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[palhockeymomof2]

It was my 7th Birthday. I have really clear memories of that day. I think it’s because I was in NY. Friends from out of state don’t remember it like how SO and I do.

Oh, one time I was going through TSA at ISP and she made a comment about my birthday being 9/11. She asked if I still celebrate it. I felt funny saying I do.

Of course you should celebrate your birthday.....what a strange thing to ask someone....
I definitely think those of us in the NY area and probably DC view 9/11 different
As a parent we watched the towers fall and didn’t know if we should go pull our kids out of school.
My son was in 9th grade and remembers kids being called to the office...they sadly were because a parent had been killed

 

[speedyfishy]

Yes. 3 adults, 2 children (6, 10) round trip on Delta + 4 nights at Universal + (1) 2 day park to park for 180k.

this is awesome. I have already planned my vacations though. Ugh, lol major FOMO.

 

[speedyfishy]

Of course you should celebrate your birthday.....what a strange thing to ask someone....
I definitely think those of us in the NY area and probably DC view 9/11 different
As a parent we watched the towers fall and didn’t know if we should go pull our kids out of school.
My son was in 9th grade and remembers kids being called to the office...they sadly were because a parent had been killed

I feel bad because she probably lost someone that day. My SO had a job offer at a company at One World Trade Center and I really did not want him working there.

 

[mmmears]

I think "extra" is something the college kids say (DD, her friends, and my friend's kids use it). Avocado toast is just wonderful and it belongs to us all!

@Albort, if you still have info about selling off AA GCs, could you please let me know? I think I have a use for ours, but in all honesty I think it would make more sense to just sell them off.

I went back and deleted his quote from my post, though I can't edit those who quoted it. Some information is just too powerful to be shared. You know, with great power, comes great responsibility. I'd hate to feel guilty for the consequences of anyone going too crazy, even if I could temporarily bask in their churning glory. I'll be strongly tempted to take an extra platinum the next time I need an MSR, though.

I totally get why you took it down. And I'm the last one to push AMEX to the breaking point, so I doubt I'd even use the tip, but now I'm d y i n g to know what I missed out on. Ugh I was too busy today to catch up with the thread until now.

 

[Haley R]

Hope you can get on soon..
Definitely not a millennial but love guacamole...

Yea you were younger and fortunately didn’t realize ......Unfortunately kids knew what was going on since they knew kids in their schools who lost parents....my sister lost her brother-in-law..

..I didn’t realize until it was mentioned in that post that there were different views on 9/11.....thought everyone viewed it as a horrible event...will now have to google and see

Still won’t load... what the heck. I realized even though we use fire sticks on our tv we could still watch Disney+ on our Xbox

ETA: https://www.businessinsider.com/d23-website-crashes-down-during-from-disney-plus-deal-2019-8 not just me then

Makes me a little nervous to join their subscription service...

 

[palhockeymomof2]

I feel bad because she probably lost someone that day. My SO had a job offer at a company at One World Trade Center and I really did not want him working there.

Could be...living on LI it’s easy to know someone.....
I think I read you are thinking of coming back to LI..not sure what industry you are both in but with some it’s hard to avoid the city.....

 

[speedyfishy]

Could be...living on LI it’s easy to know someone.....
I think I read you are thinking of coming back to LI..not sure what industry you are both in but with some it’s hard to avoid the city.....

We would either live in Manhattan or queens if we move back home. I need access to the subway lol Brooklyn is too hipster for me now and I only go to the Bronx for baseball games lol

 

[palhockeymomof2]

We would either live in Manhattan or queens if we move back home. I need access to the subway lol Brooklyn is too hipster for me now and I only go to the Bronx for baseball games lol

Best of luck with whatever you decide...and definitely have only gone to the Bronx for baseball games with my son when he is up from FL

 

[MKTokyo]

Back from London! We had an amazing trip & I think we worked the points game as best we could. I'll try to do a full report later.

