I kinda see Vegas like being at the zoo. You can observe the wildlife, but you want to be careful, not to get too close. For instance, I saw this man in a motorized chair. He was driving down the middle of traffic begging for money. I am not sure if you make a good case for soliciting money if you can afford to drive a motorized chair, and you obviously have access to electricity to power it. I wanted to give him tips on how to increase his begging potential. A good limp goes a long way, so you may want to semi push the chair. This will also give the illusion that you can not afford to charge the device. As much as I wanted to be helpful, I doubt my family would be pleased with my attempt to hone my leadership ability by mentoring him. I instead, stayed in the safety of my car and took a million pictures of him as he cruised by. Just like the zoo.The zoo analogy was mind blowing. Everywhere I looked there were these people. There is a certain comfort level that comes with this epiphany. I felt very much in my element. Able to observe, make commentary, without the fear of being grouped in with them.
This comfort zone quickly went away when we had breakfast one morning. Because I am a big fat guy, I love me the buffet. To us fatties, the buffet is like a religious experience. The real fat ones pray multiple times a day, in the direction of Vegas. I am sitting there, enjoying my eating experience, when I realize that the people that are waiting in line to enter the place, are staring at me. I whip my camera out and start taking their pictures. I figure I can post these people on my blog and talk about how rude it is to ogle at others when they are eating. I'm staring at my picture, when I realize that they were observing me! I am one of the animals in the zoo, and they are looking at me like I am a wildebeest that is feeding.I guess this is justice. I treated all these people like animals in the zoo. All the while, I was one of them. There is a lesson to be learned here. I just don't care what it is.
Two things:
ReplyDelete1. It is possible to be homeless and still be able to charge your devices. I worked with a guy that was homeless for a little while. He would sleep in the exterior storage closet of a Jiffy-Lube which had an electrical outlet in it so he could charge his laptop and cell phone every night.
But I do agree that if you're in the begging game, it does look better if you at least appear to be struggling to get around a bit. Perhaps he could put his motorized chair to use as a rickshaw and taxi folks up and down the strip.
2. In the second picture I noticed you're not taking advantage of the upside-down ketchup bottle design. Ketchup bottle engineers worked tirelessly to come up with this design...