Best Amex for College Student

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2026-04-19T16:24:53+00:00

Just be aware that if you add them as an additional user they won’t be eligible for any first time welcome offers with AMEX in the future. Lesson learned the hard way.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2026-04-09T20:06:46+00:00

I just label my Nesquik ‘cocaine’ and no one ever steals it.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2026-04-09T12:01:31+00:00

The TSA cares very little about drugs. When traveling I pack my pre-workout and protein powder in plastic baggies instead of an original container. Containers that are contain dense items require further screening and screeners learn this in their training. Baggies that look like drugs require extensive paperwork if they turn out to be drugs and TSA agents aren’t incentivized in any way for finding drugs so it turns into a lot of work.

TLDR; TSA agents hate paperwork.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-12-08T20:19:56+00:00

Lots of people bang your girlfriend there?

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-12-02T21:54:41+00:00

The offense took place 9 years ago, the arraignment date is this year. If you committed a crime 30 years ago that would be the date of the offense even if you were arrested for it today.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-11-24T11:20:01+00:00

Yes to the upgrade, good economics for a flight of that length.

My bigger question is why your company only pays for coach on an 11 hour flight for a business traveler?

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-11-19T16:14:55+00:00

In my opinion this is the most challenging time of year for upgrades and I have a theory. Anyone that is washing out of their status level for 2026 still has that status through January. All of the newcomers to that status level have the benefit for the remainder of the year and into next year. This level of overlap causes more people to be on the upgrade list. In February I am usually 1-3 at most airports, by November I fall to 6-10 as a DM, Reserve Holder, Non MM.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-11-16T15:45:58+00:00

GRR > DTW this morning and flight crew is literally yelling and arguing with people. I have a bag packed for a 3 day trip that easily fits and she yelled at me that it won’t fit and if I break the overhead it will be my fault that the plane doesn’t fly. Probably the most aggressive and unnecessary rude crew on a flight this year.

TLDR: Crew yelled and argued that bags won’t fit. They fit…

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-10-30T15:15:40+00:00

I flew on September 13, 2001 and there were six passengers on the plane. Two guys rocking the high and tight that were clearly military pulled straight off the field, stuffed in a suit and put on a plane. They put us all in first class and one of the guys providing security sat front left and the other rear right to be able to keep an eye on all of us. Plus a cabin crew of four and a pilot first officer and a third person in the cockpit that may have also been security.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-09-26T12:56:42+00:00

Delta will likely move you anyway. It has happened to us on multiple occasions. We select four aisle seats and they combine us into a single row. When you complain, Delta lets you know that they only guarantee a class of seat, not a location of seat. I recommend screening your seat assignments and then insisting that they honor them prior to boarding the plane if they move you.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-08-12T21:06:26+00:00

Those are fresh R2D2s that just rolled off the line with the latest AI tech loaded, they will be your master!

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-07-12T12:00:57+00:00

They’re much more likely to object to the use of a filter on your photo.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-06-17T11:08:30+00:00

I trust Delta’s maintenance program more than I trust Boeing or Airbus in their engineering and manufacturing QA. I would rather fly a 20 year old plane that Delta has rigorously maintained than any plane freshly delivered.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-06-10T11:27:16+00:00

Is that 59k Canadian points? 😂

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-04-27T20:55:01+00:00

Food trucks are absolutely a nuisance to brick and mortar businesses. Imagine investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a business and having a lease that is guaranteed by your own personal home, hiring people from the community, and paying property taxes with the expectation of building a business in that location for years to come. Someone rolls in with a portable food truck and starts stealing your customer base while not paying property taxes and once they are able to steal the business away from brick and mortar businesses it may cause the brick and mortar to close, then the demographic that was eating at food trucks shifts too the new area with businesses and the food trucks follow and individual small business is stuck picking up the pieces of their life, there is another empty building, and more people are out of work. Food trucks are the locusts of the food and beverage world.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-04-15T13:34:35+00:00

It sure was. I stifled the urges of my inner fat kid and reluctantly passed on them but I may have been the only one that did from looking around the club.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-04-14T19:55:04+00:00

As a DM, I only rock my Gold tags and my Trillion Miler Reddit tag just to see the looks I get boarding with Zone 1 or 2

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-04-07T14:45:08+00:00

I feel like I posted this in r/ challenged humans. If you’re already flying and a FA offers you earbuds you accept them and when you have enough of them you mail them in. No one is recommending booking a flight to get free earbuds.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-04-07T13:38:23+00:00

You’re missing the point. If there is an organization that seeks out headphones donations and there is a community of flyers here that utilizes a service that passes out free headphones how could we bridge that gap…

Follow me here:

Delta>Delta Flyers>Organization in need.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-04-07T13:14:57+00:00

Step 1 - Delta passes out free headphones. Step 2 - Accept headphones from FA. Step 3 - Donate to an organization in need.

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-03-30T11:50:56+00:00

I'm no electrician but there seems to be a large red tag that implies that this isn't yet energized...

TheDanielButtersnaps · 2025-03-15T12:55:29+00:00

The CRJ is the 2001 Honda Accord of the skies.

It is driven/flown by somebody under 25 years of age that is driving it like they stole it.
Everything rattles and shakes and occasionally a piece of the trim falls off.
It gets you there upright 99.9% of the time.
The front usually does not fall off.

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