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September 22, 2009 · 1:47 PM

More than breakfast served to obnoxious, alpha douchebag

By Justice

Illustration: Justice

The security guard asks me, “Have you ever seen that movie Hangover?” I looked at him without answering, because I know where he’s going with that question and it’s irrelevant my complaint. He turns to my friend who says she has seen it. We have just been harassed by a group of drunk men while we were having breakfast after work inside a casino café. The security guard explains, like we don’t know, that tourists come to Vegas and behave the way that they see people behave in movies. He was insinuating that we should get over it and go home. We didn’t let it go. He called his supervisor and I had to tell the story a second time.

My friend and I had been sitting by ourselves when three clearly drunk tourists walked in. As the host was seating them, they insisted on being seated at the nearest table to us. They were not making any attempt to hide their interest in us. I’m used to this kind of behavior. A group of young men that had been sitting in the same table before them were staring just as intently, so I didn’t pay it much mind.

Moments later, the alpha douche of the new group left his table and came to our table. He pulled out one of the empty chairs and asked if he could join us, assuming we’d grant him permission to sit in the chair he prepared to sit in. We very politely told him that we were not interested in having another person at our table. This rejection in front of his friends, albeit a polite rejection, brought out his unbridled douchebaggery. Sitting back down at his table, he and his friends began to yell out stupidities to try to coax a conversation out of us. “You’re gorgeous!” one of them repeated in our general direction. “Where are you from?” they insisted on knowing. We ignored them even though it was infuriatingly irritating. About the time that they sat down we were already ready for our check so we were going to let it go. We got up to leave. They kept it up. We kept ignoring them as we were walking by. “Yeah, go home! Go home you f-ing bitches!” They said it again to make sure we heard them.

Upon our insistence, my friend and I led two security guards and what I’m guessing was the security manager back to the table of misogynistic drunks. For his physical stature or his loud voice, it was somehow clear who the alpha douche was. He spoke for the group. He denied the allegations, but (luckily for us) security asked him to leave anyway, which brought out the worst in him. He got in the manager’s face and loudly exhaled a list of profanities, at which point we gained all the credibility in the world. Another one of them freaked out on security as well. They coincidentally had ordered the same thing I had ordered and had barely begun to eat. I’d have been mad too. It was really delicious.

The manager told alpha douche, “You can still leave, but now you’re gonna have to bail your buddy out of jail. We’re calling Metro.” The mention of police involvement escalated the situation in such an unpleasant way. Unpleasant for them, anyway. I was smiling. Justice was served.

10 Comments So Far

while i agree with u on all of ur story im a bit sad that u "seem" (seem being the keyword) like a lot of dancers a bit infatuated with the compliments about ur looks and all this.
Obviously those guys were pathetic bu i "have the feeling" (again i might be extremly wrong) that because u get tons of compliments at work its hard for u to appreciate genuine ones.

If so its a bit hard bc for some shy guys sometimes its very difficult to make a compliment to a woman or simply its heartfelt.

Anyways im not judging at all.Im just saying that some dancers (im not including u at all in this) have a very bad attitude where they think bc their pretty they are owed everything or so,are very stuck up,and as a result end up alone or with bf that are alpha malde dominant type that dont give a damn abt them but they have money...Of course it doesnt last.

Again i am not including u in this at all but im sure u have seen that kind of behaviour at work and i personally find it sad.

Karma...
xo

Posted by: natkingcolebasket on 9/22/09 at 2:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Some guys just don't know how to treat a lady and if they have reached drinking age without learning, they aren't going to get together. In the practice of criminal law I learned that 90% of the folks you encounter are merely sanitation problems--and those are the innocent ones! Better luck this week.

Posted by: rrbill on 9/22/09 at 3:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

natkingcolebasket:

I appreciate compliments but what he was doing was forcing himself into an interaction with me that was completely unwanted. If he would have said something like "I just wanted to say that I think you're really pretty", I would have thanked him before I sent him away. What he did was aggressive and out of line.

rrbill:

They were really young. Probably younger than me. I hope they learned a lesson from the situation. I have a feeling they didn't.

