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Old Dec 15, 2004 | 2:43 am
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Marathon Man
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come on people, think out of the box!

Ahh, easy to figure out right away!

This one makes me think of ONE thing where it can be considered less than just plain wrong, and almost way right!:

An ugly divorce!

I ain’t saying that's what it is, but come on people, if the X was a real jerk and you had a horrid break up, then this could be a good thing!

Here is the example:

Someone dear to me, let's call him George, did have such a problem. His X wife, let's call her Elaine, was a real loser. She didn't even ever know what miles were when they were together, and certainly never appreciated all the tickets he got the family when scrambling around to do business or leisure travel. This Elaine character was snobby, unforgiving, unhappy, unloving, and just plain stupid about a lot of other things that would obviously make decent reasons for the break up.

But George is a good man who simply made the wrong choices in his life for those few years these two were together. He tried and tried to make it work and when they had a child, well, he did all the work to bring that kid along (and of course, set him up with a little FF account or three as well!)

Anyway, when he finally figured out he should end it all (and found her doing the nasty with his x-best friend from school anyway) he realized that he had been the one to set up all the family airline miles accounts!

And he had the PINs and all the other info too.

Now they weren’t some wealthy or well-to-do Hollywood tabloid couple that some hot shot lawyer from Hollywood knew enough or cared enough to include some 1,500,000 Delta miles into their divorce, no, instead it was merely about alimony or some other possessions, and George gladly dealt with this.

He is done with Elaine, but man, was the woman a piece of work! To this day the whole thing haunts him and yet he does everything right when it comes to paying the bill and taking care of the kid...

But he has access to those miles. She doesn’t even care to know what they are or how to use a PC!

So he uses them.
Who will ever really know in their case?
Does the airline need to know?
Does the X need to know?
I sure would if it happened to me!

...and so should any of you divorcees out there feeling a bit burned once and a while. As long as they don’t know about it, it certainly IS right, in terms of the highest rule on earth: The ones set forth by the HEART!

I seriously doubt Elaine is reading this now. She was a Russian bride who just wanted the green card anyway! You gonna tell on me? No, you are not.
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