by Arneb » Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:28 pm
I am afraid I didn't get what you just said. Me lingo-tard. And why did you put the inverted commas around Beatty in your post before the last? I didn't get that either.
It was just that the subject of "America's crappiest city" brought fond memories to me of this little cillage just over the border drom Death Valley National park. We figured it would be cheaper to spend nights between our Death Valley tours outside the valley in some motel, not inside where they have posh hotels etc.
The motel was nice enough, but I remember how they had gambling machines even in the local gas station (probably had them in the toilets, too!) and smelly, hard-drinking, hard-smoking people operating them; how after enduring California's and Hawaii's anal-retentive policies on smoking for three weeks we were choking on the "air" that filled the local casino where, no weren't trying to gamble, we were trying to get something to eat because we had read something about a restaurant there; how we didn't dare enter one of the other rathole establishments that the village offered because we weren't sure if we would get out alive; and how the hot-dog-in-an-aluminium-foil I pulled out of the grill at the gas station was actually the only ever piece of fast food I was unable to finish. Our dinner consisted of apples, chocolate, crisps and soda we had bought in a supermarket far, far, away.
Sorry if that wasn't funny. :(
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