Posted by: Justice_4_all on 9/22/09 at 4:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Unfortunately Vegas attracts alot of douchebags, they come to live here, play here, drink here and make fools of themselves here. This town attracts a huge arrogant, loser element. I have lived here for 23 yrs and have seen this type of behaviour countless times, sometimes directed at me and I am a man. It's the reason I don't go into casinos anymore or the strip. It's the main reason I am finally calling it quits in this town before I wind up in the Nevada penal system for popping one of these a--holes. This town is for idiots.

Posted by: RHG on 9/22/09 at 7:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)

A gorgeously dexterous and excoriating elocution ascribing withdrawal symptoms of some infused with personal wonderfulness. Denial-of-service protocal sometime have the {bad-trip} affect of a psychotropic narcotic.
A (very) loose provincial analogy...
The End Of Civilization 49 sec

Posted by: cypher on 9/22/09 at 11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Hi Justice,

I agree with u that type of comportment is not acceptable.
I am glad u appreciate genuine compliments. Im not a shy person at all but being a guy i have seen so many guys crushed (myself included) with infatuadted girls.
I think the problem u rose in ur post has even deeper roots than that, LV represents everything that is wrong in the USA. There are a lot of good ppl like everywhere but you get to see a lot of shady behaviour.
I think young men drink too much and watch too much hip hop videos and think women or strippers are like wht they see in the clubs.
I find it rude and so disrespectful , even if its a game and it is work (even worse outside) to talk badly to a woman...
These youg men will not learn till they get kicked in the butt or soemthing, unfortunately they are so many like that in vegas. A stripper friend of mine was telling me its a very ahrd city to have a stable relationship and id agree,.
U take care :)

seb

Posted by: natkingcolebasket on 9/23/09 at 3:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)

They were way the heck out of line. The best part of the story is that you got to enjoy your whole breakfast before they rudely interrupted.
I don't frequent strip clubs, or even other clubs, hardly at all when in vegas. The best times i've had were at the old centerfolds, sitting at the bar, having a beer with a dancer, and just relating and chatting with each other as people.
But, inquiring minds want to know....could this have been brought on by the new enhancements? :)

Posted by: rhinodude on 9/23/09 at 12:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)

pretty sure none of those idiots meant to be nice in their a**hattery.......so no matter how many compliments, when it comes from dirtbags it means very little. good for you to go get security and show these f*cktards that behavior like this is not acceptable!

Posted by: MG on 9/24/09 at 4:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Justice,
I have no problem with how you handled the situation. You deserve to be allowed to eat in peace and quiet. But. And there is a but...

My guess is that the young men had expected to have won big bucks and scored some hot babes by the time they found themselves with empty pockets and just themselvers for company in a coffee shop at dawn.

That doesn't excuse their behavior, but also complicit is the meretricious come-on of Las Vegas, the city that promises everything, delivers little, while taking as much as it can.

Las Vegas bases its economy importantly on and has as its raison d'etre the sexual objectification of women as much as gambling. The smarmy wink and meretricious promise of The LVCVA's "What happens in Vegas..." is just one example of a decades old promotion of the city as a place where one's carnal as well as cash fantsies will be fulfilled. When the scam is finally revealed to the victims, trouble often ensues.

Posted by: barcroft on 9/26/09 at 1:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)

barcroft:
i dont think but is the right word...
I agree with u however on somethings....VEgas's mayor itself is knee down in corruption in mafia and nobody does anything.
Some of the strip club are owned by so called business men who are in fact the degree 0 of mankind.
Its a city where everything is a game,relationship for you adults in their 20's dont work that well.Lots of dancers i knew rather stayed alone.
Its all a game`...

Posted by: natkingcolebasket on 9/26/09 at 5:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)

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