying a word and mouths okay. I give him a manly nod and thumbs up.
Me: thanks. I'd shake your hand or fist bump but well you know.....
I give him a peace sign as he goes back into his little pleasure palace and I turn to realize that I have just locked myself out of my room. I am wearing boxers, a tshirt and barefoot. I head downstairs to the lobby. The check in at the front desk resembles the TSA line at Mccarran. Normally I would not be this rude but desperate times call for desperate measures.
The line is 50 people deep. I walk past every person. Fuck your queue. I approach the desk where someone is helping a guest and I raise my right hand as if I were in a deposition to get them to stop. The staff and guest looks puzzled as the angry barefoot man clad in nothing but boxers and a "uzi does it" tshirt approaches the desk.
Me: excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt. I have an emergency. I'm up on 8 and my neighbors are having a lot of sex. I mean a LOT of sex.
(This is the same front desk clerk who actually checked me in Monday night by coincidence looks back at me very awkwardly and puzzled.)
Me: this isn't your regular sex. I'm talking this is your (I begin air humping the front desk and slapping the granite counter with my palm and grunting loudly) sex. You could hear the plan B packaging open.
At this point - the ENTIRE FRONT DESK STAFF HAS STOPPED CHECKING IN GUESTS. The people in line and are watching the show. The clerk is stunned. Speechless. Shock and awed. Crapped out and busted. The women are covering their children's eyes and ears. The men are wondering if this show requires a 2 drink minimum.
Me: now I get this is Vegas. Everyone wants a good time. It's midnight. My flight leaves at 6 which means I have to be up by 4. And this just isn't working. So I asked them to keep it down and I locked myself out of my room. So if you can make me another key or move me I'd appreciate it.
The clerk nods.
Clerk: of course. may I see your ID?
Years of ballet have prepared me for this day. I step back to make sure my genitals are still ensconced in my boxers as I pirouette and gesticulate wildly.
Me: DO I LOOK LIKE I HAVE ID?
The floor manager steps over and asks me to head down to the end of the desk where she will make me a key. I give her the room number and thank her after she offers to have security sent up to shutdown the best little whorehouse in Vegas. I tell her it may not be necessary. As I take my keys and walk away the people in line break out in raucous applause.
I take a bow and miraculously my boxer shorts don't rip. These people are my subjects and I have been crowned the the king of the three ring circus that is the circus circus lobby. Im offered a $1 tip from a kind soul but I decline.
My walk back to the hotel elevator bank is uneventful. So much so that I realize it is going too well. The other shoe, if I were wearing one felt as if it was about to drop. Suddenly a dumbass in a rascal scooter is heading toward me at flank speed as his head is turned to look at everyone BEHIND HIM. There's no way this will end well.
For you gentle readers joining us mid conversation - it's midnight and I need to be at the airport in 4.5 hours. I can just see it now. (Cue the harp noises)
Scene: Emergency room
Nurse: Allergic to anything? Me: NKDA Nurse: cause of injury? Me: what's the IC10 code for "run down by drunken buffoon on motorized wheelchair?"
I saw my life and confirmed upgraded first class seats home being given away by the Mccarran gate agent flash before my eyes and my catlike reflexes kicked in and I jumped to my left into the wall, mid 1960's Las Vegas union construction being the path of least resistance. Think "The Bodyguard" with Kevin Costner.
The buffoon barely realizes what happens. Children are amazed. "HEY MOM! Look! That guy just ran into a wall!"
Me: it was that OR GET RUN DOWN BY SOME JACKASS ON A GODDAMN SCOOTER GOING FULL SPEED DRIVING LIKE A....
I look down and a midwestern nuclear family with two children of formative age are waiting for the elevator. I change my last word.
Me: LUNATIC!
I look over to the parents.
Me: I'm really sorry. This is a family joint and I shouldn't have cursed the drunken scooter driver like that. Sorry kids.
Parent: no big deal. They've heard fucking worse.
I crack a smile at her word choice. Fucking worse. Yeah. That sounds like my evening.
After jumping into a wall, I'm now wide awake and unable to go back to sleep. I make the plane and push on time. The 737 comes to a stop short of the runway and holds. Something is wrong. The pilots come on and say that they loaded more cargo and passengers than planned so they have to redo their numbers. We're waiting on the taxiway with both engines running as they do this and the waiting music comes on. What's the first song?
Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You"
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Bought MGM Grand Reward, but only can book MGM Signature

I recently used my points to purchase 2 comp nights at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. When I went online to redeem and book it, it was for the MGM Signature, not the MGM Grand. I double checked it on the app in my wallet and the reward says MGM Grand. Called the online booking number for my vegas and was told that I would have to contact play studios by email. Its been several days with no response from them. Any ideas?
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Wrongly charged, lying driver, and lack of Uber Support from many Customer Service Agents ...

