At dinner last night with a good friend.
Friend: I got a new watch. (Shows me the watch…)
Me: Nice watch.
Friend: Yeah. (Becomes slightly sheepish). Uh, yeah I cashed in…
Me: (No. Don’t. Please don’t say it.)
Friend: Some Amex points…
Me: (sweating)
Friend: …to get the watch.
Me: (tearing up…)
Friend: I feel like it’s hard to use those points for trips.
Me: (banging head against table)
Friend: And when I called for 4 tickets to Florida, they said that 200,000 points is only good for $1,600 worth of travel…
Me: (taking dinner fork and stabbing it into my leg, because that dulls the pain)
Friend: Plus there are never flights available.
Me: (bursting into tears, people now staring)
Friend: So I decided to get this watch.
Me: (a blubbering mess)
Pause
Pause
Me: Cool, it’s a great watch.
roflz
nice one
I’m kinda siding with your friend. The offer you recently posted for Amex with 50,000 points = $500 in gift cards. For doing nothing. I’ll take it.
Could those points be used for travel that is priced at more than $500? If I’m not looking to go somewhere (or I have 3/4 million United points already), who cares? $500 in free money!
But he WAS looking to go to Florida. I get the free watch, but if you are ever going to travel anywhere, then you’re better off using the points for travel.
Oh. Well, there’s that.
hilarious
By far, more creative than any other travel blogger
more seats for the rest of us?
I your humor and creative literary style that is entertaining to read, as opposed to the plethora of boring and repetitiously-cloned ad nauseum pablum that passes for miles/points blogging these days. Keep up the good work.
(looks like I missed the word “enjoy” in that first sentence)
Ditto what Chris said! You are hilarious to read! I was laughing out lout so hard!!! Keep up the great work.
Wait, does your friend know you write a travel blog?