Time Share!

My husband and I went to this trade show with our kids. I filled out every entry form you could find to win things. I get a call later that week about how I have won a few things, they had left the message on our answer machine. I understood it was a sales call of some sort, I was interested in the free gifts, but not enough to return the phone call. A couple days later they had called again, I was working my dispatch job and answered the phone. She was a real nice girl, telling me about this $2000 online shopping spree that I have won, where you can buy anything online that you can buy at a normal department store except food. Then they are going to give me a $50 gas card and $50 food card. She also goes on to tell me that she understands people are not buying timeshare right now but the reason they want me to go is to get "Word Of Mouth" out about their about the resort.

LOL Ya I will get the word of mouth out there alright! I go up there and yes the resort was beautiful. The guy who talked to us was very friendly until we told him that we don't make impulse decisions and although it all sounds like a great deal we would have to research it some more. HOWEVER if you didn't sign right up, right then all the discounts they showed you would not be valid after you walked out the door. At 2:30 and after the 90 minutes were up, I told our host that we needed to leave by 3pm that our daughter had a birthday party she needed to get to. I thought he was understanding because he brought us right up stairs to talk about the price. WELL, he goes on and on about the cost of the timeshare and ya it sounded great. But this fella wouldn't shut up, I had to repeat myself 3 times that we had to go. He really thought he had us in the bag for a sale. Its now 3pm we sign this paper saying we can't go back up for 2 years for another tour. FINE BY ME!!

Now we must check out, we get our gifts. I look though them while we are rushing back home to get our daughter. The gas card was not a card, it was a form you needed to either fill out and mail or fill out on their website. Then you need to print out these vouchers, save your gas receipt and send them in. They, in time will mail you a check of some sort for the gas. I was a bit annoyed by this, I felt that was a bit misleading seeing out the woman who set us up said it was a gas card. They give you this voucher because they know 90% of the people who get it are not going to bother with it.

Once we get our daughter to the party, pick our our son and finally get something to eat we go home. I get right online to see what goodies were waiting for us to buy with the $2000. YA they think I am a big time fool with this one. It is a bunch of SHIT, things that you wouldn't find in a department store and not only that but you had to pay shipping for each item. I am glad for the company I work for because I understand shipping costs now better then ever. They were charging $14 to ship one very small item and each item was around $7-$14 alone for shipping. I am not stupid, I know it would not cost that much to ship items to someone. Not only that but you couldn't find any regular department store items on this site. So the short of it is they lied to me. They worked it up to be something that it is not! Working with customer service, being a consumer, I understand these are very bad practices for any business.

Lastly, I looked up some timeshare at that same lodge. As I said it was beautiful, http://www.northstarinn.com/ , as you can see for yourself. Anyway, the timeshare that he offered us at first was around 17,000, then he came back with 9,000 and when he still didn't have us he ended with $5000. What I found online was the same resort for $2900 and anual maintence fees of around $500. That is not bad for a place that is only an hour and thirty minutes for our house and we would def. go and stay for a week. I have 4 snowboarders at home and this was sooooo close to Killington. I see now why all discounts are taken away after you leave, because once you get home and go on the internet you can find it cheaper then what they themselves are selling it for.

Work Zones!

I have a very long travel each day for work. It is about 40 miles one way, with that said I travel back roads and highways to get there. There is this one highway where there is some work being done on it. The speed limit in a work zone in NYS is 45 miles per hour. Now I understand the whole mad rush to get to work on time and ya maybe for some it is just a mad rush to get to work (they just love their job oh so much). But what I don't understand is why does it seem that every morning I am the only one doing that 45 miles per hour?

No one sets off on their day and thinks "I am going to speed though that work zone and get into an accident". I am sure that thought doesn't cross anyone's minds. However, I firmly stand by "My daddy works here" signs! Because its true they are peoples fathers, brothers, husbands, mothers, sisters, wife's and friends. I would had for someone to happy to someone in my family or a friend just because someone else was in a rush!

I ask that the next time you drive though a work zone you SLOW THE HELL down!!! How much time are you really saving by speeding though? And is the extra min to 10 minutes worth it to you and to a life??? I would sure as hell hope not.

Have the respect you should for others, slow down!

You really think so??

I was watching the news before bed the other night. I was rather shocked about the story that was on, African American people are worried about their votes counting. Really? I know some really f-ed up things can happen, maybe a miscount. But come on now!!! I just can't get over the fact that this is just a bunch of CRAP!!

How many times have you seen in a work place that someone has sued their job due to racism? How many times has that loss of a job been due to that? I know of two cases where someone has sued for that and it has totally not been the case. Its sad to say but they were both rather lazy, and both been at their jobs for around 10 years. So come on all of a sudden your employer decided " Well, today I feel like being a racist!"

I had a conversation the other day with a friend of mine and it is the people who toss down that racist card that help to continue that viscous cycle. I am not saying that there are not racists, nor am I saying that racism doesn't exist in the work place. BUT PLEASE If you know you were fired due to the fact that you just don't do your job anymore then leave with your pride in tact.

Goes back to this ballot issue, I can't fathom that a majority of votes will not count. That if Obama loses the race a lot of people are saying it will be due to that. No what it will be due to is the majority of the people don't want a "New World Order" . Do a google search about that, what does that statement really mean? Are the Obama supporters getting their losing speach ready ahead of time? Is it because they don't have faith in him becoming the next President?

I am sure this will get people going. Understand this is what I have seen in my travels. I do understand that some people are very backwards and very racist. I am not blind, I guess what I can't understand is how can the few that are help to stop history being made.