{"id":3402,"date":"2013-04-27T23:02:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T03:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2013-04-29T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:59:27","slug":"time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/2013\/04\/27\/time-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"One Mile At A Time Invents Time Travel, But Mr Pickles is King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re attending FTU, or read One Mile At A Time, you probably heard that Lucky invented time travel&#8230;well, sort of. \u00a0Lucky&#8217;s post yesterday, which had to be one of his funniest yet, created quite a stir with some readers. \u00a0In case you missed it, Lucky went back in time &#8211; to April 1st &#8211; and decided to play a belated April Fools joke on his readers.<\/p>\n<p>A featured speaker at FTU, Lucky <a href=\"http:\/\/boardingarea.com\/blogs\/onemileatatime\/2013\/04\/26\/sorry-guys-plans-changed-for-frequent-traveler-university\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> that he&#8217;d found an unheard of mistake fare on Air France in First Class in their new A-380. \u00a0He said he was going to miss his morning session so that he could fly to France, and be back in time for the afternoon sessions. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t believe the number of readers who actually fell for the joke &#8211; granted, it&#8217;s 26 days after April Fools&#8230;but still, a $69 first class fare AND he&#8217;d be back for the afternoon sessions? Are people really that\u00a0gullible? \u00a0Yep, apparently, you should see some the angry comments. \u00a0Here are few of the comments that just made me say &#8220;huh&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dumb Joke. I can\u2019t believe you would do that to your followers.Very unloyal and disrespectful. &#8211; Sam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I think you\u2019re awesome. I\u2019m living vicariously through you. I wish I had the balls to do the things you\u2019re doing, although FF programs were in their infancy when I was your age.This was a FANTASTIC gag! Reading people\u2019s reactions shows that you have many, many passionate fans &#8211; Steve\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Quote \u201cI\u2019ve faced a lot of tough decisions in my life, though choosing between Air France first class for $69 and attending Frequent Traveler University is definitely one of the toughest.\u201d\u00a0One of the toughest decisions of my life? All I can say is Wow. I think that instead of taking the trip you need to get a better grip on your priorities. As the ones you\u2019ve displayed in this post have lost you at least one reader &#8211; Jeff\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People really got passionate and heated with their comments! \u00a0Like I said, I thought the whole thing was hysterical &#8211; if only FTU coincided with April Fools&#8230;Lucky would have had something there! \u00a0 Having said that, I still think The Mr Pickles April Fools joke, which he <a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/themrpickles\/2013\/04\/01\/i-bought-a-bank\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> on April 1st, was the best I&#8217;ve seen in a long time &#8211; he&#8217;s the King of April Fools Travel jokes. \u00a0The Mr. Pickles bought a bank (The Bank of Pickles?) and funded a First2Board Credit Card with the most unheard of points\/miles program ever!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Lucky s\u00a0trip back to April Fools Day wasn&#8217;t so successful &#8211; or at least his readers didn&#8217;t think so &#8211; but I&#8217;m still laughing! I personally can&#8217;t wait to see what Lucky comes up with next April 1st!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re attending FTU, or read One Mile At A Time, you probably heard that Lucky invented time travel&#8230;well, sort of. \u00a0Lucky&#8217;s post yesterday, which had to be one of his funniest yet, created quite a stir with some readers&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"@OneMileAtATime Invents Time Travel, But @TheMrPickles is still King","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[91,92,22],"tags":[757,321,322,320],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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