By the time that you are reading this post, I will have hopefully had a safe flight to Las Vegas and will be attending the first sessions of the EMC World conference.
This trip to Las Vegas marks the fourth time that I have visited since my wife and I made our first trip together a few years back. Each of those four times has been for a work conference and my wife has not accompanied me on the trip.
Anyone that has been to Las Vegas knows that there are plenty of opportunities to be deviant.
Not only do the flashing lights of the casinos beckon, but there are strip clubs that entice many men - as well as the places like the Bunny Ranch.
When I made my first trip to Las Vegas without my wife, she had visions that I would be spending every night at the strip clubs getting myself into trouble.
While I assured my wife that my time would not be spent looking at naked women as that is not the kind of husband that I am, she still had her doubts. At least she had doubts until I shared the following reason with her, which she knows all too well.
I’m cheap!
Seriously, being a cheap person in Las Vegas means that there is not much opportunity for trouble. As anything that can get you into trouble is going to cost a fair amount of money.
Sure, I’ll place a few small bets at the sports book and might throw a few dollars into the slot machines or the video poker while having a drink at the bar. But anything more than that, forget it.
Why am I so cheap when it comes to things like this?
Plain and simple, I work hard for my money and don’t like throwing it away.
While sitting down in the casinos can be fun and exciting, you are essentially throwing away your money. Every now and then you might hear of someone winning big or have a good run yourself, but how many of those people walk away with that money?
Not many.
Just recently, Charles Barkley was in the news as he has a $400,000 gambling debt that he has not paid off. A few years back Barkley had estimated he has gambled away about $10 million!
That is throwing money away.
My wife and I have seen an episode or two of the series on HBO entitled Cathouse, which gives an inside look at the happenings at the Bunny Ranch. For those that are not aware, the Bunny Ranch is a brothel outside of Reno.
While watching this show, I learned that the, ahem, services being performed can cost a man (or woman) hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.
WHAT?!?!
That is insane!
That is throwing money away.
While my wife might complain from time to time that I am a little too cheap, she also knows that I am way too cheap to be deviant in a place like Las Vegas.
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As my wife and I like to say, gambling is a sure way of telling the universe that you have too much money.
Ha, my husband is the same way. He went to strip clubs a couple times with buddies before we dated. After we started dating/got married, he always wonders WHY committed/married people do that. You can get all that stuff for free (and without the STDs crawling everywhere) at home!
And having never been to one myself, he informed me of the cost of stuff and I almost choked. That’s just ridiculous.
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I’ve just had my first strip club experience at Little Darlings in Las Vegas. I would say it’s an interesting experience to be in one at last. My friend really wanted me to have that experience so he even paid for it. It was certainly something new to me, but after five hours there, all the girls and dances start to look the same to me. Personally, it’s something that I would tag along to every once a while if my friends want to go, but I wouldn’t want to go all the time, and don’t really love it that much to pay such a high price… much like Disneyland. It’s fun to go with your friends to Disneyland every now and then, but man, those tickets are expensive. Not that I can’t afford it. I just would rather spend it on something else.