Is there something wrong with me?

Sir,
Having read in your excellent papers a number of (sometimes lengthy) letters abhorring timeshare ticket touts in Paphos, I would like to protest in the strongest terms.

Despite having lived in Cyprus for four years and having paid numerous visits to Paphos I have not once been stopped by a timeshare tout. Waiters invite me to dine and boatmen to sail, but I have never once been offered a timeshare.

I find this deeply offensive. Do they think, just by looking at me, that I couldn’t possibly afford one? Or maybe it’s an ageist thing: welldressed young ladies with clipboards can’t believe I might live long enough to repay their attention?

Either way it deprives me of the opportunity to used my wellhoned and carefully rehearsed response of “No, thank you!’ before I stride away purposefully.

As for the idea (Sunday Mail letters, November 9) that there are actually developers providing employment by putting up and selling buildings for profit, well, that is quite ludicrous. If such a thing were possible it would clearly have spread to the rest of the world by now.
Ian Strachan,
Larnaca

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