I’ll say this much: Las Vegas is a friendly place. Which is why I’m here.

But I have met one really unfriendly person here. She tried to boot me from a restaurant.

I can explain.

Last night I was practicing my flirty walk in and around the casino resort I’m staying at. Making eye contact with guys is getting (a little) easier. I am noting that the guys who look back at me seem, well, startled. Just like in the city. So for the next few hundred steps, I observe the women around me.

Like me, they have the ripped-jeans, low-cut t-shirt thing going on. They’re clutching clutches. But they look mad. I look at them and smile, like, ‘hey we’re in Vegas and this place is great, right?’

Blank hostile stares, for the most part. But I digress.

The woman who had no smiles for me was not walking around. She was at work. To be specific, in a restaurant. During a private party clam-bake spring-break thingy.

In my defense, as I walked up to the restaurant off the breezy resort sidewalk, there was no indication that this clam-bake was in fact private. And the bar had a bunch of guys sitting at it with one seat open. My dating coach would be, like, GO.

So I did. I’m looking around, smiling, ordering a margarita. The bartender ignores my credit card. And then a plate of crawfish and sausages is put down in front of me.

“Oh, I didn’t order this!”

Woman-who-is-about-to-hate-me looks confused.

“This is for people attending this party. Were you invited?”

“oh, um …no?”

“You can’t be here.”

“But I just ordered my drink?!”

Next comes a string of instructions involving paying at the other side of the restaurant and moving to the second floor of another restaurant nearby.

“um…sure …”

And here’s where it gets interesting. The millennial glued to his phone next to me the whole time, starts to guffaw.

Our hater-lady marches off with her precious crawfish plate  (CLIENTS ONLY). I turn to this guy. Feeling flustered and dumb, I said the only thing I could think of.

“Guess I really blew that one.”

He smiles.

And Addie’s first meet-a-guy adventure: Vegas edition begins.