I always felt like the generations were too wide. I mean surely a 38 year old and a 23 year okd have different takes on 9/11 for example. (I fall firmly in the middle of the generation so no bias to either end!). Who made Pew the king of these things anyway?! Haha

I think views on 9/11 are highly location-specific in addition to generational. I was in kindergarten across the river. My teacher was crying as she tried to read to us until we could be picked up. When we walked outside, the entire skyline (or what we could see of it) had changed. My father often had meetings in the towers and we did not hear from him until after noon. I never really know what to say to people when 9/11 rolls around and they all seem compelled to write things like, "I remember exactly where I was - aisle 7 of the grocery store! #NeverForget #911" Good for you? I try to avoid social media entirely on that day.

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

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[Jax1023]

Hope you can get on soon..
Definitely not a millennial but love guacamole...

Yea you were younger and fortunately didn’t realize ......Unfortunately kids knew what was going on since they knew kids in their schools who lost parents....my sister lost her brother-in-law..

..I didn’t realize until it was mentioned in that post that there were different views on 9/11.....thought everyone viewed it as a horrible event...will now have to google and see

I think the mean view it different as in being an adult vs being a child. I’m technically the ultimate millennial- graduated high school in 2000; became an adult in the new millennium, that’s what we were named for. I’m 37. I was a sophomore in college on 9/11. I’m from LI but I was away at college in central NY. Still, I was old enough to fully understand the implications. I had friends for HS loose parents, my parents lost friends at Cantor Fitzgerald.

I work with a women who’s also a millennial.She was in 2nd grade on 9/11. She’s from north jersey and could actually see the towers from her elementary school. But being 7 she couldn’t really process or understand it in the same way, you know?

Also the younger people don’t remember life before, I remember going to islip airport and walking directly to the gate when my dad was going to a conference when I was younger. I remember airports without metal detectors and public transit without see something say something. For someone who was 7, it’s just how it’s always been, you know?

 

[trstno1]

I think "extra" is something the college kids say (DD, her friends, and my friend's kids use it). Avocado toast is just wonderful and it belongs to us all!

@Albort, if you still have info about selling off AA GCs, could you please let me know? I think I have a use for ours, but in all honesty I think it would make more sense to just sell them off.



I totally get why you took it down. And I'm the last one to push AMEX to the breaking point, so I doubt I'd even use the tip, but now I'm d y i n g to know what I missed out on. Ugh I was too busy today to catch up with the thread until now.

I feel like my comments earlier today, followed by the deleted comment, may have created the wrong impression. AK was entirely nice with me, and it was very kind of him to offer to publicly share his AmEx contacts in the first place. His first message to me was strictly the nuts and bolts about how to handle the phone call with AmEx. I have made this phone call before, but I still appreciate his guidance. I would expect everyone contacting him to have a similarly positive experience.

The second message was after I was approved for the card. It offered congratulations, and he briefly commented about his churning pace, which most of us would look on in amazement. The redacted comment was about the already-known fact that you can hold multiple AmEx Biz Plats, Biz Golds, and Biz Greens, at the same time. He has simply taken this to another level.

 

[Lain]

So glad to be Gen X. Or my preference the Oregon Trail generation for those few years that don't really fit x or z.

*Xennial.

 

[speedyfishy]

Best of luck with whatever you decide...and definitely have only gone to the Bronx for baseball games with my son when he is up from FL

Thanks I’m hoping to go back home but SO has no desire to go back. He only misses the food. I miss everything lol we also need to be making a lot more money because SO is demanding an apartment that is equivalent to what we have now and that’s easily $5,000 a month in Manhattan. Queens maybe more realistic for us but depending on how far out we are and where in Manhattan the commute is a pain. SOs commute is 20 mins here and all his coworkers are closer and think that’s a long commute. In NY he easily would spend over an hour on his commute to/from Manhattan from queens lol

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

...I know those MRs could easily be worth $900 towards Home Depot and I'll always have needs pop up there so I am getting double value out of them but it's not like they were worth $0 to begin with...

Haha - I read this again and realized I mentioned MRs and pop up in the same sentence...Unintended pun???

 

[speedyfishy]

I remember exactly where I was - aisle 7 of the grocery store! #NeverForget #911" Good for you? I try to avoid social media entirely on that day.

