Vegas or Bust …
Thursday, July 09th, 1998 | Author:

Karen, a Midwestern housewife, took her first trip to Las Vegas a few years ago.  She had done very well playing the slot machines, winning a bucket full of quarters.  Karen needed a break and she left the casino heading toward the elevators, taking her bucket with her.  She steps into the elevator and before the doors shut, three beefy and one slender, leather-clad black men stepped in.

Karen (never having spent much time around black people) clutches her bucket close to her chest.  One of the men says, “Hit the floor, lady,” and she does; quarters fly everywhere.

The men bust up laughing and they help Karen up from the floor and then help her collect her winnings.  One of the men explains that he meant for her to select her floor.  Mortified, the elevator arrives at her floor and she leaves embarrassed, and the men are still laughing.

Later that evening, a dozen roses are delivered to Karen’s room.  There is a one hundred-dollar bill attached to each rose. The note attached read:  “Thank you for the best laugh I’ve had in years!  (Signed)  Eddie Murphy

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