...with the same fellow as yesterday. The conversation went something like this:

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"So, about that free ticket for your wife. What did you say it cost?"
"25,000 miles."
"Did you do it all with credit card miles?"
"Pretty much."
"How long did it take to get that many miles?"
"Oh, I don't know. Probably a year. Maybe longer."

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"You know what I did last month?"
"What?"
"I logged onto the AA website. They had a credit card offer, so I applied. Two weeks later they dumped 25,000 miles into my account."
"Hmmm"

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"They look kind of cute sitting there next to the 47,000 miles I got on USAir over the weekend."
"Hmmmm."

"Should have the 40,000 more in my British Airways account, as soon as the cards clear."

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And then he said, " ".

And then he said, " "

And then he said, " "

And then I said, "Well, gotta go. See ya later." So I left before it got ugly.

To quote Bugs Bunny, "Ain't I a stinker?"