They then understood that I didn't have any work for them. Finally I told them that I was just visiting from San Francisco. His colleagues gathered around me smiling and speaking too rapidly in Spanish for me to understand. He yelled out 'trabajo' to his friends, thinking that I was offering work. When I told him he had difficult work, he misunderstood what I was saying. He said 10 hours a day, seven days a week. In Spanish, I asked the man who handed me a card how long he had to stand out there. I passed by a group of people speaking Spanish in the street while they were handing out cards advertising 'escorts.' Each card featured a different young woman. I instantly became the most popular attraction on the Las Vegas Strip.