I've told the story elsewhere about how my DW was suspisious about the whole elite status thing, until I got her upgraded on several TATLs using SWUs. But there are still some lingering doubts.

Anyway, last Sunday we took my oldest daughter (who is AA GLD) to LGA for her flight back to CLT to return to college.

The airport wasn't as bad as I expected for the Sunday after Thanksgiving, but the economy check-in line was rather long. My daugher walked right up to the 1st Class check-in, checked her bag for free, got her BP, which included was a sticker upgrade to F. After our goodbyes she walked down the elite screening line ahead of maybe 200 people waiting in the groping regular line.

My DW looked at me and had an ah-ha moment and said: "This obsession of yours really is about our family getting through the airports without a huge hassle, isn't it?"^