Introduction I am a magnet for shutdown stories. I love them because you can learn the limits of how hard you can push certain things. If you have a shutdown story, please let me know and I’ll post it (with anonymity of course.) Today’s story is coming from a reader’s friend who had his personal, […]
Introduction I had written a while back of how I bought some Hamilton Chicago tickets. Oh wait, I never wrote about them for some reason. Anyway, I haven’t sold any NY ones yet, but I had bought 2 pairs for Chicago. One of those pairs was for the Friday after Thanksgiving matinee showing. I figured […]
Introduction Well this sucks. My wife had called me on Friday night saying her Sapphire Reserve card wasn’t working again. It had issues a few weeks earlier, but when re-ran, it worked. Thus, I chalked it up to another bad terminal or so. However, I woke up on Saturday, logged in to her account and […]
Introduction File this one under one of those obscure events that may never happen to you, but if it does, you know what to do. Anyway, about a month ago, I went and bought $2000 worth of Ebay gift cards at Office Depot. I had put in my chip card, signed the pin pad, […]
Introduction It’s common knowledge that AMEX will only let you have 4 CREDIT cards, but there were data points that some people were able to get 5 CREDIT cards, my wife being one of them. I don’t think anyone has dug into this deeper on why some people have been able to get 5 and […]