It feels to be home.
It feels to be home. The weekend is here... finally. I get SO many solicitation calls at home it's ridiculous. I don't have an answering machine or voicemail on my home number because of all the sales calls I get... so, naturally I'm a little leery of people calling with "special promotions". I just got this call about a special deal to Vegas. I've always wanted to go to Vegas. I'm not a big gambler, but I have a feeling Sin City and I would get along just fine despite the fact. Here's the part that made me really suspicious: you have to have a wife or girlfriend going with you (ie. couples only), you have to take a "tour" of the hotel while you're there (it was Hilton and affiliates btw), you have to have a combined household income of greater than $70K/year, and you have to promise to have wild sex in crazy places all over town (ok, I made that one up). Why do you have to be a couple to go? This immediately rules me out. Bastards. Why do you have to tour their hotel? I mean, you're freakin' staying there anyway right? Why do you have to have a combine household income of $70,000.00 per year or more? The promotion was Vegas for $98 bucks... I figure you can probably work at McDonald's as a fry boy and save up enough to cover 3 nights in Vegas for $98.00. What's with the salary requirement? Oh well, I brushed the lady off on the phone. She was polite and I am not rude to phone solicitors unless they are rude to me first. I really, really don't like them though... hehe. Vegas sure would be nice. The last girl I dated was from Vegas. She told me that e could go and she'd show me around... however, just like all the women in my life, it was a lie. ;-) It's the weekend!! Woo-hoo!
Somehow I’m figuring they’re planning on recouping more than the $98 from you in gambling if you’ve got a combined income of $70K or more. A fry cook that could cover the $98 is a less appealing guest of the hotel. Go as a couple and they might make twice as much off you. TANSTAAFL. They have all the angles covered. The house wins. The house always wins.
My stepdad was a “high roller”, back in the ‘70s, and used to get free first class airline and complementary suites in Vegas. It’s because he gambled there often. I’d assume he lost often enough that they weren’t “giving” him anything but an excuse to fly and give them money with the pretense of playing a game for it, lol.
Sales people RULE!
(except telemarketers...)
P.S. try a TeleZapper
Now the telemarketers are getting “smart.” They know everyone is bvuying these telezappers, so they have already discovered a way to go around them, ridiculous. Today a lovely woman from Melbourne called to survey me on the phone about magazines. She was nice, so I sat in my bathrobe and talked to her even though I was late for a deal tonight. If all goes well, I’ll be getting $50 for my assistance, but neither you nor I should hold our breath. Ha.
It’s a timeshare sales tactic. They get you to go as a couple so that no one has the chance to weezil out by saying, “Oh, I would definitely buy it right now, but I really do need to ask the wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend first.” Serious hard sell…
Bitch, you know I’ll meet your ass in Vegas anytime you want. Just say the word. You are so money. You don’t even know it.
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