Saturday, July 30, 2005

New Idea


After a brutal storm laden trip home from Newark I have a new idea.
This one involves luggage. No more Fricking roll-aboard luggage is allowed to be stored in the overhead bin. You get to bring your purse or laptop bag that's it, eveything else gets checked.
Every trip I take there a multitudes of people crashing down the isle of the plane with a laptop bag and dragging roll-aboards. Once they find their seat they now have to place their laptop bag and hoist their behemoth piece of luggage into the overhead bin. Shoving the these over stuffed roll-aboards into the overhead bin is similar to shoving 10 lbs of crap into a 5 lb bag. While passengers attempt to pull off this engineering feat everyone else is required to wait, and the line to board the plane comes to a complete stop. By the time the poor sucker in row 35 gets to his seat there is now more overhead bin space left. Now this poor sap has to give his roll-aboard to the flight attendant (not the stewardess) who has to make it back upstream against all the passengers to check the poor saps roll-aboard. This whole up stream procedure is repeated several times as we now get to hear over the speaker "There is no overhead space left, please leave your luggage at the front door of the airline so we can check it" but do the passengers listen to this, not NO but "Hell No". They all figure that they can find some secret hidden overhead space that was left just for them. That's right buddy you are special, just like everyone else. This whole painful process delays our departure time. We all know the reason to carry on luggage, it's so you don't have to wait at baggage claim, but I bet as much time is wasted waiting for people to cram luggage into the overhead bins as you would waste waiting for your luggage at baggage claim.

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