— "Drove through a DUI checkpoint……at 10am……on a Tuesday"
— "Saw a guy wearing his baby on his chest (think Alan in the Hangover) asking a pit boss if he could sit and play poker because 'the child isn't playing'"
— "Years ago my brother and I were riding the tram back to our hotel and there were 3 other people on there sitting quietly looking exhausted and depressed. One of them suddenly sat up excitedly and said to his friends 'I just realized it's past midnight! I can get more money out of the ATM!'"
– "I’ve been there before gambling at a casino where I withdrew the max daily limit, lost it, then had to wait until midnight for my limit to reset to pull out more 🤣"
– "I've had to make the call of shame to my bank to raise my daily withdrawal limit while pacing in the casino LMAO"
– "Same..I told them it's my money and I want it now."
— "Many many years ago, 2:00 or 3:00 a.m., I’m in the Stratosphere casino elevator, ready to go up to my room and call it a day. Before the elevator door closes, a beautiful petite showgirl walks in wearing a sparkly, topless showgirl outfit. Yes, I said topless. She punches her floor number.
We stand there in silence for several seconds, then I say, 'Hello.'
She looks at me, rolls her eyes, and says 'Yeah, right.'
Then gets off at her floor."
– "Ah yes, the James May approach"
— "I met a dude at Jims Gaming hall (I think that was the name it was on-ish the strip) back in like '12 in the bathroom. He offered us some blow and then a limo ride to the Rhino where we ended up in the VIP room. All expenses paid, everything was free, bottle service, lap dances, whatever we wanted. Dude had hit a jackpot and just wanted people to party with. We had so much fun and didn't spend a dime. My buddy and I grabbed a cab back to the MGM Grand at like 6am, never saw that dude again. Epic Vegas Night.
Edit to add: My buddy and I had blown through all of our money and were chugging $2 pitchers of beer to quell our sorrows."
– "This was the gods blessing you and your friend"
— "This will date me, but meeting Evel Knievel in the lobby after a Redd Foxx show."
– "In 1990 I saw him lose 5 hands of blackjack in a row at the Aladdin. $2500 each. It was obviously no big deal to him."
— "Grocery shopping at 3am and seeing Tyson, wearing his Mystery Team track suit, buying eggs and ice cream. There were like 4-5 times I saw him at the same spot, wearing that track suit, and started to think he was fucking with me.
Watching Coolio play single credit quarter video poker at South Point was up there.
Being at my local bar and having Nicolas Cage order a drink by telling the bartender he was 'trying to find a memory.' He went in depth to explain that he was trying to taste a specific memory, and listed flavors he was after. The bartender ended up making him ~10 drinks to try. He was a regular there and ordered about the same way each time."
– "Nic is using a common request for bartenders where they add Paraguay to the drink without calling attention to it."
– "Seems about on brand for him."
— "I have tons of stories, but one of my faves was a friend who fell asleep in the bed of his truck, with his arm horizontally across his eyes… but his truck was on the top of the parking structure, which at the time was exposed to the sun… He passes out sometime in the middle of the night. He wakes up around 11 AM… With a sunburn on the top of his head as well as the bottom of his face… A horizontal stripe where his arm was went right over his eyes. It was hilarious talking about it the entire weekend…"
– "Me and a bunch 10-12 lifelong buddies went on a deep sea fishing trip in SD about 15 years ago. We get there late Friday night and there is a bar across from our hotel. We drink until they close. Get up at 6 to go fishing. One of my buddies gets incredibly sea sick. Can't stand up without throwing up. Finally goes and sits on the bow with his hands crossed and Terminator style sunglasses on and falls asleep. Mind you it's about 8 am at this point. All day. Had a similar sunburn to what you are talking about. But he had sunglasses and each arm had a stripe from where they were crossed. I've told that story every chance I get."
– "Your friend is lucky. Someone did that while I was at a festival, overheated and died."
— "Someone offered me $40 for a single donut while I was walking through the Golden Nugget Casino."
– "okay but did you take them up on the offer?"
– "Yessss 😂"
— "9am on Fremont on a Sunday: There was a band playing with a hula hoop dancer on stage to a crackhead tweaking out to the music and somebody in a giant guerrilla suit.
I thought to myself, 'centuries of toiling and struggle has brought humanity to this singular moment in history.'"
– "Gorilla suit guy puts in work, I see him every time I’m at Fremont. Day or night."
— "Came in town for a Mayweather fight, stayed at Palace Station, paid the front desk guy extra to get the OJ robbery room.
Who knows if it really was the room, gave him an extra 20 for it. He also told me he had a guy who could bring me weed so I got the number and called him to my room & got a quarter off him within 20 minutes of check in.
Most Vegas casino check in ever."
— "Not me, but a friend of mine got blackout drunk and woke up on an airplane. He had to ask the guy next to him where the flight was going."
– "That is absolutely insane!!! Where was the plane going? I need more of the story.."
– "From what he was able to piece together, he got really drunk, lost a few grand at the tables (he could afford it at least, lol), got in a cab and went straight to the airport. I'm really shocked that anyone let him on a plane, but I guess he can hold his liquor. He kind of came to, asked the guy next to him where the plane was going, and got a really confused "Denver". He was relieved that at least he was going home, still not sure how he got there, but ended up just falling asleep for the rest of the flight."
— "Saw Ben Affleck leave a big tip to his server and then 5 minutes later JLo came and took the tip away from the server."
– "I heard about this on tabloids."
– "Ya, felt bad for the server, JLo was a total c*** about it. Basically said 'give me that back, he shouldn't have given it to you'"
— "During a bachelor party, my brother in law passed out near the strip in front of one of the big hotels. (It was the 90s, before the strip became unwalkable.) He woke up with loose change and a few bills thrown on him. Guess folks took pity. He got a cheap breakfast out of it though. 😂"
