Worship Gamblor

[wanton_bliss]

I used to say it felt like I was living my life from weekend to weekend, but lately it seems like it is from vacation to vacation. Even I recognize that going to Vegas twice in as many months is just as likely to represent a problem as it is entertainment. Nevertheless, when A. told me that our ex-bandmate V. had a suite at the Wynn, I felt obligated to sign up. Now, this being A. and V., things have hardly gone the way I had planned. Since we arrive the day before our benefactor, A. and I were forced to find alternative sleeping arrangements this evening. A. promised me a twenty dollar room thanks to some comps, then a week later informed me that his plans fell through. So, tonight we will be paying a whopping forty bucks to crash somewhere in the Freemont. Then, a few days ago, I learned that V.'s promise also fell through and we are not in fact staying at the Wynn.

Now granted, the Venetian is still considered by most to be the most extravagant casino on the Strip, but it ain't the Wynn. There is a certain cachet associated with the Wynn, the newest most fabulous casino in all of Vegas. The bragging rights are what sold me on the trip.

I will settle for our 650 sq ft suite at the Venetian with its sunken living room and all marble fixtures if I must.

I won't be happy about it though.

The point of all this really is that I have a gambling problem.

And my mother is only enabling me by giving her son a hundred dollars every time he jaunts off to several days' worth of drunken debauchery in Las Vegas.