Braudia's First Moment in Sleaze Town

Ladies and Gents, we are embarrassed to admit it, but we have just spent 90 minutes listening to a man tell us about Hyatt time-shares for the sole purpose of collecting 150 dollars worth in key west gift certificates.

It was painful. Totally worth it. But we will never do this again...we think.

If you recall, a few days ago, we were approached by an energetic fellow named "Paul Goodhead." We were afraid that "Paul" was a phony, and had taken 20 bucks from us because we looked happy, careless, and gullible.

However, when we showed up at the Hyatt, we realized that Paul was for real, and so was this time-share talk in exchange for 150 island bucks. We got our 20 bucks back and met another gentleman, who we'll call Frank (since we never paid attention to his real name) who proceeded to show us the Hyatt grounds.

The worst part of this whole thing is that we were the perfect clients for Paul Goodhead (the recruiter) to get commission, given our young-desperate for fun, free stuff to do look, but the absolute worst clients for "Frank" the actual time-share salesman.

And I think Frank knew this the moment he saw us.

Never in my life have I seen such a low-energy salesman. There was not an ounce of hope in his presentation. But he stoicly plowed through it, showing us the time-share spots in other locations around the country, telling us about how much financial sense it makes to have "ownership of your vacation"...

The first question he asked us: so how often do you come to Key West?

Braudia: Umm, well, we're here on our honeymoon

Frank: So you've been living in Coral Gables long? (We've been using my parents address for everything)

Braudia: Umm, well, actually, we don't have a place yet cuz we're moving to England.

Frank: thinks to himself "oh great, another 90 minutes of my life wasted" but says, "so, how often do you think you'll come down to Key West, then?"

Braudia: Ummmmm.....uummmm

yeah, you get the picture, and it only got worse.

Finally, after some silly video, we decided to come clean. Not only were we going to be living in Europe and traveling around there in a spontaneous, stress-free manner, but we didn't even own a house, much less would we care to own a vacation time-share property.

Frank: So what drew you in to this, anyway?

Braudia: the 150 dollars in vouchers.

Frank: well, I have an obligation to finish, so we can just continue then.

and he did. after 20 more minutes, we went downstairs, and the front desk girls gave us the vouchers. And now, we can go to another fancy lobster dinner- for free.