I'd appreciate anyone's opinion on the best way to get a resolution on this issue. Below is a cut and paste of my last sent support message.
UBER Support,
Unfortunately you have forgotten that it is the customers in good standing like myself that have made UBER what it is. I will still use UBER as I will not let one lying driver ruin it for the many many good ones I have. You are missing the facts and have focused on only a picture of damage that could have been taken at any time in any car, forgetting the story.
As I have stated many times before, this driver may have had damage but it was not by me. He is lying about that accusation and I will obtain assistance in fighting it if you do not do your diligence and research. I will dispute all charges of not only the $238.54 that has in the last 10 minutes moved from pending to posted on my Amex, but any other charges that come from this ride until this has been resolved.
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SHOT 2018/My tales of adventure in Las Vegas

So, you wanna go to SHOT show? You think it's all fun and games? Get to play with guns? See Jesse James and R. Lee Ermey? SHOT show is the annual pilgrimage of the unwashed masses to Las Vegas to rub elbows with youtube celebrities, bloggers and overseas businessmen copying US made equipment and share infectious disease.
If you love guns, gambling and gonorrhea - SHOT show is for you! It is not my typical idea of a good time. I am not a big fan of Las Vegas.
However: I do attend for a few reasons. First, I do enjoy travel and I'm platinum on AA so I can usually score an upgrade. Second, industry people are in there that I do hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars with business with so it's nice to put a face with the name and see what deals are out there. SHOT for me has been a bust for the past few years. Being a value guy, I want to buy at $1000 and sell at $3000 and as of recently the gun business is more like buy for $1 and sell for $1.10 if you get what I mean.
We used to do business at SHOT and now it's just checking in on foursquare, instagram and rubbing elbows with bloggers and the like. I want to make money, not spend money so this is very annoying to me.
Anyways, onto the play by play.
Monday, January 22nd. One day before SHOT show.
The TSA line is a shitshow thanks to, well TSA. I have pre check and breeze right through.
I slog my way to the lounge, as shitty as it is to wait for my winged chariot to DFW. I have gone from being in an abusive relationship with Delta to being in an abusive relationship with AA. Although if you really want to experience the battered spouse feeling, UA is a few gates over.
I board my flight to Dallas/FW and my Renton assembled chariot is having a problem with one of the ring laser gyros, the hate agent tells us we are delayed for an indeterminate amount of time. Even as an AA Plat, I have no cleared upgrades. I am number 4 on the list with one seat open to Dallas/FW. I am 39/61 for Dallas/FW to LAX.
Fuck my life.
I gate check my bags to make life easier for me and the rest of the folks slumming it. If I don't have to worry about being short on time, I like to gate check to free up bins for those who are not as fortunate. Eventually I board and ask the FA to say hi to the captain and get a ride report. Light chop all over north texas today and we're going to take the long way around the field due to wind.
Me: I guess it's true. Dallas always does seem to blow a little harder in the postseason...
CA: Hahhahaha
FO: You got that right! Go eagles!
Having brightened the day of the flight crew, I head back to my MCE seat in Y and kick back and relax by listening to my Rumours, my favorite fleetwood mac album on my ipod.
We land at Dallas an hour and a half late eating into my 4 hour spa layover I had planned. I hightail it to the Centurion lounge in terminal D, my home away from home. Thankfully I don't need a massage since I brought my friend Laura some homemade chocolate rice crispy squares and she gave me a one hour massage and gave me a happy ending.
I grab a plate and help myself to some of the excellent chicken and some mashed red potatoes and bacon It is cheesy and DELICIOUS. Between that and the poblano rice, I can feel it going straight to my thighs. No, I do not care. NOM NOM NOM
https://imgur.com/a/WBcyd
The lounge is packed. The bar is full and I grab a quick single malt as I have my meal since American's not going to feed me. They begin boarding to LAX as I walk out of the lounge. I make it to the gate and the entire plane has boarded because the screens say they are boarding group 9.
Giving the FA a friendly nod, I ask to say hi to the captain and I stride through J and say hello to the two gentlemen flying today. Aviation nerd protip: CHECK YOUR ROUTING!
I didn't, but I had a hunch since arriving from the east we'd get the ANJLL 1 or the HLYWD 1 arrival. I got a 50/50 shot. Let's see how good I am.
Drop my bags at the threshold, poke my head in.
Me: Howdy guys, we still looking good for the Hollywood 1 tonight?
CA: Man, you did your homework yes we are! GABBL transition as a matter of fact!
Damn I'm good.
FC: Nice! I know you guys take a rash of crap from drunk Parker so I like to say hello to the folks who do the heavy lifting and I'm a total airplane dork so it's cool to check the place out.
CA: I'm an airplane dork too! I'm Jeff Rowland, nice to meet ya!
