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Realtor fat cat, had a stack of stubs

Not sure what’s worse someone with a lot to do or some whiny roast chicken lookin old people trying to file a claim for disability relief on their $88 they owe for their $28,000 rat hole

I swore next time I’d pay early and mail it in. 👍

We just paid property tax on the ' rez shelter'.


Mailed it in cuzzin'.

The savings on George Strait tickets alone make it a bargain.

I like the idea of that medical jet

In case a jellyfish sting my nuts in Virgin Islands

My old man had to take the med jet from here to Billings when he had a heart attack.



It was over $10k and this was 15 years ago?

"assume" will get you in trouble a lot. AMEX does have other cards that allow you to carry a balance and you are correct, the interest is pretty outrageous. But the facts are just about everyone that carries a platinum (or in reality all AMEX cards), it is not used as a CC (BTW, AMEX charges more to vendors than either Visa or MC), Lots of folks here including myself have described some of the benefits that are part of the AMEX platinum card, but I will leave you with these two anecdotes:

A good friend of mine and his son were hunting Cape Buffalo in Zim a few years ago, when the unthinkable happened, kid made a poor shot, the buff charged, blew riight by the PH and dead on it's feet slammed into the kid, breaking multiple ribs, collapsed lung and internal bleeding. So what happened? one call on Sat Phone to AMEX and MEDJET was there, hauled him off to Johannesburg, got him stabilized then back to the US , all via air ambulance. The cost? zero.

My Father in Law almost died a couple of years ago (do a search here and you can read the details) from a tick bite up at our place in PA. He spent over a month at the Penn State Medical Center , but we eventually had to send him home to Pensacola to a rehab center. The bill for an air ambulance was about 15K and who paid for it? his AMEX Platinum did.

Lastly, in the forty years me and my wife had one (and for many years my three kids), balance carried was zero. So there's a lesson there about assuming...

I notice more and more businesses are charging 3.3 when using a card.

I got hit by a Portuguese man o' war in the Carib once...

Holy hell... I'd take a barbed wire whipping over that happening again.

A fellow who hunts with me here needed one from northern MN to Mpls. Just over 30k. Recently.

Osky

I'll use cash if I have to, but I'd much rather use the American Airlines platinum card every chance I get. I'm an air miles hound, sitting on 360K air miles and zero plans to go anywhere right now because of the hypocrisy with the airports and airlines.

But No, I wouldn't pay 3% or whatever else someone wants to charge to use it. I'd just give them the cash.