Old Man's Corners

AZ_HighCountry said:
Ok, so I said I would come back to this.

Back during my engineering career, NAFTA was in full swing and lots of contracts were being awarded to build up the principle roads for the traffic that would be running from Mexico to Canada and vice-versa. US Hwy 93 was one of those designated routes.

The heavy engineering firm I worked for at the time was awarded the contract to rebuild and widen to some degree Hwy 93 from Wells, NV. to Jackpot, NV. which is right on the state line with Idaho.

Like almost everything on this planet, water is required. Including for construction. I'll have to share this in two parts (with good reason) but for now, this involves a trip to the local brothel in Wells. There are two, or I should say were two at the time. Who knows now?

Anyways, while I am looking for potential water sources, I spot this dry stockpond with a 12" standpipe just outside of town. See screenshot below:

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How much more perfect can this be? It's right at the start of the project. So, I start asking around who owns it. One of the locals said, oh that's "so and so, he and his wife live at blah blah" which happened to be two streets over from our field office!

So, next morning, told my boss I was going to stop by "so and so's" house and ask about the water. I get over there, am dressed with a company safety vest on and of course have my company pickup. Mrs. So and so answers and I explain who I am and I wanted to get with Mr. So and so about the stock pond and possibility of buying water.

She says "oh, he's over at Donna's right now counting the receipts from last night". I'm kinda like "ok........when do you think he'll be back?" She says sometime in the afternoon, just go on over. I'll let him know your coming.

So, off to the brothel I go. Mind you, I'm still in company gear, right.

So, I walk in and one of the "girls" greets me with a big smile and says "how can I help you?".

I respond, "I'm AZ_HighCountry and I'm here to see so and so about buying some water". She looked at me like I had three heads and just stepped off of a UFO. His office must have been around the corner and he heard me. He comes out and says "hi, my wife called and said you were coming over. I'm so and so. Charlene (can't remember her name), would you get AZ some coffee please? I'll be a little bit."

She now realizes I'm serious and asks "would you like some coffee?" Sure, why not?

So she and I are chatting and then she says "hey, while you're waiting, would you like a tour?" I'm like "come again?" She says, would you like to see the place. Me? Why not?

So she's giving me a tour of a brothel while I'm waiting to make a deal for water. She shows me her room and then "this is our heated spa for our guests who like the relaxing experience". Now remember, I studied engineering and had quite a few chemistry classes and I assure you, there isn't enough chlorine that could kill whatever might have been living in that spa water. NFW was I EVER going to experience that. A man's got to know his limitations.

So as she's getting done with showing me around, so and so is at a point he can meet with me and we strike a deal for the water source. I thank her for the coffee and head back to the office. TBT, Donna's had the best coffee in town.

Get back to the office, my boss happens to be in and I told him it was a great trip over to Donna's. He looks at me like "WTF??? Huh???" So I explained to him what went down the past couple hours. He's laughing......"only you would go into a whorehouse just to buy water".

What's funnier is our field office was right across the street from the local health clinic. We always knew when it was doctor day. A van would pull up and a bunch of the girls would go in for their regular check-ups. If they had a clean bill of health, back to work they went. See, prostitution is legal throughout Nevada except for 2 maybe it is 3 counties. And, it is highly regulated. The girls have to get checked IIRC at least once a month though I think it is twice a month. And, since all of the house require the use of condoms, I'd venture it is safe to say you're better off getting laid in a cathouse than picking up some rando in a bar somewhere.

Strangely, she was actually nice to chat with though not someone obviously that you want to have any kind of a long term relationship with. Frankly, she was probably more normal than a lot of women I've known over the years.

On that note, tomorrow I'll share the story with securing a water source for the middle third of the project. I also learned something about the history of the railroads up there.
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Hey do you have the comic version of this story. 😆
 
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Sad situation
 
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Hate seeing this. My grandma died from this disease and boy was she active as a grandma until she was diagnosed. Hope Bruce isn't suffering it's difficult seeing him like this when he was such a good action star.
 
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I pretty much did everything in the video as an 80's kid. The jumping off ramps with bikes gave me a chuckle because my best childhood friend, who happened to live next door, we'd take our bikes and try to jump just about anything. No helmets or any protection just skin left on pavements. Summers back then were the best with summer vacation starting mid June until Labor Day with pops not being home all day due to work and mom doing her mom things at home. Sounds cliche but I feel sorry for kids today they are truly missing out what is like to be a real kid.
 
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AZ_HighCountry said:
Get back to the office, my boss happens to be in and I told him it was a great trip over to Donna's. He looks at me like "WTF??? Huh???" So I explained to him what went down the past couple hours. He's laughing......"only you would go into a whorehouse just to buy water".
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Firstly, thanks for sharing that long story. You reminded me of J_Hungary here with such a long post but more interesting than him. Haha! But your's are the kind of posts needed here: First hand accounts of us oldies from the past and present!
As to going to the whorehouse just to buy water, I too have sort of similar story. So in a previous job, our CEO, who was fairly young, took 4-5 of us techies to a very nice strip club in the town. We all thought he would be paying for it all; I think he did pay the entrance money. We sat down on nice sofas, ladies started coming to us. Some of us went to nearby rooms with ladies (individually). One lady came to me and the CEO said, go, enjoy. So I went with her and we sat across from each other in a room. I think she said something like okay, first give me X amount of $$ (I don't recall $$). I thought, hey the CEO was supposed to buy favors. Anyway, I told the lady, I wasn't interested and quickly rejoined the group. The rest of the group had a big laugh at me.
I am not into strip clubs, as I said, but 2-3 times taken there; never enjoyed. But I am not a total prude either!

AZ_HighCountry said:
And, it is highly regulated. The girls have to get checked IIRC at least once a month though I think it is twice a month. And, since all of the house require the use of condoms, I'd venture it is safe to say you're better off getting laid in a cathouse than picking up some rando in a bar somewhere.
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There are plenty of decent ladies available in bars. It depends on the town. I have been to larger city bars; they don't attract me. But country area, where I live, is full of beautiful chicks. In fact, just last night was in a bar where an extremely beautiful, scantily dressed bartender was serving. She is a college student, graduating next year. It was my 'Solo Night Out' and with wife not with me, I could ogle freely and I did that. The chick knew I was checking her out and I believe they enjoy the attention. At the end of the night, I couldn't resist asking to take her pic and she agreed and so I took the photo. Not going to share here, of course.

@Davey Crockett : Yes, I have seen Mechanical Bulls a plenty. But I prefer to have functional Family Jewels!
 
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