SUPER nice guy. He gave me a tour of the airplane, even took a picture of me in the left seat.
https://imgur.com/a/xVIy6
Here he is showing me some stuff around the airplane. He gives me the grand tour of the 787-9 including this neat feature that actually measures how many G's they have on landing so they know whether or not they need an overweight landing inspection or not. AMAZING airplane. I'm shown all the bells and whistles and they tell me how fun the plane is to fly. Jeff takes a few pics of me in the best seat of the house. I tell the guys I'll see them at the in and out burger on Sepuldeva and I hike back to my seat in W.
The FA's were wondering where I was, and they gave away my assigned seat. I take an empty center aisle seat and make life easier for everyone. W in the 787-9 is a solid hard product. The BE Aerospace MI-Q seat is a good ride whether in it for 3 hours to LAX or 13 to CDG like I was in a few months ago. https://imgur.com/a/iPHVh
The boarding door closes for an on time departure and I watch another airplane movie - American Made with Tom Cruise. He's so dreamy. Jeff's PA's were really lame and had a whole bunch of people laughing in the back on the way to LA. The flight was not long enough. The landing is a perfect grease job on 24L and we await a tug to get towed into gate 41 at LAX. I say thanks again to the flight crew - worthy of note, http://andystravelblog.boardingarea.com/2018/01/29/pilots-lette
My next hop via a 737 to LAS is uneventful. I stop at the Centurion lounge for some freshly squeezed OJ. It is DELICIOUS as AA's app tells me my bags are being unloaded.
I grab my things and hop in the last car Hertz has in the gold section - a 2016 Toyota Corolla. Times are rough. I'm at Circus Circus again. I check in and tell the lady about the last time I was there with the neighbors and the extremely loud sex. Full story: tail end of this - https://www.reddit.com/guns/comments/5podeq/shot_2017my_tales_of_adventure_in_las_vegas/
She damn near busts a gut laughing and upgrades me to a skyrise room and gives me a line pass and complimentary buffet.
I arrive to my room where housekeeping has not cleaned it to my exacting specifications. Specifically, there are like three hairballs from a cat in the chair next to the desk. I ask for another room and they set it up for me. It's now 1AM. In and out burger is closed.
Fuck.
Tuesday, January 23rd SHOT Show Day One
You gotta get into the palazzo garage before 8AM or you are not getting a spot. I get in at 8:01 and miraculously find a spot. They are doing so much construction at the resort that I don't recognize it. I grab my pass and check in with some other industry associates. My first day is semi-eventful as I check out the sig 365, a very promising concealed carry product as well as a few other really neat things and many many useless items.
I run into u/chugbleach in the basement and we trade stories. He shows me some neat stuff he's been working on. We plan to dine later in the week and I continue walking the show when I see the most amazing booth ever.
Backstory: https://www.reddit.com/guns/comments/7ag6oj/gsg_stg_44/dp9u9hw/
I let fluff buy the hook, he posts $120 to win $100 if he gets his HMG gun by the end of Q1. If gun arrives on time, he gets $100 from me. If no, I get $120 from him.
I walk back to chug.
FC: DUDE DUDE DUDE YOU GOTTA SEE THIS COME QUICK
CB: Okay lets go
We walk briskly not 100 feet. I stop quickly. Chug looks confused.
I gesticulate wildly to our right.
This is what we see.
I crack up laughing and can barely contain myself. This is the greatest thing I have seen in weeks.
On that note it is time to take a break for lunch. I head up to one of my vendors who has a hospitality suite for the show and they are serving jambalaya for lunch every day. As a Louisiana boy, we do love jambalaya. There's a reason I spend lots of money with them. I eat and have a coke as I trade gun jokes with other gun dealers. I wander around the show and nothing else jumps at me.
I walk the footbridge over to the Wynn to see how the house is doing. The poker room is full. I draw $2500 from my credit line and head down to the craps table to throw some dice. I have some mixed success as it's getting late and I want to hit the in and out burger so as I'm getting ready to leave, Laura sends me a bunch of filthy text messages about what she wants to do to me when I get back. My chips and raging boner leave the tables quickly as I duck into the bathroom to tell her that if she wants to treat me like a prisoner on a conjugal visit - I went to 8 years of catholic school, she's entering a world of pain. She says game on.
After a quick trip to the cage to cash out, I'm up or down something like $100. I swing by in and out burger for a double double. It is delicious. Sleepy time.
Wednesday, January 24th. Day 2 of SHOT show.
Alarm goes off at 7:45 AM. I wash up, eat and get breakfast. In the garage by 8:15. Still manage to find a spot! Attendance is down this year. I get in line at Larue. They run out of dillo dust at 8:39. This is the line at 8:35 https://imgur.com/a/KLHrg
The show opens at 8:30. Fuck my life. I grab a dillo and some stickers for some friends and a few HK calendars. I wander around and talk to the guys over at Franklin Armory and their new SBR that isn't an SBR, SBS that isn't an SBS and rifle that isn't really a rifle BUT IS STILL A FIREARM. The projectiles they want to sell have fin stabilization and it's like a 55 grain flying Lombardi trophy. It's an interesting idea but I'm not 100% certain I would buy one personally. I trade war stories with a few other friends I meet up with at the show. I head down to the basement and I'm looking at a few accessories from Tactical Walls.
