High Miles Meets Mile High
My job requires a lot of international travel. A silver lining to this is that we can collect personal airmiles from all the business-expensed flights, so they can add up pretty quickly.
One of my senior coworkers, who has been saving her air miles for a while, comes into work one day excited, with a special letter and card from the airline we most frequently use.
Coworker: “I’m now a member of the Mile High Club!”
Me: “Uh… what?”
Coworker: “I got a million miles saved up! That puts me in their special club! Look!”
Me: “[Coworker], you’re trying to tell me that you’ve saved up a large number of miles with [Airline], right? Nothing else?”
Coworker: “Yes! Why, what are you talking about?”
Me: “Do you know what the Mile High Club is?”
Coworker: “Yes, it’s the club you join when you’ve saved a high number of miles with the airline! I hear people talking about it all the time, and I’m finally a member!”
Me: “Okay, let me explain something…”
After I told her what the Mile High Club really was (which has a much lower barrier to entry), she was very grateful that I was the first person in the office she had told that morning!
