Tonya
07-20-2004, 11:47 AM
Haha, I have to share my most recent psychotic episode. Although, I'm still a tad embarrassed, I find it pretty funny.
You see, my dad just jumped this pyramid scheme band wagon. You give these people all of your money, they invest it into high risk stocks, and you become debt free and a millionaire in 12 years. In the mean time, you recruit four families a month, and you earn an additional $300,000 a year.
So, anyways, he's been bugging the heck out of me to listen to the presentation so that I can flush all of my money down the toilet (errr, I mean become a millionaire) too. So, finally I agreed to listen. Mike was mad at me for agreeing, but I convinced him to sit through it. I told him it was only 45 minutes long, to not ask questions (so that it won't be drug on) and to just tell them that we'll think about it.
Well, so the representative that is training my dad (you don't even need a real education to take away people's money), my father, Mike, and I all sat down. Right off the bat, they started telling me to back out of my real estate deal. -Not sell my house, refinance it, give them the cash and invest that cash.
Well, to make a long story short...Mike got sooo excited. He got totally suckered into the whole scam. I calmly kept repeating myself that I was very adamant about selling my house. I politely asked over and over and over and over and over again for them to drop the subject on keeping my house and tell me how else I can save money. (They were wanting me to call my realtor right that second because we already have a pending offer.) I kept smiling sweetly at Mike and saying "Honey, we'll talk about it later." And then when people weren't looking, I was giving Mike the throat slash gesture and mouthing "SHUT UP!"
Well, after THREE AND A HALF hours later the subject hadn't changed. I had three people against me repeating and repeating themselves. I kept telling them that I fully understood what they were saying, but I was not interested in keeping this house.
Well, needless to say, I flipped out. I screamed "I don't want this @#$&* termite and rat infested house! My family and my time is more important then being a &@#$* Millionaire!" (Or something to that sort...) Then I burst into tears.
The lady freaked out and packed her stuff and left. My dad got all upset and left too.
After they left, we made a few phone calls and I proved to Mike that they were incorrect on the information they were giving us. I know my dad would never lie to me intentionally, but his brain is in some stupid haze right now. Mike felt really bad for making me so upset. He said he just got so excited about being rich that he didn't notice that I was getting disgruntled.
I thought about calling my dad and that woman and appologizing for my outburst. But maybe not. I'm still pretty miffed.
You see, my dad just jumped this pyramid scheme band wagon. You give these people all of your money, they invest it into high risk stocks, and you become debt free and a millionaire in 12 years. In the mean time, you recruit four families a month, and you earn an additional $300,000 a year.
So, anyways, he's been bugging the heck out of me to listen to the presentation so that I can flush all of my money down the toilet (errr, I mean become a millionaire) too. So, finally I agreed to listen. Mike was mad at me for agreeing, but I convinced him to sit through it. I told him it was only 45 minutes long, to not ask questions (so that it won't be drug on) and to just tell them that we'll think about it.
Well, so the representative that is training my dad (you don't even need a real education to take away people's money), my father, Mike, and I all sat down. Right off the bat, they started telling me to back out of my real estate deal. -Not sell my house, refinance it, give them the cash and invest that cash.
Well, to make a long story short...Mike got sooo excited. He got totally suckered into the whole scam. I calmly kept repeating myself that I was very adamant about selling my house. I politely asked over and over and over and over and over again for them to drop the subject on keeping my house and tell me how else I can save money. (They were wanting me to call my realtor right that second because we already have a pending offer.) I kept smiling sweetly at Mike and saying "Honey, we'll talk about it later." And then when people weren't looking, I was giving Mike the throat slash gesture and mouthing "SHUT UP!"
Well, after THREE AND A HALF hours later the subject hadn't changed. I had three people against me repeating and repeating themselves. I kept telling them that I fully understood what they were saying, but I was not interested in keeping this house.
Well, needless to say, I flipped out. I screamed "I don't want this @#$&* termite and rat infested house! My family and my time is more important then being a &@#$* Millionaire!" (Or something to that sort...) Then I burst into tears.
The lady freaked out and packed her stuff and left. My dad got all upset and left too.
After they left, we made a few phone calls and I proved to Mike that they were incorrect on the information they were giving us. I know my dad would never lie to me intentionally, but his brain is in some stupid haze right now. Mike felt really bad for making me so upset. He said he just got so excited about being rich that he didn't notice that I was getting disgruntled.
I thought about calling my dad and that woman and appologizing for my outburst. But maybe not. I'm still pretty miffed.