Free food is always nice… it is probably the best tasting food on Earth no matter where it is bought. It would even be better if you find out that the food you will be eating will come from a five star restaurant.
Literally just a couple of minutes ago, Jackie received a call from a particular representative of Café Astoria, telling her that she won a buffet dinner for two in one of their hotels in Ortigas, Pasig. Being the food lover that she is, Jackie immediately contacted me through my Yahoo Messenger and we began to chat about it.
The “promo” sounded nice and they even threw in free hotel lodging in Bohol for 3 days and 2 nights, provided we decide to buy tickets to fly all the way to the location. According to her, the Astoria representative was really nice and the call lasted around 7 minutes.
Upon hearing that, I got skeptical… somebody calling you for 7 minutes just to tell you that you won free food?
While we were chatting, she was looking for some blog posts about this at the same time. She found this blog site, and I decided to read it as well. It turns out that my guts were telling me right… there is no such thing as free food (unless you are eating your mom’s cooking or someone from the office got a new credit card and says he will buy you burgers)!
They are selling timeshare and once you got there, they will simply let you eat their food, make you watch a 90-minute film about how great their facilities are (after eating their food of course, you need to have a full stomach to comprehend their movie, hence, hypnotism is complete), then perform the hardest selling spiels that you will ever experience in your entire life!
Honestly, I wanted to go there and just perform an eat-and-run act. It is not like they will have us tied on our seats, have the whole place in total lockdown, or anything similar to that. Besides, they cannot sell us anything, even if they get us eating in the palm of their hands because we simply do not have any money (talk about ironic advantage, LOL!). Besides, even if we have the money, I would rather spend it on my family so they really cannot get us into buying anything and get free food at the same time.
But then I realized, even if they sell the best food in the world, the 90-minute hardcore selling will forever be wasted, which I could just use to spend time with our kid at home.
as they say, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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