Casino & cab fare…
Leaving El Paso included some soaps with Grace – on more than one level – and a quick trip to have “lunch” at the casino. Quick dash through the slots netted $40 for me. Cab fare home, from the airport. That’s good. Casino food, that’s, well, it’s a buffet. Can’t be too bad. I made three trips for roast beef.
Grace makes soap and we watched some kind of soap opera. “I like the drama, totally unbelievable and yet….”
So much like what we listen to, from time to time?
Then, there was the airport. Remember the note about Scorpio’s? I had about ten minutes, trying to complete a lengthy and mentally challenging e-mail, work, such as it is, and I glanced up. Two cops had sauntered over to chat with the gate agent. I slammed the laptop back into its bag and popped over, “Hey, how you doing?” One them was a cop I know. Isn’t there just something really alluring about a woman in a uniform? With a big gun on her hip?
“Hey, what’s the weirdest question you get on this beat?” I asked.
She fingered, what looked like to me, a yellow plastic drill handle sticking out of holster, “They ask, ‘Is that a phaser?'”
I made small banter for a few minutes, I really do enjoy chatting with cops as they actually have a very fine-tuned sense of wit, and the more enjoyable conversations that I’ve had? Those are peace officers with a definite understanding of the absurdities of life. I finally hopped on the plane. I headed for that over wing-hot-tub section.
Weirdness never stops. Aquarius, Aquarius, Virgo, Virgo, and a lone Taurus (from Rodeo, NM, if I recall rightly). Since I’m not exactly a drinking man, but I do appreciate what happens when the right amount of libation is applied as a social lubricant, I dug out my frequent flyer drink coupons. They all managed to slam to a couple of rounds, and the conversation was lively. Interesting. I’ve got to get in the mode of being able to say, “Yes, I have a book out,” although I left my last copy – only copy – in El Paso.
It was just a surreal end to long weekend. There’s no rest, though, as the next party is about to start.…