Snidely, you were done in by juxtaposition. My latest post was not intended for you. Although you did ask the original question, I had answered it and moved on. Then the sitcom fixated nonreader piped up. Sorry for the confusion. As to rhetorical questions, if they have actual answers which apply to the issue, then those answers are both relevant and perhaps enlightening.
MissL7777, your booking preference is similar to mine. However, years of reading posts by people who expect to be comped in precisely this way or that led me to make the statement about which nights people generally like to be comped. That sort of thinking (as you may have noticed) is rather more prevalent on the paid side than it is here. But honestly, if I played as much as they do (and I assume lost as much as they do) I might cop the same attitude as theirs.
MoneyLA has made a point which expands somewhat on the issue of high maintenance/low return guests which one of my posts also mentioned:
"now about the idea that empty rooms lead to empty casinos?? well, this goes back to the basic issue. if you fill the empty rooms with players who won't play (gamble) at appropriate levels and milk comps and free drinks you only compound your losses. so you don't fill up empty rooms with low level players who wont gamble appropriately and spend money in other profit-making areas on the property."
At the risk of actually being irrelevant, rather than just being called so, I maintain that many (although perhaps not most) of us who were receiving weeknight room comps at V/P did in fact spend quite a lot of money in other profit-making areas of the casino. I did so partly out of gratitude for the comp and because I knew that to play as much as was expected was a chore for me, and we don't go to Vegas to do chores. Whether or not such expenditures were tracked and factored into some sort of overall guest value profile, I do not know, but it seems unfair to assume that guests who don't play much also don't spend much. It was mean and inaccurate to assume as well that these guests "milk comps and free drinks" and to use the derogatory term "milk" to describe the action. The casino is not anybody's mother. More to the point of the original post, it is and always will be rude to take back a proffered tit.
And now to the issue of my lovely mug. Once a student of mine, age fifteen, told me I resemble Phil Jackson. Phil and I had much bigger hair then, but that was pretty much the only resemblance I could see. After that, I always assumed that people see in you what they want to see.
