New in town, we are always looking for interesting work in entertaining places so we stopped in to take a look at the biggest employer in Temecula, California-- a casino on nearby Indian land--Pechanga Casino--about noon on a week-day
Well, Pechanga Casino is HUGE--billed as the second biggest casino in the United States--it is really awfully big--with several restaurants and showrooms and miles of slot machines and other gaming tables and such--and they must hire an army of people to keep it going--but it is not a place for us.
All big casinos always have a peculiar odor--have you noticed? Not exactly a stink, but not pleasant either---sort of a mixture of perfume, restroom deodorant, people, stale booze, fast food, carpet cleaner and I don't know what-all. Anyway, not something you would like to inhale all day every working day--not a scent that appeals to us.
Something else that I personally find unappealing are the casino's customers---at this time of day mainly old people sitting or sprawling in the ultra-comfortable seats at the gaming machines--the marks-- losing, ever so slowly, ever so certainly, their money in the oh-so-ever-so-loose slots.
It bothers me that OLD people can be so ignorant. Haven't they learned ANYTHING in all the years they have been alive?
So we satisfied our curiosity about the town's biggest employer and, tailed by a young plainclothes security man, walked back out to the parking lot to drive on to nearby Wal-Mart for some of the Chinese-made stuff we needed.
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