I got that offer as well but don't know what 60,000 HHonors points does for me.

Almost all of my posts are conversational ...

My first car was 14 years old ...

I'm about to head off to the Hyatt Place - won't have much "choice" on my diamond amenity given my desire for Hyatt points ...

I have Purell wipes in my supplies for Hyatt Place now ...

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I'm trying to pick up the gf at jersey gardens. Its a zoo here, I'm glad I dropped her off early

Yes, that's pretty much it. Daughter wants brand new luxury sports car, but only has $2,000 to spend, and Mom and Dad are willing to kick in about $10-11,000 to "help" her buy the car.

We went out to run errands and along the way were both talking about how obnoxious this whole situation sounds. And it's not like Mom and Dad were driving anything fancy. Mom is a flight attendant for DL and they met us driving a black mid-level trim Mazda 3 that was in need of a wash and had a few door dings itself.

We've already knocked $1,500 off the price of the car. We were willing to sell it to these people for about $500 off the KBB value for this car in fair condition, and the car would certainly appraise as being in good condition, because there are no mechanical problems and the paint and interior are in great shape. The price we were willing to sell at is about $1800 off the KBB value for the car in good condition.

Hopefully they'll come look at it tomorrow, like they promised, and still buy it. The crazy thing is they went to their bank to arrange financing and gave their bank the VIN on this car, before they ever looked at it. Their bank even has a faxed copy of the title, and has issued a check to them payable to my partner's bank. So if they decide to back out of this deal, they're going to have to deal with canceling the loan at their bank, since it has not only been approved, but the bank has already issued a certified check for the transaction.

Yep. Years ago a client put me up in one of them. I left after one night and went through expense report Hell afterward. But my team manager backed me up and said that me staying in an $80/night Fairfield Inn for the rest of the trip was a matter of personal safety and the client had to just deal with that. They originally had me in a $55/night no tell motel. And there was a $20 deposit, refundable at check out, to get the remote control for the TV.

My parents told us that we could either get a car at 16 or four years of college at graduation from high school, our pick. They were only paying for one. And if you chose the car, you were still going to college.

I chose the college, as did my sisters. Not that there was really much choice in that matter.

At 18, a month before going off to college, I bought my first car for around $3,500. It was a good reliable thing that had fairly low mileage, manual locks and windows, and no tape deck. But, it got me where I needed to go for almost seven years, and had payments I could afford ($150/month) while I was a student. It was funny how when I got to college the car wasn't such a big deal, despite the fact I was at a fairly expensive private institution with pretty selective admissions policies. In rural Southeast Texas the nice brand new car in high school was a given, and was happening in a lot of households that didn't have incomes that could easily support that habit. I end up in college with a lot of kids who were from much wealthier families than I was and many of them were driving Mom's old station wagon, or they had a car equal to mine, or none at all.

At my current stay rate, I think I'm only a few years away from being lifetime Platinum with Marriott. Now if I can just get CO to realize that not all lifetime platinum deserving customers take high-mileage flights, I'll be all set :rolleyes:

Good afternoon, Box

Hilton already offers it, and I've had some SPG properties where it was offered. If I'm traveling for work, I usually will just pay for the Internet. More points for me, and as long as my employer says they'll reimburse it, I'd rather take the points.

Good :rolleyes:

All indications with this couple were that the income level wasn't anything special.

I'm picking up AA pilots communication with ATC
 

This is so strange. I am listening to FM 105.9 which is out of NYC and I'm picking up transmissions from AA (Geez, don't they know I want CO traffic)
and I guess EWR. This has never happened before. Any of you techno guys know why?

Likely some harmonics. Pretty interesting that you're able to pick it up.