Well, to celebrate our first year of marriage, my wife and I had planned a vacation to Southern

California. We were going to spend some time in L.A. and then after that, go down to San Diego.

And we had a blast in L.A. spent a good amount of time there and closed it off by going to a Los Angeles

Dodgers game. Had a blast at the game. We're about to exit the stadium. But as we got to the exit, there was like

a booth set up inside the stadium, and someone was standing there, and he came up directly to

Adley and I, and he said, hey, we are actually looking for attractive couples to give a gift to.

And I just thought L.A. is so vain. Like, this is awful. There's a lot of other okay-looking people here. They deserve the gift, too. But I'll take it. Like, as an attractive guy, I will take it. And so I'm like, hey, what's the prize? And he said, it's a trip to Hawaii. I'm like, okay. It pays off. This is awesome. And I'm like, how do I get it? He's like, well, you just have to tour this resort. And I said, well, actually, it's not going to work for us. We're headed to San Diego tomorrow. And he said, oh, it's essentially on the way to San Diego. And I'm like, okay, sure. I'll sign up. If it's on the way. So he had a list with a bunch of time slots. I signed up for the next morning, And then he said, oh, and by the way, we do require a $50 deposit before that. And I was like, well, okay, sure, fine. $50 for a trip to Hawaii is fine. Should have been the first red flag. Next red flag was we left the stadium, got out of our phone, and started typing in the resort, we realized it was not essentially on

the way to San Diego. It ended up being about an hour and a half out of the way. But we're like, okay, fine, it's a trip to Hawaii. Let's go anyway. So we go, show up at this resort, go to the welcome desk. We say, hey, we're here for our quick tour of the resort. And they said, fantastic. Just have a seat and wait.

Someone will be with you soon. We wait and wait and wait. Finally, a man walks down these stairs and he goes, Mr. Mrs. Hildencamp, and we say, yes, this is us. And then he said, I'm not saying this. I'm only saying this because this is what happened. He said, my name's Roland Blunt, and you're going to be with me today?

I'm like, this because this is what happened. He said, my name's Roland Blunt, and you're going to be with me today?

I'm like, where am I?

What is this place?

And he took me to a ballroom, and I said, hey, I thought we were going on a tour.

And he said, no, we're just going to have a quick conversation.

In this ballroom, there's all sorts of salespeople meeting with couples there.

And he had us do like this personality test to show us what we like in vacations. And then he

used that for the next two hours to give us a timeshare pitch. Over and over and over and

again. I said, I'm not interested, not interested, not interested. Spent two hours there.

Then he took us on an hour-long tour where we saw every little detail of the resort. Finally got to the end of it. Wasted a whole half day on vacation. I'm like, it's fine because we're going to Hawaii because of this. And I just said, okay, how do I book my trip to Hawaii? He said, well, two days from now, you'll get a form, and if you fill out that form, saying how we did, then you will get next step. So two days later, get an email with the form, fill out the form, grade the whole experience. Then I get an email saying, okay, you have a time two weeks from now. It's a 15-minute window. You must call in this window, and then you'll be able to book your trip. So I put a reminder in my phone. Make sure I call two weeks from then.

I do just that. Call them, and they say, okay, we're so glad that you have called. We're ready to

book your trip. We just want to make sure that we're on the same page. The only flights that we book are out

of Seattle. And I'm like, you could have told me this before. So in my head, I'm trying to figure

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