I wish I had more than a general mistrust of these schemes; such that I, too, could produce an “anti-sales-pitch” soliloquy.
Kudos to you.
I took a Japanese date to a time share thing here they gave you a gift certificate to a local mall.
I honestly said I didn’t have any money (which was true, poor starving student) but she supposedly qualified.
We also said she didn’t speak any English and I translated for her.
The salesperson would say something, and then she and I would chat for five minutes about whatever.
It’s impossible to have high pressure sales tactics when you have someone not translating correctly.
Eventually, they gave up and we got the gift certificate, which was worth it for us poor students.
As this stage in my life, the prize would have to be in the hundreds of dollars to be worth the aggravation.
I was lucky in that I had recently had some on-the-job training on finance and real estate, so it was fresh in my mind. I doubt I could do the same today.
Awesome story. My answer to that one would be “Fuck, yes!”
I remember now that we did score a trip to San Diego from one of these things, which was cool since we got to visit my father and go to the Wild Animal Park. Not a great motel, but it did fine.
At the time, our neighbors on either side were liberals who recycled and planted their yards with native shrubs, and the people across the street had a “Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman” sign pointed at our house, so no, I wasn’t concerned what the neighbors would think.