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In jest, but seriously, once our extended family had all unpacked in our OL unit, I announced the phone policy. It was simple. Do not use the phone. Do not answer it and do not call on it. I told them I did not want to be hassled by marketing all week and I did not want to have to stand in line at express checkout to have to pay an $.80 fee, now an even $1, like last time.
I held up my cell phone and said that if anyone did not have minutes on their own cell phone they could use mine. No one touched the phone and no one asked for my cell phone.
So the little red message light flashed all day for several days.
Then, someone from OY called on my cell phone on Wednesday when I was fishing in one of the little OL ponds. That caught me off guard so I asked them to call our unit the next morning. We golfed the next morning so when we got back I decided to check all the messages. The person I was hoping to hear from had not called, but that cleared.
A little later the phone rang and I answered it, figuring it would be the person I was expecting. But, it was marketing. Patty O' Neal at extension 1111, so I decided to have some fun.
I asked her if she new the other Irish guy in marketing Paddy O' Furniture. I could tell by her hysteria that we were going to be good buds. I think I heard her soda going out through her nose. Ever done that when you laughed while drinking soda?
I told her that the people staying in the unit, the ones with the exchange, were at Disney and would not be back until late. She asked who I was and I said the Other Guy, someone they picked up on 192 the night before. I told her there were lots of us in the unit, that these nice people had taken in for the week.
Patty said that's OK, anyone can take the tour, $75 each in dead president's money, not OL Dollars, up to $150 for the unit. She said if I was married I would have to bring my wife. I told her I was gay, but not married, so what was their policy.
She said she didn't care, she and the tour people knew that RCI people do not buy, so just come and get the $150 dollars. We didn't.
Of course, all of my family were there when I answered the phone and I got a ration for violating my own phone policy.
I held up my cell phone and said that if anyone did not have minutes on their own cell phone they could use mine. No one touched the phone and no one asked for my cell phone.
So the little red message light flashed all day for several days.
Then, someone from OY called on my cell phone on Wednesday when I was fishing in one of the little OL ponds. That caught me off guard so I asked them to call our unit the next morning. We golfed the next morning so when we got back I decided to check all the messages. The person I was hoping to hear from had not called, but that cleared.
A little later the phone rang and I answered it, figuring it would be the person I was expecting. But, it was marketing. Patty O' Neal at extension 1111, so I decided to have some fun.
I asked her if she new the other Irish guy in marketing Paddy O' Furniture. I could tell by her hysteria that we were going to be good buds. I think I heard her soda going out through her nose. Ever done that when you laughed while drinking soda?
I told her that the people staying in the unit, the ones with the exchange, were at Disney and would not be back until late. She asked who I was and I said the Other Guy, someone they picked up on 192 the night before. I told her there were lots of us in the unit, that these nice people had taken in for the week.
Patty said that's OK, anyone can take the tour, $75 each in dead president's money, not OL Dollars, up to $150 for the unit. She said if I was married I would have to bring my wife. I told her I was gay, but not married, so what was their policy.
She said she didn't care, she and the tour people knew that RCI people do not buy, so just come and get the $150 dollars. We didn't.
Of course, all of my family were there when I answered the phone and I got a ration for violating my own phone policy.