When I tried to pick up tickets at a Amtrak window, I was asked for my current AAA card. As we bought the tix online months before and forgot to put our renewed AAA membership cards in our wallets for the trip, we'd have been screwed if there were not a Quik-Trak machine that didn't care either way about the card.
Best take it with you, just in case.
I don't see what difference it would make to the agent :blink: if you paid online and didn't have your card handy. My question is do they get a cake or a new car for all the trouble they gave you :angry: ? Do they get some kind of reward for screwing up your trip? Stuff like that does not make sense to me. Maybe I"m slow.
Um, you're given a monetary discount for being a AAA member. You've got to be joking if you think the agent isn't obligated to ensure you actually qualify for the discount? Possessing an expired card is in no way proof you are a current member. How about instead of you blaming the agent for doing their job you blame the person who forgot to bring a valid card. What is the AAA discount anyway? I'm sure it's not peanuts.
If you're a member at the time you purchased the tickets -- possibly eleven months before when you pick them up and board the train -- then you're entitled to the discount. I don't think there's any requirement that you still be a member at time of travel... so displaying a AAA membership card that was valid at time of purchase (regardless of whether it's still valid or has since expired, and regardless of whether you are in fact still a member) should be perfectly acceptable.
Unless in the fine print there's a stipulation that you must be a AAA member at each of (1) time of sale, (2) time of picking up tickets, and (3) time of travel, or else you retroactively become ineligible for the discount you were eligible for at time of sale ... and I'll admit I can't say for certain that there's no such stipulation, but I would be very surprised to learn there actually is such a written policy.