By JJ Carlson
Photo a Las Vegas taxi motive force motoring down the Strip at 3:30 AM. taking a drained younger couple again to their lodge. One passenger says to the cabbie, " I guess you've a few stories."
That motive force was once me and that was once ten years in the past. After numerous instances being advised that I should still write a ebook, i ultimately did and this can be it.
Here are a few of my favourite tales and conversations from my Las Vegas taxi.
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I was now quite comfortable with civil talk. ” Only he used the F- bomb. " I asked. He answered, “I am Arab-American. " I F- bombed him right back. " This was New Year's Day only three months after 9/11. D. " "Didn't your friends tell you to put your wallet in the front pocket? " They had told him and he had done it. " “What? ” I wasn't prepared for the answer. " Okay, there were 300,000 people in the street, crammed like sardines. I've had heard that in some places they are squished so tight you get intimate with strangers and you've got no choice.
Ninety percent of rides come from the four miles of Las Vegas Boulevard called the Strip. The rest occur at the airport or downtown near Fremont Street which is where Las Vegas started. But far more interesting than this town are the people who come here. I am continually amused that they have such similar interests, from no matter where they come. Most people come here to have fun. When they have more fun than they were expecting, which often happens, they really want to talk about it. And who better to share it with than their cab driver?
Everywhere, apparently, except my cab. I blame it on the iPod. ++++ One memorable day, I brought a passenger to the posh Wynn Hotel VIP entrance and the staff was out on the driveway waving like crazy for me to follow them up to the ultra posh VIP Towers. “Okay. Okay. Keep your shirts on,” I thought. Then I motored over to that door and I saw there were no limos. The Wynn has something like twelve Rolls Royce’s, Bentleys and Maybachs. But now they wanted me and my Crown Victoria Ford, the one the police drive as well, and they wanted me in a big hurry.