Maybe this is worth it's own thread. I mean if people are going to bash my wife it should be over something legit, not because she's wrong about the cause of my hair loss.
We go to Vegas about once a year and we do get some comps because of our play but also because of the Total Rewards credit card (this is tied to all Harrah's/Caesars/etc properties for those who don't know). Because of the Visa we have enough points for the 2 of us to eat at all the best CET restaurants and enough left over for whatever. For those who don't gamble or know what I'm talking about, this is like airline rewards or cash back but my points are used in Casinos for merchandise, food, hotel rooms, etc.
So a few others are going to meet us there and out of the blue my wife says isn't this great, we can pay for all your food and it won't cost us anything. I look at her with the what in the hell did you do look. She says in front of them what's you problem? What did I do? Of course I can't say anything but I did say well she doesn't know how many points we have but we can sure get our breakfasts. She looks at me and says why am I being so cheap? This is in front of everyone. I just smile. After they leave I ask her what she was doing. She said why can't we use the points for them? I said because there is just enough for us but not now. Of course she gets pissed and walks out of the room and made a big issue out of this for days, saying we should just cancel etc.
It's basically like she picked up the tab for all their meals using money we would have been able to spend on other things. Nobody offered to use their credit card points to buy us stuff in return. You would think someone would have said something like, 'oh that wouldn't be necessary, you guys put a lot of effort into accumulating your points all year, they are yours to use' or something acknowledging she just made a ridiculous offer.
Things have settled down for the most part but she basically just says I'm cheap whenever the subject of our trip comes up. WHen I try to explain that it's no different than if we didn't have these points and she offered to pay with cash. It eats into our trip budget.
For those who aren't gamblers maybe this won't seem like a big deal a good analogy might be if you have a credit card that gives you airline miles and you are planning a trip with another couple and you have enough airline points for two free tickets and your wife says out of the blue and without mentioning it to you first 'isn't this great we have two free tickets, you guys take one and we'll take one that way we each only have to pay for one airline ticket each.'
We go to Vegas about once a year and we do get some comps because of our play but also because of the Total Rewards credit card (this is tied to all Harrah's/Caesars/etc properties for those who don't know). Because of the Visa we have enough points for the 2 of us to eat at all the best CET restaurants and enough left over for whatever. For those who don't gamble or know what I'm talking about, this is like airline rewards or cash back but my points are used in Casinos for merchandise, food, hotel rooms, etc.
So a few others are going to meet us there and out of the blue my wife says isn't this great, we can pay for all your food and it won't cost us anything. I look at her with the what in the hell did you do look. She says in front of them what's you problem? What did I do? Of course I can't say anything but I did say well she doesn't know how many points we have but we can sure get our breakfasts. She looks at me and says why am I being so cheap? This is in front of everyone. I just smile. After they leave I ask her what she was doing. She said why can't we use the points for them? I said because there is just enough for us but not now. Of course she gets pissed and walks out of the room and made a big issue out of this for days, saying we should just cancel etc.
It's basically like she picked up the tab for all their meals using money we would have been able to spend on other things. Nobody offered to use their credit card points to buy us stuff in return. You would think someone would have said something like, 'oh that wouldn't be necessary, you guys put a lot of effort into accumulating your points all year, they are yours to use' or something acknowledging she just made a ridiculous offer.
Things have settled down for the most part but she basically just says I'm cheap whenever the subject of our trip comes up. WHen I try to explain that it's no different than if we didn't have these points and she offered to pay with cash. It eats into our trip budget.
For those who aren't gamblers maybe this won't seem like a big deal a good analogy might be if you have a credit card that gives you airline miles and you are planning a trip with another couple and you have enough airline points for two free tickets and your wife says out of the blue and without mentioning it to you first 'isn't this great we have two free tickets, you guys take one and we'll take one that way we each only have to pay for one airline ticket each.'
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