No Double Dipping . . .
Today being Friday, it was Wal-Mart and lunch day, so I headed out about 11:30. Just as I was ready to leave, Todd, our GGS service guy, showed up to top us off with diesel, and change the oil. He had just finished setting up the new gate guards at the frack site right up the road, so on my way out I stopped by to introduce myself and see if they needed anything from town.
Turn out to be two ladies in a small camper at the new gate. One of them had already gone into Carthage so they were OK. While I was there I got the GPS coords so we can give them to the lost trucks that show up at our gate.
Today was a chicken day, so I stopped off at the Chicken Express to pick up lunch. And as I was waiting for my food, I wondered about something.
Why don’t they offer a Combo meal?
This place has great chicken, great catfish fillets, and great sides (Love their Fried Okra). And as far as the chicken goes, they’ve got Chicken Tenders (What Jan likes), Fried Chicken, Chicken Livers, and Chicken Gizzards.
From a marketing standpoint though, why don’t they offer a meal with two Chicken Tenders, one Catfish Fillet, and a side? Nothing else to change, just space on the menu. But when I ask the cashier about it, she just looked at me like I was crazy to want both chicken and fish in the same little yellow box together, and said very emphatically, “We don’t do that.”
Well, Geez, it wasn’t like I wanted them to interbreed or something.
I was just wondering. But then that sometimes gets me in trouble.
So after my abortive attempt last week to purchase a Ready, Camp, Go card to augment our Thousand Trail parks during our East Coast trip next year, my next thought was to get a Northeast Zone pass. The regular price was $645, but until Oct. 9th it was $100 off, at $545. This was almost twice as much as the Platinum level RCG card at $299, but it would still be worth it.
And if you bought the Zone pass for two years, you could get payments. Since you’re allowed to change zones one time, I could use the Pass in the Northeast next year and then switch to another Zone the following year. Win-Win.
I had heard from several people that you could do this even if you were already a TT member. I even had the phone number of a lady in TT Member Services to refer them to in case there was a problem. So, credit card in hand, I called and explained what I wanted to do.
Problem.
The young lady I talked to, ‘Anna’ (if that is her real name, might be ‘Peggy’ for all I know), immediately said, “I’m sorry, you can’t do that. You can only have one TT membership at a time. So if you buy a Zone Pass it will cancel your regular TT membership.”
‘Aha’.
Ready for this eventuality, I brandished the name of my TT Member Services contact like showing a cross to a vampire.
‘Anna’ said, “Oh, I know her. I’ll give her a call. Hold on for a minute.” When she came back, ‘Anna’ said, “She’s on another call. Let me call you back after I talk to her.”
And when ‘Anna’ called me back, she said, “I just talked with my friend, and she also said you can’t do that, and she never told anyone you could.”
At this point, the vampire took my cross, hit me over the head with it, and sank his fangs into my neck. Just my luck, probably a Jewish vampire.
Then ‘Anna’ said, “She did say that you could get a Zone Pass as a TT member if you have an Elite or Elite Connections membership.”
Ok, this is just stupid, First the RCG card, and now the Zone Pass, are restricted to TT Elite members. But if have an Elite membership, you don’t NEED an RCG or Zone Pass. You already have all the parks that the two cards would give you.
When I ask ‘Anna’ why an Elite member would want a Zone Pass, she couldn’t explain it. Just like the young lady at the RCG office the other day, no one seems to know why. It just is.
But what’s even funnier about this, is that from Thousand Trails standpoint, they just lost between $300 and $1000 from me. I’m not going to upgrade to an Elite membership, at least not at the prices I’ve been quoted. So they’re not going to make money from me on that.
But by restricting the RCG and Zone Passes to Elite members, they’re also losing out on as much another $1000 from me, too.
But then this is Thousand Trails we’re talking about.
When I got back, Jan said that Todd told her that the husband of one of the two new gate guards was working another 12 hr. gate.
Hey, gates are in short supply. Double-dipping shouldn’t be allowed. LOL.
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Thought for the Day:
“Trust in GOD, but row away from the rocks.” – Old Jewish proverb
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