• We are now running on a new, and hopefully much-improved, server. In addition we are also on new forum software. Any move entails a lot of technical details and I suspect we will encounter a few issues as the new server goes live. Please be patient with us. It will be worth it! :) Please help by posting all issues here.
  • The forum will be down for about an hour this weekend for maintenance. I apologize for the inconvenience.
  • If you are having trouble seeing the forum then you may need to clear your browser's DNS cache. Click here for instructions on how to do that
  • Please review the Forum Rules frequently as we are constantly trying to improve the forum for our members and visitors.

Trip out to Las Vegas

denwego

Regular Member
Joined
Jun 30, 2006
Messages
276
Location
Houston, Texas, USA
imported post

My girlfriend and I have come to Las Vegas for the weekend/beginning of next week as an early Thanksgiving trip to see her family out there. Yesterday, we passed through Vail along I-70 as a bathroom break. Since I had never been to Vail before, I didn't realize that the town is about three blocks wide and three miles long, and the only place someone who doesn't make $750k a year can go to the bathroom is the town's visitor center just off of the interstate. Thankfully they were having some sort of free day for their parking garages, so we pulled in and went inside. When I came out of the back area, talking on my cell phone, I saw two cops standing in the hallway who immediately gave a salute/wave to me as I walked towards them. Since I had my cellphone going (built-in record mod for an iPhone... sshhh!), I can offer the verbatim exchange:

Me - Howdy.
Off. 1 - Afternoon, sir. Do you happen to have a concealed permet?
Me - I do. Let me just grab it.
(Off. 1 and 2 glance at it and hand it back)
Off. 1 - That looks OK.
Off. 2 - What you doing up here? Looking for tour info?
Me - Just stopping to use the bathroom. I conjure someone called y'all about me and my pistol?
Off.1 - Yeah, there's quite a crowd outside. Someone came running up to me saying "some cowboy has a gun across the street!"
Me - (Laugh) I'd rather have a cowboy with a gun than a psycho.
Off. 1 - Me too. Some people here don't take too well to people having guns around here.
Me - (Chuckle) Californians?
(Both officers laugh)
Off. 2 - You're not kidding.
Me - I'm surprised they even knew what a gun looked like.
Off. 1 - (Laugh) Yeah.
(At this point, there are a total of seven or eight officers in the foyer, two of them peeking from around a corner on the far end)
Off. 2 - Well, that's all we need.
Me - Wow, many of you lurking about... I'm glad I can make your day so exciting.
Off. 1 - They can't fault us for trying. And yeah, we all have to come out when some "cowboy with a gun" is walking around!
Off. 2 - Have a safe trip.

After that, my girlfriend and I tipped our hats and walked back outside, to find a good dozen people clustered at the glass doors looking with saucer-sized eyes as we walked towards them. In one of the more goofy sights I've seen recently, when they realized we were coming through the doors, they all glanced downwards or to the side or some other direction in a very poor attempt to make it seem like they weren't looking at us. We just smiled and tipped our hats to them as well as we passed through their midsts.

So, while I'd always prefer to not draw any attention or whatnot, this takes the prize so far for most-amusing-interaction for me. :celebrate
 

openryan

State Researcher
Joined
Apr 18, 2007
Messages
1,602
Location
, Indiana, USA
imported post

Funny! Glad to hear the police were receptive and respected your rights! Hope everything else went well for you :)
 
Top