The worst are the clowns that go to ground zero taking smiling selfies.

 

[Jax1023]

Back from London! We had an amazing trip & I think we worked the points game as best we could. I'll try to do a full report later.


I think views on 9/11 are highly location-specific in addition to generational. I was in kindergarten across the river. My teacher was crying as she tried to read to us until we could be picked up. When we walked outside, the entire skyline (or what we could see of it) had changed. My father often had meetings in the towers and we did not hear from him until after noon. I never really know what to say to people when 9/11 rolls around and they all seem compelled to write things like, "I remember exactly where I was - aisle 7 of the grocery store! #NeverForget #911" Good for you? I try to avoid social media entirely on that day.

I agree with this. My sisters college roommate has a 9/11 birthday. She was a senior in hs in Arkansas, so it was traumatic, but also like a distant event in a far away place. The next year, she came to college in the NY area and was shocked by how closely people were effected. She didn’t really no anyone personally or anything. It’s like when I watched the news on wildfires in CA or an earthquake in Haiti or something. It’s tragic and sad and makes me upset, but I’m still emotionally distanced in a way, it hasn’t touched my personal life. Tragic events are always going to be hardest for the people closest or who were personally effected.

 

[palhockeymomof2]

I think the mean view it different as in being an adult vs being a child. I’m technically the ultimate millennial- graduated high school in 2000; became an adult in the new millennium, that’s what we were named for. I’m 37. I was a sophomore in college on 9/11. I’m from LI but I was away at college in central NY. Still, I was old enough to fully understand the implications. I had friends for HS loose parents, my parents lost friends at Cantor Fitzgerald.

I work with a women who’s also a millennial.She was in 2nd grade on 9/11. She’s from north jersey and could actually see the towers from her elementary school. But being 7 she couldn’t really process or understand it in the same way, you know?

Also the younger people don’t remember life before, I remember going to islip airport and walking directly to the gate when my dad was going to a conference when I was younger. I remember airports without metal detectors and public transit without see something say something. For someone who was 7, it’s just how it’s always been, you know?

Very good point...I googled and couldn’t find much other that the conspiracy theories...and they don’t think the holocaust etc happened

 

[orangecuse]

@MKTokyo for sure location and generation. The youngest millenials would have been 5 which was about my brothers age. We are from TN originally and most of his friend group still in TN at that time would tell you they don’t really recall the day itself or the strong feelings/shift before and after in the same way older kids/adults/those in and nearby areas affected would. Its weird to think they view it very similarly to something like Pearl Harbor (where they see it as a horrific event, understand the ramifications, but don’t really have personal memories tied to it). My dad was actually flying at the time the towers went down and I remember an overwhelming sense of dread wondering about his flight while we waited for details of what was happening. My brother doesn’t remember that detail at all.

Yes what @Jax1023 said!

 

[trstno1]

Man - this Delta thing has me torn... I could transfer over my MRs to Delta and book the Contemporary resort room I want for about $600 (and use my 5k Delta and 90k MR balances to cover the other $1,900).

But I could also just book the room I want for $2,350 (and Disney might come out with a 10% discount here soon which is typical on CR) and use Disney GCs to pay and save another 12% that way. And then cash out URs to offset the cost.

If I book with Delta I have to deal with the throwaway flight which shouldn't mess anything up (but you never know) and also would book for 1 adult and need to add others to the reservation AND hope that it's seamless getting the conf# to connect everything into MDE. And of course it also has a much less generous cancellation policy...

And as far as comparing using the points, I know those MRs could easily be worth $900 towards Home Depot and I'll always have needs pop up there so I am getting double value out of them but it's not like they were worth $0 to begin with.

I'm not really looking for advice here - just venting lol. I think I'm going to pass on this one though.

There are so many unknowns with this offer, including if it will ever happen again, and if they will still offer WDW resorts in 2021. I really hope somebody books something, then cancels, so we can see how the refunded travel voucher works. (Is the voucher 2 cents per mile or 1 cent? Does it have an expiration date?)

I know, I know- be the data point you want to see. And maybe I will. I just need to find a cheap hotel and a cheap flight.