Fun at Atlantic City (658 hits)
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Submitted by <ddas85.at.optonline.net> (View user info) at 2003-12-18 07:51:03 EST
Don't worry, this isn't going to be another post about UberCon. We've read the stories, seen the pics, photoshopped the pics, and moved on. This is about my time at Atlantic City back when I was about 12 or 13. What the hell kind of fun can a 12 year old have in Atlantic City, you ask? Lots. Here is the background info: The reason we went to AC is that there is this big cultural convention thing that happens in cities across North America. That year it happened to be in AC. My family went, and also a whole lot of our family friends. So anyway, here's why it was awesome:
While the parents went to shows and events and whatnot, we (the kids) got to wander around the hotels. Loud music, room service, cards, hotel pool ... it was great. One guy brought a guitar and another brought a keyboard, so we had some duets going (with a techno beat in the background thanks to the keyboard).
The best part of the trip was the elevators. Yes, the elevators. A friend (who I had known pretty much since the beginning of my life) and I got a bit bored of just wandering around the huge hotel. Being mischievous little brats, we pulled the old trick of getting into a full elevator near the top or bottom, hitting all the buttons, then running out... causing the poor bastards inside to have a very long trip. We broke up into two teams, each terrorizing different elevator shafts. We must have done that for a solid hour - just going pressing buttons, running away and escaping on a different elevator, going up to a different floor, repeating the process.
As fun as it was, I decided that we needed more. While it was fun to annoy the hell out of random people, it would be a lot more fun to actually see their reaction as we did it! That's when I got my brilliant idea. The two of us would pretend not to know eachother. One of us would get in the elevator, press a single button, and wait - just like a normal person. Then other would do the 'run in, press all the buttons, run out'. The first time we did this, I was the 'normal' person. I got into a full elevator with a bored look on my face. Then, my friend ran in, pressed all the buttons, and ran out.
At that moment, the look on the other peoples' faces were absolutely priceless. The anger, frustration, incredulity, hatred - it was as if Trevor Johnson had stuck one of his posts on the bulletin board in the back of the elevator. One guy sighed, 'this isn't fair...'. I responded, "yeah, what a jerk!". I tried my hardest to keep myself under control - I must have looked very strange, trying to look angry and suppressing laughs at the same time. Many of the people got off on the next floor, to catch the next elevator. I went to our designated meeting point and breathlessly told him about the flawless success.
We went on to our next conquest. This time, I was the terrorizer and he was the normal person. He got in the elevator. A few seconds later, I went and did my thing, then ran out. I walked up the stairs to the meeting point, anxious to hear about how it went this time. Finally, my friend showed up, and he was absolutely laughing his head off.
"Pretty cool, right? I told you it would be great to see their reactions!" I said.
"Oh, it was pretty cool all right! You know what this guy said to me?"
"Of course."
"He said, 'tell your friend that if I ever catch him, I'm going to rip his fucking head off."
"..."
Wow. The guy had seen through our disguise. Needless to say, we stopped that little game and locked ourselves in a hotel room for the next few hours. Still, it was totally worth it. We did other stuff that doesn't seem very fun on paper - but let me tell you, its great to be 12 years old and completely free to wander around a huge hotel.
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Submitted by PizzaEagle (user info) at 2003-12-18 09:22:53 EST (#)
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i want to go back and gamble or something. whats the requirement 21 or 18?