For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 08, 2025

Notice John is not saying anything. I suspect he knows that they are in a timeshare hotel and just never told Elly how he got the discounted rates.

Blair looks like bad news.

Now THAT’S what I call a creepy, patronizing smile. Don’t trust Blair for any amount of time.

Fat chance!!

“If you’re lost you can look

and you will find me,

Time after time.

If you fall, I will catch you,

I’ll be waiting,

Time after time."

Kind of gullible aren’t they? Lets hope not :)

Yep…there it is….

Time share presentation

Dentists should know better than to trust people who constantly smile that way. They’re lyin’ through their teeth…

Tony Blair? No wonder…

John should be wearing cargo shorts… Then he would complete the “middle-aged man on vacation“ profile.

This is one of those sequences, way back when, that I didn’t like at the time—-and still don’t. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but it just displeased me.

Been there! DIDEN’T DO THAT!

Eat the food and keep saying no.

I’ve gotten the time share selling spiel twice in Mexico. The first time was with my tall, beautiful blonde gf. We were offered the “free” meal. We took it, then blew off the pitch. The second time someone tried it, my gf told him to get lost. Then someone tried it when I was vacationing with my mom and my sister. My sister wanted to go for it. I told her it was a stupid idea. The meals are nothing to brag about.

The BBC network had a series on by that name. Good program, made you what to tune in ‘time, after time’ to watch it.

Just babble on while we sit here and get sloshed

Remember there is never a “free” lunch.

That toothy smile says it all. Run, do not walk, in the opposite direction.

Back in the day, I was on the hotel management side of a couple of resorts that sold timeshares. To say that the hotel management and staff detested the timeshare salespeople would be an understatement!

Talk about a bunch of smarmy conmen and grifters!!

Just say “NO!”

More like time after timeshare!

I haven’t used the word “smarmy” in a long time, but in Blair’s case, I’ll make an exception.

Many years ago, we were at the free dinner knowing the pitch was coming in the morning. A man came in and sat a few tables away and started smoking a cigar. I complained about it and then was told he was important and could do whatever he wants. So we went back to our room. At the pitch the next day, they apologized like crazy and kept offering a better deal. Nope.

Bring something home from your holiday, choose one.

A time-share or persistent tropical skin disease?

I had a fellow worker who came home from Belize with parasitic fly larvae in her scalp. That was interesting. (Flies lay eggs and the larvae burrow into the scalp where they remain until they emerge as mature flies. Delightful.)

And Dr. RFK jr (the 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services) had a colony of Sumatran Brain worms, but he’s fine now. Just fine. Yup. Just fine.

president felonius is going for his annual checkup soon. Is he going to Moskow or Pyongyang?

Unfortunately there is no cure for TDS.

Time shares can get a bad wrap. We have one in my family that is wonderful. No frills but beach front. Cheap vacation every year to get away.

We sat through one of those time share sales talks. Nothing personal but hope those folks rot in hell. Definitely went for the jugular vein. I asked if me being divorced twice and my wife being divorced once made any difference. We got the cold shoulder and left. We did get our $100 in gambling chits. FYI we have never been divorced! LOL!

Sitting in dining room, I hear the salesman talking and think of you

Caught up in circles

Confusion is nothing new

Flashback, warm nights

Almost left behind

Suitcase of memories

Time after

Sometimes you picture me

I’m walking too far ahead

You’re calling to me, I can’t hear

What you’ve said

Then you say, “lets buy"

And I fall behind

The second hand unwinds

If you get hooked you can look and you will find me

Time after time

If you fall for the pitch, I will catch you, I’ll be waiting

Time after time

If you get hooked, you can look and you will find me

Time after time

If you fall for the pitch, I will catch you, I will be waiting

Time after time

After the newness fades and darkness has

Turned to gray

Watching through windows

You’re wondering if it will be okay

Secrets stolen from deep inside (deep inside)

And the bills come in the mail

If you get hooked you can look and you will find me

Time after time

If you fall for the pitch, I will catch you, I’ll be waiting

Time after time

If you get hooked, you can look and you will find me

Time after time

If you fall for the pitch, I will catch you, I will be waiting

Time after time

Time after time

Time after time

I’ve got a suitcase of brochures that you almost left behind

Time after time

Time, time, time

But you say let’s buy, but I fall behind

Time after time after time (after time, oh)

I wouldn’t trust that smile. That’s just a bunch of teeth playing games with one’s mind!

The Pattersons get free education and free healthcare. Why shouldn’t they get free food?

A Cyndi Lauper fan

Me and the Mrs went to one of those free dinners once. After dinner they take you to a room and make the pitch for a timeshare. We listened to the pitch and when they offered the contract and a pen, I said “No,” and we left. They were really unhappy.

OH NO! The dreaded TimeShare :-( Fee’s go up every year “due to inflation” and can never be sold

Yep, whoever said it yesterday was right, looks like they are selling timeshares

Just like an STD…

No such thing as “free”.

Ack! The Blair Warlock Project begins!

He is every sleazy time share tout I’ve ever met….Honolulu…Mexico….Chang Mai…Vegas…and sadly, most recently, in Hoi An, Vietnam…sigh.

They must all go to the same school…this last doofus’ blather was, literally, word for word that we’ve gotten at least twice before…took his free hat (gave back the free tickets) and left him standing on the street….with a no doubt unheeded suggestion that he should try being honest….

…whenever they can afford to, whenever they can afford to, whenever they can afford to! O<[|;o)

The poor man’s Clutch Cargo. And at least Clutch Cargo had scruples.

Are they really that clueless? I never went to a presentation like this because my father explained them for exactly what they were.

This should be interesting. The Pattersons seem completely trusting that this is a kind gesture from the resort.

TANSTAAFL.

I’ve gone to several “free lunches” or got a free gift for attending some presentation with absolutely ZERO thought about doing or buying whatever they were selling. Just have to be strong.

Were they born yesterday? Everyone knows there is no such thing as a free lunch!

The naivete is excruciating

He’s that guy who’s related to the Casablancas from Veronica Mars who keeps popping up in the Goldbergs with different money making schemes.

A timeshare condo pitch is coming.

Our timeshare presentation included eating a free breakfast …. at the all inclusive resort we were staying at. :) plus a bottle of tequila and a Mexican blanket. Thank god we said no. We were only in our 20’s

Haha… and, if you don’t play along, the resort will add the cost of the ‘free luncheon’ to your final bill…

Please tell me that these two are not that naive!

After eating so much food there, John and Elly could fart their way back to Canada.

Next time will be expensive.

From Lynn’s Comments: This is a story that covered some painful territory. Like so many others, we fell prey to a fancy sales pitch and wound up with a timeshare we didn’t want. The salesman here was as close to the real guy as I could remember—and he did recognize himself.

Predators do not always show their teeth in the wild.

RUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNN

Danger Will Robertson, Danger!