Comments by user: barcroft
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.
natkingcolebasket, not just you!
Justice saying that while waitressing she was offered more than she would get as a stripper for a lapdance reminded me of my strip club going days. At the club I always went to there was a tiny counter where you could buy bottled water, potato chips etc. The employee who usually was behind the counter was a demure girl who was always fully dressed in street clothes. In talking to other guys at the club I learned that my fantasy was shared by most of the other men there: We were more attracted to "Snack Bar Girl" than to most of the scantily clad dancers who stripped naked every day. We were all fantasizing that one day she would emerge from behind the counter and dance. It never happened.
There were two reasons for the fantasy, I think. One was that we always want what we can't have. The other was that too much of anything loses its appeal. It's even possible to O.D. on girls in lingerie or bikinis if you see them in large numbers constantly, so that a typical looking average "college girl" in jeans and a sweater becomes more alluring.