Just as I'm ready to leave - Joe Mantegna shows up and says hi to the reps.
FC: Mr Mantegna! I love your work! Can I get a picture?
JM: Sure.
Someone grabs my phone and snaps a pic
FC: You are great in the simpsons as Fat Tony. Just the best!
JM: (in fat tony voice) I don't get mad. I get stabby.
FC: That's awesome! Thanks! Enjoy the show!
I send the pics to some friends who enjoy snappy Mamet plays and they are all jealous. I head down to the basement. The ATF booth is vacant due to the government shutdown. So is the FBI booth. Oh well. I head upstairs to the manufacturer supplier section and I find out that Olympic Arms is still in business making things. I do a lap and get some business cards from some precision machine companies that can make some elaborate parts. Jambalaya again for lunch. Nom nom nom.
I head down to FN to talk shop with the guys down there and give them shit. FN's new innovation is a two tone FDE/Black gun. So now 50% of the gun does not have to match. I trade barbs with Mike Hoffman and we debate the age old question, is it really gay if you can suck your own cock? Just as I mention this, Steve Bannon shows up at the booth. That's my stop. I say hello to the director of commercial sales on my way out and go to the Knights booth where I find they're making 6.5 Creed stuff now. Interesting how quickly that cartridge has caught on. I talk shop with a few of the KAC guys and then I steal some more HK Kalendars for friends back home.
I hit the Circus Circus buffet with my free pass for the unpleasantness and it is not that great at all. They ran out of roast beef. I mean, really? SHOT SHOW IS IN TOWN! We are beef eating gun owners, and you're gonna run out of roast beef? This would never happen at the Wynn, an amazing property. I make a mental note to sell my MGM Mirage stock and buy some Wynn in the morning. I head back to the craps table and lose a shitload of money. I witness a heater happen after I color up and watch people go nuts. My luck at MGM properties has not been good. Ugh. I don't feel like doing gunnit live and head to sleep early.
Thursday, January 25th. Day 3 of SHOT show.
I message Chug and let him know that it's gotta be tonight if we're gonna hang since I fly out Friday night for Boston. We plan to make plans for dinner. I head to the show and get there at 3 minutes to 8. One of my best customers calls me wanting an XM2010. I head over to Remington and through some finagling they manage to say YES WE CAN SELL IT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SELL IT. I work up a quote and get the customer the info and tell him what's what. I visit the nighthawk custom booth where they have a new gun chambered in .45 APC.
https://imgur.com/a/9bNe7
I kid with a few FBI guys about their attention to detail. I saunter about the show. Leatherman Tool Group always has some nice things to play with. Tim Leatherman is engraving tools for people with his autograph. I'm happy with all of his products I own and I stop by to shake his hand and tell him that my wave has saved my ass on a hundred different occasions and I once resurrected a Ford off the side of the road. He says he loves hearing the stories and he's a pretty nice guy.
I wander about a little more and I find myself over at the Emerson Knife Company booth looking around.
For those not in the know, Emerson has a bunch of specwar types as customers. Damn good knives and operator customers. One of them is behind the table wearing a badge that says JOHN SMITH - JOHN SMITH INC. He's got arms that are as thick as my legs and he looks like a Navy Seal. He bolts upright from his seat and looks at my wrist.
"Is that a 1675?"
FC: Sure is! Damn good eye! My dad won it in an underground poker game in Hong Kong in 1968 from a couple of navy guys on shore leave that flew F4's off Dixie Station.
"Holy crap, that's fucking awesome!"
We talk watches and guns and killing people for a while. He says he's in the navy and the budweiser insignia necklace he is wearing tells me everything I need to know. Nice guy. I wonder what his real name is as the show closes down and as I walk out the magpul booth gives me a laugh. A paper sign on the door says "DOOR IS LOUD AF CLOSE GENTLY"
I'm not kidding - https://imgur.com/a/GgSkU
I head over to Chug's hotel and he gives me the grand tour. It's way nicer than my hotel. We go out and have dinner. I'm asked if I like Thai.
FC: Tie good, you like shirt?
Nobody gets my simpsons jokes. We go to dinner where a good time is had by all. Chug gets a call and needs to drop off a SHOT show pass to a co-worker of his flying in. As opposed to all the mechanics of a dead drop at the palazzo etc I tell him fuck it, just give it to me and I'll pick him up from the airport. In exchange, I tell him I want all the leftover chicken wings from the Thai place.
