July - ¿Qué pasa?

[JanetM]

Again, a little corner to share what's up this month

[faithfulservant]

i'm trying to convince my dw to take advantage of a casino promotion we received in the mail...we haven't had anything resembling a vacation since '95 or '96

3 days free hotel, 150 each in gambling "money" and 50 dollars each free food... what's not to like

... not to mention

ROAD TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the casino is about 4.5 hours from us in another state

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Do you have to sit through a timeshare promo?

[faithfulservant]

Do you have to sit through a timeshare promo?

i have no idea... it was certainly not mentioned in the offer... of course they also didn't mention your 150 free gambling credits can only be played on the non-progressive machines, which i'm told only make up 3-5 % of their total gaming inventory ... that's ok... i'll give my free "money" to my wife and i'll go find me a good video poker machine ( i hope!)

[JanetM]

I worked through the last 3 strikes at my hospital, and... it was exhausting. Now there's a 5-day strike coming up next week... I'm gonna sleep through this one, I think.

[faithfulservant]

i'm trying to convince my dw to take advantage of a casino promotion we received in the mail...we haven't had anything resembling a vacation since '95 or '96

3 days free hotel, 150 each in gambling "money" and 50 dollars each free food... what's not to like

... not to mention

ROAD TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the casino is about 4.5 hours from us in another state

update... mission was a failure... i even enticed her saying we could take a small detour on the way home and go visit where her parents and grandmother are buried... she's been wanting to do that for a while... thought that would be the clincher but it did not override the reasons for her declining the offer, which include we are too crippled and not stable enough to be able to do all the walking involved... i asked her how she knows that to be the case , that i certainly would be willing to take the risk for which she has fears but the answer is still nope, not gonna happen

i haz a sad

[faithfulservant]

my new july endeavor is to clear a path and dig out my baseball card collection... the time has come to let it go and reap the rewards of my labors... i'm selling to a friend that has started a collectable business in his golden years so hopefully he'll give me a break on the selling prices... if so, i could turn a nice piece of change (that i was going to use to support the road trip and casino endeavor).... oh well, it will provide spending money or pay some bills... maybe save it for a closer, less extended road trip and casino stay

[Riverboat]

Do you have to sit through a timeshare promo?

If you know ahead of time, avoid it.

This is a cautionary tale for anyone considering a coupon offer at a time-share resort. After your night in a king-size bed and a sumptuous breakfast, you’ll be dealing with a series of used-car salesman with luxury accommodations. After a half-hour of politely listening to the pitch (“After an initial $3000 fee, you get 30-60% discounts . . . “), your mind will begin to wander (“. . . on thousands of hotels!”).

To keep from losing my mind, I begin to take notes, a strategy I learned during years of teacher inservice. Of course, back then I used those notes to write newspaper columns to pillory the inservicers. For now, Time-Share Man sees I’m writing down stuff and turns his attention to my wife. Poor thing. She never spent time in a faculty meeting so she never internalized the Golden Rule of Teacher Meetings: “Never ask questions. It only prolongs the agony, and your only reward will be another shovelful of s**t.”

After an hour, I want to ask if we can just pay for the breakfast and call it a day. If only it were that simple. You see, we are staying in an EXCLUSIVE ALL-INCLUSIVE HOTEL. Comes with a flush toilet, towels and a bathroom with a shower head that doesn’t spray all over the place and soak the roll of toilet paper.
After TWO hours, I’ve got two questions:
1. What part of NO are you confused with?
2. How soon until wheels-up at the airport?

What kind of school do time-share promoters attend that thinks badgering an open-minded → skeptical → hostile audience is an acceptable strategy? So help me, we sat for THREE hours. Well, actually I had stood up for one minute of the three hours during a spiel of one of the FIVE arm-twisters who point-blank told me to sit down. He also reminded me after I refused to play his game anymore that unless I began answering questions that our coupon would be cancelled. A gain, how long until wheels-up to escape this temporal hell?

Evidently, their only option at some point is to ruin the entire vacation for the wouldn’t-be clients. Mission accomplished. At this point, I wish I had never come. Now I understand why AM radio runs so many ads about canceling time-share contracts.