The Timeshare Beat: Jerry Sikes; With Regard to Why

There are times when a question comes from a role of devil's advocacy designed to challenge your opinion and at other times they are asked just to make you think.

• Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?

• Who is going to occupy the units for the four other days if
everyone wants to take a three-day weekend trip?

• Why is it that when you fail to succeed you are a failure but
when you succeed at failing you are still a failure?

• Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor,
and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

One of the basic laws of economics is the Gresham’s Law which suggests that “bad money drives out good” Simply stated this law holds that when the authority assigns the same nominal value to two or more forms of circulatory mediums of exchange whose intrinsic values differ, payment will always, as far as possible, be made in that medium of which the cost of production is least.

• Why is it necessary to diminish the value of weeks
in order to enhance the value of points?

• Why is the #2 pencil still #2 if it is the most popular?

• Why do you have to use dollars to purchase points
if points are a more flexible form of currency?

• Why is it that I can use my dollars at any car rental
but my RCI points are only good at AVIS?

Sometimes there are statements made as if they were fact when everyone knows that at best they are half-truths. RCI and Ragatz Associates just sent out a new study about timesharing which stated that plans featuring points was the most popular form timesharing in 2002. Such statements always stimulate many why questions.

• Why aren’t there ever any guilty bystanders?

• Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

• Why would RCI state points were more popular
when 61.2% of the buyers purchased weeks?

• If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,
why are there locks on the doors?

• Why do people tell you when they are speechless?

Prior to beginning the war in Iraq the Bush administration indicated that they were committed to the action because Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction and that they had proof. On the basis of this ‘proof’ the administration was able to get allies such as Tony Blair to lead his government into the conflict.

• Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?

• Why did President Bush state:
‘I take personal responsibility for every accusation I make,
so absolutely I am blaming the CIA for giving me bogus information.’

• Why is it that the man who invests all your money is called a broker?

• Why do we use the word politics to describe our governmental process
when in Latin ‘Poli’ means ‘many’ and ‘Tics’ means “bloodsucking creatures’?

Quite often when anticipating moving to a new location people begin to shop around for a great place to live. They are often looking for a well-kept, safe neighborhood with easy access to good schools, shopping, dining and entertainment. In many instances these features are to be found in communities controlled by Owner Associations that have covenants, conditions and restrictions, which run with the land. Upon purchase of a home within such communities they accept those CC&R’s and agree to abide by them.

• Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?

• Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game,"
when we are already there?

• Why do homeowners plant trees in common areas when
the CC&R’s they accepted prohibit it?

• Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address,
you turn down the volume on the radio?

Final thought

A joke is a joke and sometimes a really good one makes you laugh until you cry. Were you aware that Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it or that bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks? I have six locks on my door, all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three of them.