It was a saturday morning and life was slow, boring, and dripping with 3 day old Tom and Jerry’s rocky road ice cream.

“Uhhhhhhhh,” moaned Gerald as he reached for the remote he had just apparently sat on and broke. Yes, he is that fat. He frowned and forced himself to do what he promised not to do for the rest of his life…get up to turn on the TV.

The TV stalled, he started to sob. Then the TV came to life and he plopped himself onto his beloved friend “Mr. Couch.” One of those paid programing commercials came on and Gerald just decided to give up and sit there watching something that was more boring than an old lady giving her small tree fertilizer. The man hosting the commercial shouted with an alarming voice,

“Do YOU want a free iPod?” he forcefully questioned. Gerald nodded to himself and muttered something incomprehensible.

“ Well then, all you have to do is come to a 30 minute time share meeting in Redondo Beach!” Gerald widened his eyes in amazement and then started to have doubts.

“ I know what your thinking, to good to be true huh? Well have no doubts because this is no scam, even look what this guy said.” Some random person appeared on the screen and said, “ I love these guys, they gave me a free iPod.” At that point gerald gave in. He wrote down the address and time on the screen and went to bed waiting impatiently for the next day to come. 

He woke up to the TV which he had accidentally left on all night. He stretched slowly and looked at his watch that he didn’t remember wearing and gasped. It was 4:34 PM and the meeting was at 5 o’clock. He rushed to his car, put his car into gear and sped off. Twenty minutes later he arrived at Redondo Beach and looked for the address he had written down. His heart sank, he had forgot it at the house. He couldn’t go back, he was already too far. His only option was to ask random people for directions!

“Hey, do you know where the time share meeting is?” he asked.

The nice looking stranger smiled and said, “Sure, its right over there. He pointed in the direction of a huge building and squinted his eyes at the blazing sun.