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Originally posted by Gattigap
Amen, sista. I grew weary of battling my fellow travelers for that extra inch of overhead storage space and now (unless what I'm packing really is minimal) simply check it.
Instead of climbing over the dead bodies of my competitors to get on the plane as early as possible in order to shove coat, bag and briefcase into 8 cubic feet of overhead space, let me hang out in the terminal avoid the line, and walk onto the plane after everyone else has boarded. Good karma, less stress.
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If you try to board before they call your row number, they should put you in a pen on the side and force you to board last. If you wait right next to the door, blocking everyone else's access whose turn it is to board because you want to be the first person in row 15 to shove your oversized bag into overhead storage lengthwise, your belongings should be thrown onto the runway.
Here is what I do not understand. Everyone must must must (bite bite bite) board the plane as soon as physically possible, so they can sit down. Then, when the plane lands, everyone must immediately pop up and stand in the aisle or half-crunched near the window for 15 minutes waiting for other people to file out. Why? What does that get you? An extra 3 minutes on the cab line? A little extra rev-up time to achieve full annoyance level while waiting for your checked-in bags because they couldn't possibly get from the plane to the carousel faster than the oldest old person on the plane could crawl there?
While I'm at it, put your shit into the overhead as fast as you can, and do it from
within your row. If you are holding up the whole line of people trying to board because you needed to be in your seat in row 7 before anyone else set foot on the plane, you should be trampled to death or a really bad headache.
TM
