I don't get any oneline-booking bonus for my flights - I prefer the personal service of my 'angels' at LH's downtown office in Zurich (and I don't want this office being closed).

I have never been bumped, never been walked, never gone on a mileage run or never asked for an elite comp in an airline or hotel elite program (oops, except for one hotel program last year).

And once came very very close to joining the Mile High Club (heh, heh). I understand all its smiling members are very elite and very nice.

MisterNice

Once I've flown from Hamburg to Singapore without getting any miles - because I simply had forgotten about the fact that I had an SAS card.

In 1998 a friend and I had to drive to upstate Maine from Vernon, New York via Maryland b/c we forgot the tickets to the last show of the tour.

I haven't been on an airplane in two-and-a-half weeks. The withdrawl agony is intense and I must resist daily the impulse to book one of those cheap JFK-HKG runs on CX. Already have a transPacific booked in each of January and February, can I hold out against March!?

I have never flown Southwest.

I have never been to a Taco Bell or Jack in the Box or Pappa John's Pizza place.

Or the famous Donut chain in Canada Tim Horton's.

I have never drank newself's Crown Royal. Or most hard liquor fearing I would get sick. (remembering one horrible incident at PIP I)

I have never been to Latin America (except Cancun and a horrible weekend in Tijauana.)

And I have never done drugs (one thing I am very very proud of! )

Wow ... this game is much more difficult this year ... I think I did most everything this past year ... thanks to all you bad influences.

I do have a few though:

Never memorized my hotel frequent stayer account numbers.

Never finished a Now 'N' Zen cookie (UA vegetarian-meal people will understand this).

Never resisted taking a bite of a Now 'N' Zen cookie because I always think they can't possibly be as bad as I remember them. (They are.)

Never paid for alcohol on an airplane.

Haven't checked a bag in at least 10 years.

Never ask for airline miles with a car rental.

Never asked for a paper ticket without being told over and over by most of the CTO ladies that e-tix are much better.

Never ate at that steak place many here like (can't think of the name), never ate at Krispy Kreme, never had a Red Bull, never smoked a cigar, never had a Starbucks coffee/latte/etc.

And I think I'll be able to repeat that last graph every year for at least the next 20.

I left my airline ticket and passport in the desk of my hotel room in a small town about 30 miles from Munich. I took a train to Munich and didn't even realize they were missing until I was paged at the train station in Munich with a message from the hotel that they had found them.

Though I'm an obsessively loyal UA freak, I've begun to, like AnnaS, opt for non-stop flights over convoluted UA connections.

So, that's meant a number of AA flights this year that I, gulp--here's the sin--haven't even bothered to have my AAdvantage number registered for. And I have an AAdvantage number. Just to lazy to have them add it into my record.

I never flew on a paid airline ticket until I was 19, but I logged almost 1.2 million non-rev miles before then.

Lethiole, The name of that steak place many like here is Ruth's Chris.

They do have fish and other dishes.

But Krispy Kreame, it's awesome.

I did have my first Red Bull in Switzerland waiting for a train. It's not bad.

I prefer it straight, not mixed with anything.

I didn't go for AA's "20 Partners" promo this past summer, even though I picked up close to ten through normal activities.

My wife and I once checked out of a hotel and got on a reserved seat train from the Hague to Paris with all of our luggage and only discovered that we had left a day early when the couple who had seat reservation for OUR train seats showed up in Brussels to claim them. We got off the train and caught a train back to the Hague and talked the hotel there into letting us check back in to finish our prepaid stay there.

Sort of backwards to the rules as it was something I did.

Showed up at the airport for an international flight with my girlfriends passport instead of mine.

A couple of years ago I fell asleep on a train I thought was going from AMS to Central Station..woke up in BRU with an angry conductor yelling at me in French!

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MRKEY