Steve Byrne

Scant 18 minutes later, I was standing in front of the nice lady.

And by the way.

It is gone.

Whatever was in air travel, it's completely gone.

Mike August was keeping a no tally.

I held up the priority pass, and she said, nope, we no longer accept those.

Well, we merged with Continental and they accept them.

There's always some bullshit thing where it's like, first off, please don't tell me all the places that do accept them because it's making things worse.

Oh, if you were in Vegas, it'd be no problem.

Yes.

If you'd only gotten here 10 minutes before, we could have let you in.

She mentioned that...

Continental, after they merge, would accept them.

By the way, why bother merging if you're not going to accept it and she's not going to accept it and they're going to accept it?

And then she went on to mention that it would also work in the beautiful new Alaskan Airlines lounge, but that's on the other side of the airport.

So she gave me the airline and another possible lounge that would accept it.

And then I did what I do every time and I said, Mike August, watch this because my streak has never been broken.

I pulled out my black American Express card and I held it up and I said, how about this, baby?

Because when you get the black American Express card, it comes in a leather bound folder with a British chick stuffed into the folder.

And it basically it's like if you would like to close down any department store during business hours and shops.