aaron just wanted to go to the swatch store

“It caused a loud bang, there was a sub­se­quent pan­ic, think­ing it was pos­si­ble gun­fire giv­en the na­ture of what’s been hap­pen­ing across the nation.”
—Audacity/KCBS, 18 july 2022
 

What a rough fuck­ing night.

I am not nat­u­ral­ly a pa­tient per­son and I know this about my­self so I re­al­ly, re­al­ly try to work on it, but I’m also aware of oth­er peo­ple around me and I try to be con­scious of their time and oth­er needs and not act like I’m the only one be­ing served. So many peo­ple don’t.

They just don’t care about any­one but them­selves and it has drained me.

Las Ve­gas is full of these types: In­con­sid­er­ate peo­ple with clue­less looks on their faces whose sole pur­pose on this earth seems to be mak­ing every­thing as dif­fi­cult as pos­si­ble for servers and oth­er peo­ple who have their shit to­geth­er and are just try­ing to be ef­fi­cient, oh my god.

And just so we are clear I am not talk­ing about any of the peo­ple we trav­eled with, they were all won­der­ful. I’m re­fer­ring to the en­ti­tled ass­holes who think they’re roy­al­ty and the only peo­ple on earth and they can do what­ev­er they want be­cause they have money.

When I’m hav­ing fun and I know it’s just for a few days, I can man­age. Af­ter what hap­pened Sat­ur­day night, I’m so spent.

Just be­fore 10 p.m., we’d got­ten out of a cab at New York New York and were head­ed to the Swatch store.
 

A lit­tle while lat­er, we were at the MGM Grand and every­thing be­came su­per fucked up su­per fast so I’m a lit­tle blur­ry on the de­tails, but sud­den­ly crowds of peo­ple were run­ning past us and then it was weird­ly quiet. 

I re­mem­ber see­ing two per­form­ers with yel­low and black feath­ered head dress­es who were just fly­ing down the stairs in heels, kind of cow­er­ing as they ran. 

We re­al­ized this was very bad so we turned around and fol­lowed the crowd as fast as we could. 

At least twice we en­coun­tered a large group of cops with huge guns and bul­let­proof vests so we went the op­po­site di­rec­tion they were going. 

We found our­selves stuck in the MGM, which is just a huge clus­ter­fuck of a maze. Even­tu­al­ly, we found a staff room be­hind where a pok­er tour­na­ment was tak­ing place. 

The ta­bles were all emp­ty be­cause peo­ple had stood up and just left every­thing. We ran into the staff room and they let us. It was a lock­ing door and one of the staff was stand­ing there look­ing around the cor­ner to see if they’d need to shut it.

What was a pan­ic about a po­ten­tial shoot­er was a “loud bang” caused by some ass­hole break­ing a win­dow.
 

Af­ter it was clear and safe to go, it took us al­most two fuck­ing hours to make our way back to the Bellagio.

We missed our Neon Mu­se­um tour. Aaron and I went back to our room and I took a show­er and just cried.

Sec­ond time in my life I’ve been in a sit­u­a­tion like this one. Lay­ing in bed, all I could think about was what school chil­dren must go through when they ex­pe­ri­ence that *but* it’s also real. 

Mis­er­able end to this va­ca­tion. I just want­ed to be home with my kit­ty cat. 

This coun­try is so fucked up and broken.
 

“There has been an ex­plo­sion at Hoover Dam in Nevada.”
—Sky News, 19 july 2022

It’s a cursed place.

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2022 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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