I'm sure that everyone saw the news about the Monte Carlo fire a month ago or so. On that day, I happened to pull into the parking lot I always park in, at UNLV at right about eleven a.m. As I was pulling in, P&AF happened to call me. I also happened to look up towards the strip and see tons of black smoke pouring from the direction of New York New York (I could see New York New York, but the Monte Carlo building was hidden from my view by the MGM residences.)
M: "Wow, there's tons of black smoke coming from the strip."
P: "Yeah, I guess the Monte Carlo's on fire."
I am totally serious when I say that his tone was about like what you would expect of someone telling you that they went to work on a Monday.
M: "What? The Monte Carlo is on fire????!!!"
P: "Yeah, the roof or something. We might get some patients in here because of it. So how is your day going?"
Apparently it wasn't much of an event to him. I on the other hand had to hang up to make phone calls to people who actually would find the information as crazy as I did. I had to get a closer look and walk until I could see around the Residences. To him it was sort of like, same-old, same-old, a huge casino is on fire, there are sirens and helicopters everywhere, whatever...
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