We are staying at a luxurious resort in Mexico for two weeks, beneficiaries of my Aunt Ruth’s impatience and concern that her ice cream was going to melt. It may sound strange, but that’s really how this came about.
About 8 years ago, Ruth, Ken, cousins Ian and Rita went to Mega from the Playa Royale condo to do a big grocery shopping. The drill is to take a taxi there and back, the cab driver loads all the groceries into the trunk at the grocery store, unloads them at the condo, and using a luggage rack they get scooted upstairs. Typically this works fine. But on the day in question there was a huge lineup of people waiting for taxis when they came out of the grocery store. Clearly everyone finished shopping at the same time and there was going to be a long wait.
Well, this wasn’t acceptable as Ruth had ice cream that was going to melt, and she always readily admitted she was not in the least bit patient. So off she went to find an alternative. The alternative turned out to be a young man whose task was to get people to come to the resort Vidanta and listen to their sales pitch. He offered to drive the four of them to the condo, with their groceries, if they all agreed to come to a sales pitch to hear about the benefits of becoming members at Vidanta.
Hearing Ruth tell this story was quite funny, as this young man’s car was in no way up to carrying four passengers and all their groceries, scraping its way over every speed bump between the Mega and Playa Royale, of which there are many, but it got them back with somewhat melted ice cream, and a commitment to show up at a future date.
Ruth, Ken, Ian and Rita kept that commitment, after some research by Ken into Vidanta and its holdings to ensure it was a legitimate concern. And off they went to attend the talk and ultimately decided it was a good investment. Unfortunately they never actually were able to take advantage of it, as the year they were supposed to stay here was the year Uncle Ken was hospitalized in Mexico and it was going to be too inconvenient for them to be this far from the hospital.
So we are now finally using that reservation from 5 years ago, and benefiting from Ruth’s impatience and melting ice cream.
Wandering with Wendy 