The MIssing Vegas Entry...a bit late! LOL!
Vegas Diaries
Sunday August 27, 2006
We just arrived in Vegas and so far things are cool, and I mean that very figuratively. We can’t check into our hotel until noon, which is a drag, but we came over to the convention center early to set the booth up. We dropped our luggage off at the hotel and one of the guys had the brilliant idea to walk over to the convention center. We made it as far as the parking lot before we hopped our black asses in a cab and acted like we had some sense. So we arrived at the Las Vegas Convention Center and as soon as we stepped inside, there was an immediate sense of electricity. I’m excited! Its crazy walking in here because some of the booths are crazy!!! There are lights and cameras and some booths are set up to look like mini studios or apartments, equipped with two floors, featuring plush couches, lounges and bar areas where their clients can view their new products in style. The Phat Farm booth has lofts and couches and all kinds of tomfoolery, of course I could only get a slight glance at what was going on because it is an huge enclosed booth with armed security and guard dogs blocking the entrance (slight exaggeration), but what I could see through the windows was tight! Its madness! The cold part about it is that regular ol’ people like me can’t even go inside. You have to have an appointment and a special badge to even walk past the dag nab things! It’s crazy!!! But the cool part is that I am super proud of Lee and Ragamuffin clothing for being right here, directly in the middle of all this, literally, running with the big boys. That is tight! The area is so big, I don’t even think I can make it all the way around it. I’d get lost! But I am really excited to be here! I will even more excited to check into the hotel, throw on a skirt and wife beater and see what Vegas has to offer. Oh and of course, as with any experience in my life, Tom to the J is in the building. I was sitting here at the booth, admiring my creative handiwork, when this random white dude tells me to smile. Me being the well raised, uber-polite person I am smile and say hello. This turns into a twenty minute monologue on his part about how he doesn’t work for money, he works for fun, then it turns into him being from New York and being able to handle himself in any neighborhood because he just looks like he can fight, so he’s cool. And then he proceeds to say “Its just about knowing how to handle yourself and be smart. You can’t walk into Harlem and, excuse my language, call someone a Nigger and not expect a reaction...” Whoa...And now Ladies and gentleman, My response, ahem: “Sir, it is not okay to use that term in front of a Black person for the purpose of proving a worthless point, especially, since it is clear that you get some sort of cheap thrill every time you use it and manage not to get a royal beat down, so today, because I’m in a good mood, I’ll let this one slide, but you need to leave this booth now before I get upset.” He promptly did an about-face and kept it moving. NEVER!!!!! People are getting real comfortable now days...if I’d said it once, I’ve said it a million times, “LEARN YOUR LIMITATIONS!!!” Anyway, the heat of this convention center (the air is will be on tomorrow...Praise God!!) combined with the heat of this computer is making it a bit unbearable, but I’ll be back if anything exciting happens!
1. CHecking into the hotel...I almost went to jail
a. the woman who worked there coming at me crazy because of a mix up with the reservations and telling me that perhaps I should learn to handle my business better and make my own reservations....* yes she did
b. Having to pay an 'energy bill' for the hotel...*yes a Hotel PG&E bill...never in my life...
c. going to my room and it has not been cleaned from the previous guests and having to wait 4 hours for it get cleaned and THEN having to MAKE the housekeeper change the sheets and towels because she did not believe that I was a new guest... right....
LET THE TOMFOOLERY BEGIN!!!!
B
