Snoop brought calm to my world. No, not like that.
Wow, that’s kinda… meta
So E3 Expo is in town this week, which means LA is even more chock a block full of geeks than usual. Possibly bursting at the seams, even. For valets, the amount of private parties & events has everyone hopping to fill shifts.
I signed up for two nights in a row at one event site, and while the organizers thought there would be 150 cars, they were mostly taxis & hired cars, so they were right about the estimate, just not about how many valets would be needed to handle it, which makes for a group of people in black & white standing by the side of a building in downtown LA all staring at their phones.
:pause for PSA:
Dear Internet – how did I ever pass the time as a valet without you? :hugs!:
So there I am, scrolling my Livejournal flist, and I see an article on the Microsoft Kinect and all the fuss around it, rah rah rah. Now, we don’t get told what the event is before we show up for Other!ValetCo. So I’m reading this article on my phone, looking at the people coming in, looking at the article, noticing they’ve all got Microsoft stuff… hey! I’m at the cool afterparty that people are talking about. Go me! Granted, I’m a valet, so the only reason I can get past the security on the 11th floor is because they assume I’m headed to the bathroom, but as I jokingly said to someone, “Right now, every video game geek in town wants to be me!”
Incidentally, after two nights of that was last night at a property which was simply described as “One of Snoop Dog’s places.” While I didn’t see anything, and I personally have spent my entire life footloose & drug free, I’m pretty sure that simply setting foot on the premises automatically invalidated my ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening for 30 days.
It also brought about this comment from me on Facebook:
is it a bad sign when you can say, “working Snoop Dog’s party last night was the calmest 4 hours I’ve had in the last two days”? I think it might be what I’d call “an indicator”…
previous adventures
- It’s not quite the end of the world as we know it, and I’m doin’ awww’ite…
- If I just lay here would you lie with me and just forget the world…
