Sunday Mornings (or Late Saturday Nights) in Las Vegas May 5
I spent Saturday afternoon out in Pahrump, Nevada, at the Sin City Chamber of Commerce’s annual picnic, chili cook-off, and hoe-down (it’s at the Chicken Ranch, so, har-har!) and I was very, very tired when I made it home to Vegas Saturday night. I took a shower to wash off the day, ate some spring rolls and some pho tai nam (which is like my favorite comfort food,) and was asleep just as the sun was setting. It was great for me, actually, because I’ve been experiencing some pretty serious, ass-kicking insomnia. So I woke up on Sunday morning at like 6am, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and wanting to get out, enjoy the day, and have some breakfast…
There isn’t one on my end of town, but I definitely do enjoy going to Omelet House, here in Las Vegas, for a nice breakfast (if you go, go to the one on West Charleston - the quality is better, in my experience, even though the strip center it is in looks pretty old and rundown.) I usually get the Bugsy Siegel, which is as beefy and kickass as you’d expect from an omelet with this name, but lately I’ve been getting a Country Club, add avocado, please.
So after driving up the 15 and exiting west on Charleston, my cohorts and myself pulled up to the stop light in front of Frankie’s, right near UMC Hospital. Across the intersection and in the middle of the street I saw a guy being chased by two other men. It was initially a little alarming until I got a second to pay attention to exactly what I was looking at. The men doing the chasing were in solid blue and solid green. The man running away from them - in a rather scattered, clumsy way - was in all white. You guessed it! A hospital patient escaped from treatment and two orderlies were chasing after him trying to get him to return to the hospital! This poor guy had on nothing but a hospital gown! The reason he was running so clumsily was because the blacktop road was probably stinging the hell out of his bare feet, slowing his jailbreak. What a sight! I wonder if I will ever need to make a sudden, daring escape from University Medical Center? I can promise you that if I do I will definitely have sneakers right under my bed. This poor guy was completely unprepared for this kind of adventure. Fortune favors the prepared.
After our morning’s entertainment we had a great little breakfast. I was up so early I had all sorts of things accomplished before lunch. We had so much time, in fact, that I should have taken Nick for a haircut.
Tags: breakfast, daring escapes, hospital, Omelet House, omelets, patients, UMC, University Medical Center