Check out the Die is Cast casino carpet gallery for two new galleries: Indian casinos and riverboat casinos. Sure, they each only have two casinos, but both have a panoply of carpet designs. I also added some Lake Las Vegas carpets.
I had an interesting phone call yesterday that shows what a tremendous error in judgement I made in putting these galleries up in the first place. I check my voicemail and find a message from a guy named Steve who left his number and said he needed to talk to me and “You’ve got quite a website there.” I knew instinctively that it had to be a request to buy carpet, but I held out hope that maybe he wanted to hire me for an executive seminar or something.
So I take the time to call the guy back. I dial the number (to my dismay, it’s some kind of carpet dealership) and ask to speak to Steve. Steve gets on the line, and I say, “Hi, this is Dave Schwartz, returning your phone call.”
He gets really defensive and starts insisting that he never called me, or that I have the wrong number.
I point out that it was definitely his voice on my voicemail, leaving his number and his name, and he gets even more defensive, completely denying that he ever called, and basically treating me like I’m a telemarketer bothering him at home. He’s on the verge of actually screaming when I thank him for wasting my time and hang up.
All that said, I’m still glad I put up the casino carpet galleries, because most people definitely get a kick out of it.
It’s hard to explain exactly why I decided to do this in the first place–I just had a vague feeling that it might be funny.
I’ve gotten a few visitors emailing me carpet pictures, which is cool–I’m going to post a “guest” gallery with them soon. Unfortunately, I had all of my emailed-in pictures in a folder which has disappeared, so if you emailed me pictures in the past, send them again, with a note indicating how you’d like to be indentified and where the photo is from.