Pahrump
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Not much changes around here, they keep electing corrupt people to the town council, who in turn keep trying to pass idiotic new laws that get defeated by a majority. The latest bill would be mandatory trash pick up. If you are a land owner, you have to pay for weekly trash pick up whether you live on your property or not. I smell a big kick-back somewhere. Since we already have optional trash pick up at $10.00 a month and a local land fill for those who would rather take their trash themselves, there isn't much need. What they do need to do is get rid of some of the pack rat houses around town that have yards full of used cars, old appliances, carpet rolls and anything else they can pick up. There's a place not far from us that is so bad that their drive way is blocked off. It's an acre of trash with a couple of mobile homes set up on it.
Next up on the complaint list.....the casinos. Talk about tight! The Pahrump Nugget used to be the worst but must have gotten the hint from lack of business and seems a bit looser now. We've been back a few times and I always seem to do well. My husband does well in the poker room, too. Mountain View Casino, on the other hand, has gotten so bad that you could shoot Roman Candles off in there on a Friday night and not hit anyone. You hear people complain, as they go slamming angrily out the doors, that you can't win a thing and I have to agree. They have now opened a computerized poker room that holds tournaments for the WSOP satellite games. I want a dealer siting in front of me, not a computer screen. That means that the game is now run by computer, putting the odds in the houses favor. If Mr. McCaw, the original owner who passed away and left it to his kids, could see what they've done to it, he'd probably leave it to someone else in his will. Terrible's Town and Lakeside casinos we always stay away from, we've never done good at either of them. Same goes for Saddle West (or Saddle Worst as the locals call it). So, since there's no other form of adult entertainment like a movie theater, gaming is about all there is and we don't do much of that any more.
Fireworks....... We have 3 big fireworks stores in town. It's legal to buy them but not to set them off in Nye county. Uh, excuse me? There's something wrong with this. A few years ago the fireworks stores got together with the town council and passed a law that they could be fired off in Nye county in designated areas to be set up by each town. That was passed two or three years ago and no one has done anything about it. You'd think that the store owners would have gotten together with the town council and worked out areas on land owned by Nye county to set up fireworks sites but no. Let's drag our asses on that a few more years. So, it's still illegal to shoot off fireworks out on BLM land at the dry lake but everyone does it, especially on July 4th. California, on the other hand, has road blocks set up going back into Cali from here to confiscate all fireworks bought here as they are really illegal in Cali. The fire Marshall of Inyo county told our Town council one night that we should stop selling them and close the shops down. he was escorted from the building, told to leave and never come back. Yea, Tony DeMaeo!! Our sheriff rocks!!
Medical..... We finally got a hospital that opened a couple years ago and is very nice. They have a good staff, surgery facilities, a maternity ward. I had to use the E.R. once and was in and out fast and taken care of well. The problem in this town is competent doctors, the only one here I trust is Dr. Michael Reiner. He's taken care of our family since we moved here and has proven to be a good, caring doctor. Unfortunately, due to rising malpractice insurance in Nevada, he had to close his private practice and move into a local clinic that is less than wonderful but we still go so he can treat us.
Friends....still haven't found any to speak of except for Doc Reiner and a couple guys my husband knows from poker. I had made friends with a woman that went to my old chiropractor, she seemed nice. Turned out that all she did was bitch about everything. Not that people don't have things to complain about but I can't be around people that are that negative or they start dragging me down with them. Nothing I did for her was ever right. I permed her hair twice, she didn't like the sides, not curly enough. This was true but it was a problem with her hair, not my skills. I bought her a gift card to get her nails done for a wedding she was going to be in, even though I couldn't afford it. I figured that she's be really happy and excited. Nope. She said thanks and laid it over on a table like it was nothing. Hurt my feelings but I should have known by then. She hated the way the girl did them (I did hear all about that) and she was too rough with her so she took them all off after the wedding. She needed a new doctor because her old one didn't like her (in her words) so I recommended ours. Big mistake! She doesn't like him because (she says) he doesn't listen to her, won't put her on the meds she wants to be on and gives her tests that she thinks have nothing to do with what's wrong with her. She has the nerve to bad mouth him to me when she knows he's our friend. The truth of the matter is that no doctor will make her happy. The other truth is, she's a narcissist and cares for no one but herself. if she hadn't heard from me in a week it was never "Are you okay?" it was always "Oh, thank god! I've had such a bad week I have to tell you all about me." It would have been nice if she would have asked how we were doing sometine. I dumped her.
The truth is, we have pretty high standards for picking friends. They can't be druggies, they can drink but not be drunks, they have to like guns, fireworks, Halloween, be Republicans or not mind that we are and aren't bothered by the fact that we aren't Christians. Kind of hard to find that anywhere let alone here in meth land. We thought we found a great couple a few years ago. We took them out to lunch, discussed a bunch of stuff and they assured us that they didn't do drugs. Turns out the husband is high about 24/7/365. That ended that.
But, all in all, we still love living here. We love being close to Vegas, even though we don't make it down there that often, we can go whenever we feel like it. We like living in a state that is still a fairly free society but unfortunately Nevada is starting to turn socialist with the rest of the country, it'll just take longer to sink in here.
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