Hey. I know this is weird, but this is the future you, and I just got in a time-machine. I’m contacting you from 6 months in the future because I’m (we’re) in a bit of a bind…
So our friends John & Sally are going to have to cancel their holiday weekend trip in exactly 6 months due to a family emergency. They’ve got a two bedroom penthouse unit at an all-inclusive resort, and the whale sharks are migrating. They’re going to call and tell you (us) that if you (we) want to go – all you have to do is buy the flights.
Unfortunately I (future you) have been trying to find decent flights for the past two days, and I can’t find ANYTHING for less than $1200 each. (If it weren’t for that damn A/C going out last month, we’d have room in the budget to fly us and the kids out, but $4800 is just too much.)
In a panic, I called that Just Get Out Of Town guy – Joel. He said he’s not a travel agent and it’s too late for him to find anything better, BUT… All we have to do is cash in that emergency stash of 100,000 frequent flyer points he showed us how to get 6 months ago. Then, instead of $4800 – we could fly there for a couple hundred bucks.
Needless to say, I (we) had to tell John & Sally that we couldn’t make it. They then called the F^@#ing Smiths – who are now plastering pictures of themselves swimming with whale sharks all over f^@#ing Facebook.
Damn Smiths…
Do our family a favor, and do the following two things right now:
1) Print out this free report from Joel and try it out. (Trust me – it’s not nearly as much trouble as the trouble I (we) are going through right now scrambling for an affordable flight (to no avail).
2) Upgrade to Joel’s premium service. The dude is wicked-smart (like “writing books for Google” smart). He’s going to post an amazing mistake fare tomorrow and we could go on BOTH trips for less than the cost of what we normally spend on one vacation. But if you don’t upgrade your subscription, it will sell out before you get it.
No time to talk. I’ve got to get back to the future. (READ THAT REPORT so my future involves whale sharks and umbrella drinks, instead of vicariously living through the Smiths’ Facebook pics.)
Oh yeah. One other thing:
Call the A/C repair guy. Not having A/C for two weeks this summer was a bitch, and the guy who replaced it for $7000 said if I (we) had re-charged the freon for $250, it wouldn’t have broken down (and we’d be the ones swimming with whale sharks).
Sincerely,
Future you