It's a deal. I grab the wings and head to McCarran. There's a guy in a BRZ hauling ass and I decide to see what this shitbox can do. I get the Corolla up to 115 MPH on the highway before backing down to a more sensible speed. After 5 minutes of MARCO / POLO I find the fellow and give him his shot show pass and a ride to his hotel. I find it funny that last year I ran an unapproved uber substitute and here we are again and the same thing is happening. I'm offered gas money or a beer after the show and I tell him hey, it's your first time at SHOT - enjoy the show, don't sweat it.
I hightail it up the strip to the Palazzo where I play a bit and eventually see a heater in progress. I split the 6/8 for $120 each and they hit. I press it and they hit again. Maybe this won't be a bad trip after all. Table craps out and I cash out still down a few bucks but better than when I started.
By the time I make it back to the room, it's 4AM. I eat the chicken wings. They're delicious.
Friday, January 26th. Day 4 of SHOT show.
I've gotten most of what I want to get done, done. I ordered some Firearm Instructor body armor from one of my guys since lots of people want me dead first thing in the AM and things were going good. I sleep in and debate what I want for breakfast when I realize things are going a little too good. Nothing really bad has happened this trip yet. I pack up and get ready to leave the hotel when I get a push notification.
MOTHERFUCKER
My flight to Boston has been canceled.
My confirmed first class seats on one of the hardest to upgrade legs in the entire AA route network - LAX to BOS, gone. AA proactively books me on the flight leaving LA a few hours later IN COACH. A middle seat, even. No, just no. I call American and they tell me the plane is broken. Damnit. I look on the app for acceptable reroutings and there is nothing available in first. I say fuck it, I'll deal with this shit later. I have the rental car until midnight, lots of time to make a new plan. I check out of the hotel, throw my bags in the car and head down to the show and it's a freaking ghost town. Parking spaces everywhere. I say bye to a few folks as my phone sends me a notification. WSJ: STEVE WYNN ACCUSED OF DECADES OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
Oh FUCK MY LIFE. I bought the stock back on Wednesday. GODDAMNIT STEVE WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT
I skip lunch and walk across the street to the Wynn and their corporate office.
You see, I have a simple theory. If the allegations are false, they should have no problem sending someone out to listen to my concerns and say the allegations are false and here's everything we're doing to fight it. If the allegations are true, they'll send down hired goons to throw me out the door.
It's sorta like spousal infidelity. If A finds evidence of B cheating, credit card statements, sexts, racy pictures, etc - and A confronts B and B admits it and says I want a divorce, B is guilty. If B says A is cheating on them what the fuck are you doing looking at my credit card statements and phone you're the one that's wrong and invading my privacy get the fuck out of my house - B is really guilty.
That's the theory. If they go full retard and bounce me off the property, the stock is probably going to go down some more. If they address the concerns, things should not be as bad.
Since I walked through the property the last time I was in town, I knew where the corporate office was. The name on my broker statement says WYNN RESPORTS and so did the sign on the doors. I walk through the doors and to the end of the hallway where there's another electronically locked door that is unlocked.
There's a security guard who is nonplussed sitting at a desk wondering if I'm lost. I explain to him that I'm a shareholder and I want to know what this company is doing about this catastrophe. He says he can't say/do anything and I'm instructed to leave. I ask him if he can take a message. He says yes, and I'm like you just said you can't do anything. So what's that supposed to mean?
I argue with him about what he supposedly can and cannot do as I eat raspberry macrons that have been plated at the reception area of the corporate office. THESE BETTER BE THE BEST FUCKING MACARONS I HAVE EVER EATEN GODDAMNIT. They are. Fuck.
He tells me that my best bet is to talk to someone else at the resort, not him. Fine.
I leave and head to the concierge desk - because from one concierge to another, we can solve problems. I explain the situation and instead of routing me to the press office or investor relations - they give me a phone and tell me to speak to guest services. AKA the people that help you with your stay as a guest of the hotel. I give the lady taking the message about 15 minutes worth of comments and she's assured me that they'll be passed along to management.
Given the circumstances I think that's the best I'm going to do today. Now, there's the issue of me being stuck in vegas for another night. I look down at my phone and AA has offered three itineraries flying out of McCarran tomorrow IN FIRST CLASS that gets me to Boston in a timely fashion. I jump on the 625AM flight to Charlotte. This means I need to be at the car rental by 525AM and out the door around 0430. Fuck my life. And I have nowhere to sleep/showeshit/shave.
As I'm walking back to the esplanade to cross back over to the Palazzo where my car is, I notice the registration desk. I get in line and a lovely lady asks what she can do for me.
I tell her that I'm a shareholder and I'm pretty mad about the way the company is handling their sex offender in chief. And given the $18 haircut I took on the stock today, if there's an angry shareholder discount on a room tonight I think that would be more than fair given the circumstances. She agrees and gets me a bottle of water and the manager. The manager asks me if I've stayed at the hotel before, the answer is yes and asks to see my ID so she can see if she can plug me in at a repeat guest rate.
