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Old Jul 14, 2018, 2:03 pm
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big V
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Originally Posted by fezzington
I finally have one I can share...

I'm at the grocery store at home this morning after coming in from a redeye. I needed a few things so I went straight there from the airport, in uniform. At the express checkout lines, a guy cuts in front of me, flashes a MP card and says "I'm a United 1K, surely you don't mind if I go in front of you, right?"

Yes. Yes I do mind.
Wait, he wasn't kidding?? Tell me he ended up saying, "Just kidding, I was pulling a DYKWIA" and laughed. For someone to think that that whole elite thing appliesa in a grocery store is beyond the pale.
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