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My Near Miss With a Timeshare Scam
All because of an innocent outing to a rodeo.
My lovely spouse and I recently went to the Tampa Rodeo, where we were immediately swarmed by gnats like it was the 8th day of the apocalypse. We made things worse by buying cinnamon scented bug spray from a vendor who said, “It’s totally safe to use on humans.”
Ten minutes later, you’d think I’d been exposed to radiation:
Just as we arrived at the rodeo, we noticed a giant barrel stuffed with thousands of little paper slips. It was parked conveniently next to a pen full of bulls who looked like they’d just been told the rodeo was out of beer.
Laura lit up and said, “Ooh! Look! You can win 100 lottery tickets. Let’s put our name in and see what happens. It’s free, right?”
“Babe,” I said, waving my arms, swatting at the hordes of gnats, “Can we just find some real bug spray? I’m dying here.”
She was already halfway to the barrel. “C’mon! There are so many prizes!”
I grumbled to myself that first prize was getting trampled by a bull named Tax Evasion. Second prize was 100 scratch-offs and a…
