Huh? Vegas?

Someone explain the appeal of Vegas to me, because I just don’t get it. What is so exciting about throwing money away with nothing to show for it?

When I am flying, if there is any way to avoid the Vegas airport, I will do that. The airport is, in a word, annoying. On a recent trip to Austin though, I had to change plans there both ways. The vacant expressions on those at the slot machines was absolutely pitiful.

And over the slot machines there were meaningless increasing numbers that were supposedly representing the money won on those machines. Those numbers increased at the same “random” rate no matter how many people were losing money at them, but they certainly made it look like you had a chance at winning. That number also resets at some point each week, but never back to zero. It resets just low enough so that it is a number larger than most people can comprehend.

As far as I’m concerned, Vegas could completely disappear from the face of the earth and it wouldn’t change my life at all (as long as my cousin who lives there moved first).

If I’m going to go somewhere and come back with less money, I want to see something amazing, experience culture, learn something new, come back with something! Vegas, it doesn’t have much of that.

Now, there is the odd person who might win big and make it worth it. I myself have several plans for what I’m going to do with my lottery winnings, laser my eyes being at the top of the list together with paying for my degree. But I don’t play the lottery because I’ll have more money in the end if I don’t play the lottery than if I did.

Vegas, what Vegas has, is stupid people. And going to a place with a bunch of stupid people does not seem like a good idea for a vacation to me.