I’ve known that my bank, Citibank, started this “Thank You Network” thing a few years back, but I have never bothered to look into this thing until today. In the beginning, the reason for me not investigating further into this thing was the fact that they gave out this looooong sequence of numbers as my “account” number for it, and isn’t that the most ridiculous thing? Why oh why can’t these people just make it easy for people? So I’ve been ignoring it until today when I inadvertently clicked on the link for the Thank You Network while doing some online banking.

They changed the settings so that I had to just create a user ID and password with that cumbersomely long numerical sequence already plugged in for me- which, by the way, is still kinda ridiculous if you ask me since they could have just made people use the same user IDs and passwords as their online banking accounts. Anyways, I went through the registration process and finally was able to see what was in my account. I had 17,266 points, which of course didn’t mean shit for me then, but after a few clicks to find out what my points would get me, I found out I could get $100 cash for 16,000 points!!! Uber cool, don’t you think?

I also learned that using the bankcard instead of cash will get me more points. If I had known that when they first started this, I would have more than 100,000 points by now, which could get me a DSLR camera, either Canon 400D or Nikon D80. So from now on, all my groceries and gas and everything will be paid by my bankcard if it’s humanly possible at all. Yippee!!!!!

Oh, btw, if I collect some ridiculous 2 million something points, I’d be eligible for a Yamaha grand piano, which is extremely tempting, but I’m one of those impatient sort. I could never get that many points.