To this day, I dread New Year's Eve. (very, very long. but funny.)

[Pagan]

I just went gambling myself (first timer) just the other day while vacationing in the Bay area, went to Lake Tahoe. I found gambling to be quite boring as I didn't win much.

I worked at Harvey's in Lake Tahoe for a summer. I worked 4th of July and that was bad enough, I shudder to think what New Year's is like! But I actually had a lot of fun, too.

I spent a little bit of time gambling, and yes, it's boring! However, it was one of the best paying jobs I've ever had. We got paid every two weeks, with tips in between. I made as much in tips as my regualr paycheck! I also got spoiled there. There was no tolerance for the customers giving the employees a hard time. Of course, that could have been because I was the only girl on the 1am - 9am shift!

Ooh, and I got to hear and meet Jim Lovell, ya know, of "Houston, we have a problem" Apollo 13 fame. This was special for me because Frank Borman, another Apollo astronaut, is from Las Cruces, my home town!

[Jester]

Gambling: I don't gamble, so casinos are very entertaining for me...other than the fact that I am one of the only idiots actually paying for my drinks, that is.

New Year's Eve: I do not work NYE. I have done it only once, and that was because my school, Arizona State, was in a major bowl game on New Year's Day, and there was NO WAY I was going to miss that.

How do I get away with not working New Year's Eve every single year? Well, it really is amazing what you can get away with when you volunteer to work double shifts on Christmas Eve AND Christmas Day. Everyone has their priorities, and mine is NYE.

[repsac]

number eight got me laughing. Even greater might be an irony that he had just won big.

[friendofjimmyk]

This sounds like the makings of a Mel Brooks movie or National Lampoon.

[friendofjimmyk]

number eight got me laughing. Even greater might be an irony that he had just won big.

Repsac, I love your avatar! Cute

[karma_gypsy]

I worked at Harvey's in Lake Tahoe for a summer. I worked 4th of July and that was bad enough, I shudder to think what New Year's is like! But I actually had a lot of fun, too.

We went to Harrah's! Quite busy there, in my opinion, I would even consider it a large casino, I definately would hate to see either on New Year's!!

Are the tips really worth workin' there though? I mean, waiters/waitresses and delivery drivers get tips, but probably not nearly as enough as casino's . . . It's like picking the lesser of three evils . . .

[Spiffy McMoron]

#9 a couple guys get into a food fight in the buffet. They are throwing stuff at each other, but hitting other guests. Some dude gets up when his wife gets food in her face and assaults one of the guys. Buffet employees try to pull him off, and then other guy assaults employees. Huge melee involving 6 or 7 people then goes down at the buffet until the psycho chef comes out and starts waving his knives around and yelling maniacally. The two guys who started it all cleared out quick, without paying their bill. Two employees end up with minor injuries. (wasn't there...but we got to watch this unfold on the security cameras later. Funniest thing I have EVER seen.)

Bluto: See if you can guess what I am now.
[puts mashed potatoes in his mouth, chews it, hits his cheeks with his fists and spits it out]
Bluto: I'm a zit. Get it?

[Moirae]

Watch Four Rooms. Be warned though... the music at the beginning will get stuck in your head.

I've seen that movie. Don't much like it. I don't like short story form.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Bluto: See if you can guess what I am now.
[puts mashed potatoes in his mouth, chews it, hits his cheeks with his fists and spits it out]
Bluto: I'm a zit. Get it?

Babs: That boy is a P-I-G pig.