A few minutes go by and I wait patiently at the desk when I'm tapped on the shoulder.
There's two former NFL linebackers, one with his back towards me and the other introducing himself as the director of security.
Hmmm. Lets see. For those not in the know, there's only one exit in and out of the wynn registration desk.
If there's two bodies on me, there's gotta be at least two more at each side of the wall behind it that I can't see, I figure 4 sets of eyes running the eye in the sky all with their eyes glued to the monitors, the director of security is holding my ID which means he's already got my play, my comps, my markers, run me through central credit, my red card, he's got metro running me for wants/warrants and there's probably an unmarked metro ford next to a service exit with an open door and a seat reserved for me in the back.
I look down at my watch. The market is closed. I can't sell. Fuck. Because there is no way in hell this stock is holding $180 monday morning.
Quickly, I bang out a message to my brother letting him know I am about to be arrested at the Wynn and to start googling Las Vegas bail bonds.
The two security guys tell me to step away from the front desk and they want to know what the hell I'm doing. I tell them I want answers from the management of this company about how they're handling this disaster. They say I can't just walk into a casino corporate office and ask to speak to someone.
Well, I just did. Why can't I?
They said it represents a major security risk and a breach of their perimeter. After all, Mr. Wynn takes his security at the hotel very seriously.
Me: I suppose if I were a sex offender with hired goons, I'd take my security seriously too. And if you really didn't want people going back there - last time I checked, this is a casino. The doors have locks. Perhaps you should have oh I don't know, locked them?
Wynn Security: What makes you think you can just walk in here and talk to us like that?
Me: I'm a stockholder. Technically you work for me.
Wynn Security: You honestly expect that a big company like us is going to send someone out of the corporate office to talk to a guy like you about a thing like this? That never happens in corporate america.
Me: That's strange. Michael Moore did exactly that and that's what made him famous. What's your point?
We bantered in the registration area of the Wynn for something like an hour and 45 minutes as the director of security wandered back and forth. They never backed down with the questions and I never backed down from the answers. A lot of casino security is former law enforcement so they're looking for that time you change your story like on an episode of cops. For instance, if it was cops it would go like
Cop: who's drugs are these?
1: Never seen em before
fast forward 2 min
1: I mean my friend smokes pot, maybe it's his
Cop: I thought you said you never seen em before?
fast forward 2 min
1: So I smoke a little pot okay
Cop: I thought you said it might be your friends pot?
fast forward 2 min
1: yeah it's my pot
They were looking for a reason to throw me out and as far as I can tell, they probably still are. I'm sorta expecting a registered letter in the mail barring me from the property in a week. If I start yelling, it's disorderly conduct and they have a case. If start pushing someone around, same thing. But if I speak candidly and gesticulate wildly and raise cogent points about how every single hotel employee I've dealt with thus far owns a combined total of zero shares in the company - they have no skin in the game and I do. So, they can't really criticize my opinion as wrong because I'm the stockholder not them. At least, that's my opinion. I could be wrong.
Well, the goons disagreed with me and said I was wrong. They also said that this could have been accomplished with a phone call. I said no, because you wouldn't take a phone call seriously. And now you're taking this seriously. So, match point: FC.
They didn't like that. It would not surprise me in the least if Steve Wynn was in the security booth with a radio telling his guys to find some reason to arrest me and have me sent to Clark County booking. This guy just feels guilty as sin. I can't prove it but my gut has usually been right about this sort of thing.
As I'm waiting for my inevitable arrest and booking, I wonder if American Airlines will allow me another flight change due to temporary incarceration. Because there's no way I'll be able to leave the state with an ROR or a signature bond out. I look over at Mean Joe Greene Jr and tell him I was too angry to eat lunch and I'd like to have a seat before my blood sugar crashes and my head hits the floor and Steve sends me a bill for the shattered italian marble.
He gestures towards a chair in the reception area and I have a sit. He offers to bring me another water. I decline. He brings me a water anyways. I consume both the waters as compliments of the house as a sign of untoward cooperation.
Out of the corner of my eye I see the director of security talking to two metro PD guys with handcuffs out. I hear over the radio they're asking for a rover to take me down to the security office for fingerprinting and photographs. He is gesticulating wildly.
The director of security comes back over and he tries to get me to crack on my story. I tell him I'm here as a shareholder as a private citizen demanding accountability of the management. I will not apologize for walking through an unlocked door to the corporate office asking to speak to someone to hear out my concerns, I will not apologize for going to the concierge since the previous person was very unhelpful and I will not apologize for expecting the highest standards of a fortune 1000 company chairman and CEO. And until you pony up and buy some stock, I'm not about to take a lecture about what is and isn't acceptable behavior from people who don't have skin in the game protecting what should be by all accounts a registered sex offender.
