Joker Energy

This word came not from me, this came from my friend and student Jill, yes the same Jill who encouraged me to start blogging in the first place. Joker Energy. When dit the word come to surface. It was last monday as I recall correctly. I was telling Jill about a guy who wanted to hire me for his water filter firm, but somehow it dit not feel right. In his story a link was missing like the name he used on the phone and the name he used to contact me. 2 different names of companies for 1 simular object to sell. So decided not to go to meet him. But not finding anything on the firm and his excistance dit not make me sad or angry or so, somehow it gave me a smile to see this. I felt happy about deciding not to go to the interview, intuition worked.

After I told Jill this, I received an interesting call from A Star vacation in Miami. I had won a cruise to the Bahama's jippie :) ! At least that was what they told me, then I got a full discription of where I would stay, first in Orlando at the Radison Hotel for 6 nights, then Daytona Beach for 3 nights, after that embark in the Keys on the Royal Majestic Princess to go for 2 days to Nassau in the Bahama's. The guy asked me, are you happy about this and I said yeah of course just wondering where the catch is in this one cause I must be dreaming. Jill whom I was talking to at the same time on msn almost got a fit from laughing. Where is the catch I asked this nice guy, he said there is not catch we are giving this to you and your family! Jippie I thought and was wondering what would follow.

Joker energy took over here when I was getting another guy on the phone who asked me with his biggest smile for my creditcard number and code. And I said why do you need that? You are giving me this vacaction so why should I give it to you? He said oh this is just for some taxes on airport and embarking from the ship. I said am I not the one to pay that at the airport and harbour? He said yes, this is just in case. Well I went along with his joker ride and gave him a non exicisting creditcard number. You never guess what happend? Try again? Yes ? Indeed he said, card is not valid are you sure this is the right number? Of course I said, is a new card so it should work. They putted me on hold and someone else came on the phone. (You can imagine right now that Jill was not in a fit anymore but fell of her chair from laughing). The new guy asked me for the number again which I gave, said hold on for a second, came back and said, not valid, this is strange ma'm are you worried about this? I asked him how much they wanted to charge me for the taxes because somehow that question was not answered in the 30 minutes that it took A Start to find out I was gowing with their on flow of scamming me. The guy said, oh it is just 998 us dollar.... (breath Jill mentioned on msn, breath Isabel). Before I knew it I was on hold again and was put through to, another guy. Wow I thought many people for 1 creditcard to work on. This one sounded concerned for me, he offered me that I should call my bank, but I said: "have to do that in the morning we have evening here, banks are closed". He suggested to call the emergency number and I said: "that would not be polite they can see I call from Holland........" so he offered to call my bank and I said nope thanks, I have got it covered. Then I asked him, explain to me one more time how I could have won this 15 day vacation AND pay for it. Guess what I heard after that? beep beep beep beep beep, yep he hung up on me.

So joker energy gives the huge smile in going with the ride of others and instead they scam you you give the same in return. And lesson here is not to give any details on the phone. Be carefull before you know it you are robbed indeed. Go with the flow, be aware but also keep the smile. Think joker energy and laugh cause at the end they pay for the phonecall from the US to Holland for 45 minutes trying to get my creditcard number. AND that is fun right?

Love and light,

Isabel