When boarding a plane please do not act as if you are the only person that matters, and that your carry on luggage is the prized possession of Queen Elizabeth!! Try hard not to pull someone else's carry-on out of the overhead and throw it to the floor to make room for your own. When a somewhat quiet, sheepish gentlemen tells you calmly that the garment bag you just threw on the floor is his you may not want to yell at him for not speaking up and claiming it when you asked everyone who's bag it was. When this same gentlemen inquires where you are going to now put his garment bag try hard not to snap at him and tell him that it will have just as much space as it did where it was before you ripped it out of the overhead, if that were true you would not have had to move it in the first place. When all of this chaos is over, and YOU are satisfied that YOUR piece of luggage has been accommodated please try to resist the urge to shove another gentlemen on the back of the shoulder because you want him to get up so you may take your middle seat.
Yes, I did witness a woman doing just this, and I have grossly understated it, on my flight from Baltimore to Denver on Thursday. No one said a great deal to her because I honestly believe that we were all in shock. The gentlemen who was the owner of the garment bag deserves a gold star for not strangling this woman in the aisle.
Traveling is difficult enough, and especially air travel these days, without people taking their issues, inadequacies, or self-loathing out on those around them. OK, maybe that was a bit harsh, but this woman was an absolute piece of work.
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