He looks back at Metro PD.
They shrug.
They've got nothing chargeable on me.
Hell, I'm not even counting cards this time.
Next thing I know he quickly walks away and returns with a late 20's hispanic fellow who introduces himself as the hotel manager. He says that he's gotten a report from security and that Mr. Wynn's private life he cannot comment on but the concerns I have will be sent up towards management.
FC: So you're the hotel manager? So you report to Matt Maddox. You tell him that this is a mess. Nobody comes back from this sort of thing. Not Harvey Weinstein. Not Louis CK. Not Matt Lauer. Not Bill O'Reilly. Not Bill Cosby. Not Kevin Spacey. Not Charlie Rose. Not Al Franken. And the LAST time this happened at Mirage, a shareholder revolt wound up sending the company into the hands of MGM. What's to stop Sheldon from across the street from doing the same thing? You tell them that.
The manager nods and offers me a room at a rate, inclusive of resort fee and taxes of $335/night. I take out my phone, look at the Hotel Tonight app and realize that I'm being charged more money than if I were to book the room from a consolidator.
Now, I don't mind the lie about understanding where I'm coming from. I do mind the insult to my intelligence. I am handed back my ID and the hotel manager offers his business card. I take his business card and go over to the cage. I close my credit line and take my deposit out of the cage. I'm down for the trip. Fuck this shit, I'll deal with it later. I call my brother and tell him that I've been released. We look at some flights and to get back to Boston will require another night in Las Vegas. Everything leaving tonight is full due to the conventions closing up.
AA has some seats open in first via Charlotte and Philly, I take the Charlotte flight leaving at 6:30 AM from McCarran and they confirm me seats in first all the way to Logan. This is the only thing to go right today. I purchase some clean clothes since I will not have time to do laundry in Boston anymore due to the delay and head over to the palace station oyster bar. The wait is about 2 hours but I make some friends in line while I'm there. I am torn between the alaskan chowder and the bouillabaisse. I ask Steve behind the bar what he thinks is best. He says do the bouillabaisse. I tell him that sounds excellent, and to add extra lobster. I ask him how long, he says could be 30 minutes but check back in 20. I tell him I'm gonna go hit the tables and I'll be back in 20. The timer on my phone begins counting down.
I belly up to the nearest craps table and I drop my cash down. I tell them I want it in black and red and the croupier complies. I bet the 6/8 split with mixed success and the pass line with odds. The shooter misses the point. I look down at my dwindling stack of chips and there's 15 minutes left.
Fuck it. Go big or go home. Lets get this shit over with. The point comes off. I drop $100 on the pass line. New shooter gets the dice and the come out roll hits a 10.
I look at the gal with the whip. I throw her a stack of chips.
FC: Full odds on the ten, $200 hard way, give me all the numbers and a nickel c and e.
New shooter proceeds to hit every number on the board, midnight, yo and a speed limit. Pass line pays even money. Pass odds pays 2-1. I'm looking down at a big stack of chips. What the fuck just happened?
I drop $100 on the pass line again, the point comes out for an 8. I take full odds and all the numbers. New shooter hits every number on the board, midnight, yo, except the 8. The guy next to me has the all or nothing at all working so the only thing left to hit is the 8 and it's gonna pay 175:1. The 8 does not hit. Everyone is chasing the 8'er from Decatur.
I look down at my stack and the table limit and the boxman.
FC: hey Joe, what's the juice on laying the 8?
Joe: 5 points!
I take down my pass line odds.
FC: I want everything off and I'll lay the 8 for a dime.
Everyone at the table looks at me like I'm a lunatic. I slide over two purple chips and two green for the vig.
Time remaining until bouillabaisse: 8 minutes.
Lets see what happens. The dice bang around a bunch of more times. I'm ahead for this trip. Way ahead. Next thing I know, the gal with the whip calls no roll. One of the dies have left the table.
Time remaining until bouillabaisse: 4 minutes.
This is my stop.
FC: Take down my lay, and I'll color up.
The boxman colors me up, I leave a nice tip for the crew and start to walk over to the cage to cash in. I hear screaming and profanity, I turn around and I see the dealers stacking chips. The shooter has 7'd out.
Time remaining until bouillabaisse: 2 minutes.
There's a long line at the cage. I walk back to the oyster bar and I see a big bowl with a plate covering it. Steve behind the bar has thought of everything.
I turn the plate over and look down at my stack of chips. Maybe today won't be so bad after all.
https://imgur.com/a/bjK7R
The bouillabaisse is delicious. The win is even more delicious. I nom my way to the bottom of the bowl and settle up the bill. I leave Steve a nice tip as I head over to the Palazzo to say hi to some friends. I find myself at a craps table you can hang meat upon. This is not good. It's getting late and I head over to my room at the Mandalay Bay.
Now, here's the fucked up part. This girl I've been hooking up with didn't hook up with me before I left for SHOT. She's been messing with my brain for a whole week. I check in to the Mandalay Bay where there's a goddamn pornstar convention going on.
FML.
I find myself down at a craps table at 11PM and bringing a frontier flight attendant named Amber back to my room. The lucky streak continues. My flight leaves in a few hours. I kick her out of my room and pass out.
Flight leaves at 625 for CLT. Need to be at McCarran at 525. Out the door of the hotel by 5AM at the latest. I set my alarm.
*Saturday, January 27th. *
I wake up to see the sun shining through my hotel room. I look down at the alarm clock. 8:01AM.
My long standing joke is that I sleep like a dead prostitute. The evening of ravenous illegal in 48 states sex has taken its toll. Fuck. I grab the phone and press the button for guest services. I turn on the speaker as I open my bag wide and just stuff everything in as fast as I can. I throw my boots on as I tell them to check me out over the phone. I haul ass downstairs to the garage and I get to McCarran and board the shuttle to Terminal 1. I walk up to the AA desk knowing I am 11 different kinds of fucked. Nancy the gate agent starts working on my departure. AA's rule is 2 hours from departure on a flat tire. That's 8:25 AM. It's a few minutes before 9. Nancy the great agent cannot get anything to work. She has to put me in the special services line. By the time I get there, they tell me I'm flying standby and I'm on the flight to Philly leaving at 1PM in the afternoon. There is no way in hell they can get me on the 10AM to Phoenix.
My cousin is getting married in Boston and she is going to fucking kill me. I told her I'd be there around 6PM on the rebooking. And now I'm going to be leaving for Philly in 4 hours. Granted, the Amex Centurion Lounge has freshly squeezed OJ but that's not going to be enough today. I run to TSA and get cleared. I run past the Centurion to head straight for the Phoenix gate. Hopefully other folks have had an irish layover. The gate agent there starts working me and she says that they have two open seats and that they're gonna get me on. Just sit tight. I step to the side to let her help a few other folks gate check bags. The clock is ticking and her colleague closes the boarding door as I'm standing next to the gate looking fucked. I take a deep breath and try to keep it together.
A tap on the shoulder.
"Sir, your boarding pass. Exit row window. I've taken the liberty and called back to make sure there's space in the overhead for my bags so you don't have to gate check. You are good to go."
I look up at the three ladies working the podium.
FC: Can I hug any of you?
Gate Agent 1: No
Gate Agent 2: I'm sick
Gate Agent 3: Sure, why not?
I head behind the counter and give her a hug. She seems pleased.
I hightail it to the door. Gate agent 2 opens it up for me. I run down the jetway like a charging rhino, Chris Christie like. The flight attendants greet me by name and they realize that my nose is bleeding from the 8 ball I shared with Amber a few hours back. The FA points at my nose and asks me if I'd like to step into the lav. I realize it's probably pretty bad. I leave my bags in the galley and duck in and I stuff a bunch of paper in my nose as an ersatz tampon. I walk back out, grab my bags and I declare to the entire plane it's the dry air not a cocaine problem.
Nobody believes me.
I take my seat and there's an empty seat between me and an in uniform FA on the way home. We chat a bit and Cathy thinks my story is hilarious. She even gets on AA's PALL list for the flight to Boston and checks and says I'm number one on standby R4. A nice lady, I offer her one of my extra LaRue Dillo's. She thinks they're cute.
The working FA walks back and looks down at the traveling FA and says very discreetly there's a 40 minute ground hold due to PHX losing a runway. This is gonna be really really tight. My connecting flight to Boston is not looking good. We wait the 40 minutes for the hold and make it to PHX about 15 minutes behind schedule. I bolt to the Boston gate. I ask if they've cleared all the standby passengers. They say yes. I say I should be number one and they hand me a ticket in coach.
FC: Any way I can talk you into a seat in the front of the plane?
The hate agent just looks at me funny. He does not seem to think that's happening. He asks me if I have status on the airline. Sure do. He says no promises.
I tell him no sweat, I'm gonna go take a leak and come back around in 5.
I walk back up and he hands me my new boarding pass.
https://imgur.com/a/IJuPe
I call my cousin and tell her that I'm gonna be a few hours late. Great ride all the way into Boston. I sleep like a dead prostitute.
https://imgur.com/a/RKMSu
Just as we cruise past the city of big shoulders, the FA wakes me up.
"Mr Hayden, would you like some ice cream?"
I look at my neighbor who is a middle age female executive and she is plowing through hers like Sherman through Atlanta.
FC: You know what, Chuck? I've always wanted to say this. I'll have what she's having.
https://imgur.com/a/our5R
Ice cream on the ground, delicious.
Ice cream on a plane, FUCKING FANTASTIC.
FC out.
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