How tall are you? I rarely put a bag in the overhead, but when I do, it's usually difficult, because I have to lift it over my head. And I'm average height.
Yes, this. I am plenty strong for my size, but I'm 5'1". Trying to manage a large carry-on is a total pain in the ass, but I do the best I can. Sometimes I need help--especially getting the damn thing down. I have tried to avoid bringing anything I can't fit under my seat for this very reason, because it's so incredibly embarrassing, but sometimes I can't avoid it.
ETA: Not meaning to sound snarky at you, Vortex, it's just a sore spot for me.
Yeah, the fee-to-check-anything thing is also going to be harder on families than on individuals. Family of four, 4-6 carryons/"personal items", and Mom and Dad get to carry them all! Boarding time is going to take twice as long, and result in a lot more swearing.
How much visual time do you have to hit fastball?
In fact, although there's a legend out there that the best hitters in the world have been able to see the ball hit the bat, this has been prove physically impossible. Batters hit based on where they think the ball will go, and their eyes cannot adjust quickly enough to see the ball 10 feet out and then see the ball 1 foot out. The ball is just traveling too fast. If you were to try to see yourself hitting the ball, you would have to swing without taking your eye off the blank spot in front of the plate where the ball is
going
to be. Which is basically like swinging blind.
I sometimes have a difficult time getting my bag in the overhead compartment because I'm short and I have to go up on my tiptoes and heave, and there's an upper limit to what I can lift with my toes, man.
It's going to be a nightmare, with people now always taking carryon.
Yeah, it's like they asked themselves, "How can we make flying even more of a miserable, soul-sucking experience? I KNOW."
"How can we make flying even more of a miserable, soul-sucking experience? I KNOW."
Instead of the plane being always too cold, make it swelter! The post-boarding pre-takeoff wait of doom? Four hours minimum! Play muzak the whole flight!!
who stands in the aisle and looks pitiful
I'm pretty sure this was the key part of that post. I've asked for help when I've overpacked my carry-on, and I'm tall! But I do keep the process moving, and not just stand there looking sad.
I always volunteer for that last-minute check thing they'll do, where they take your bag right at the bottom of the ramp before you walk on the plane, because I *always* have trouble getting my bag up into the compartment.
where they take your bag right at the bottom of the ramp before you walk on the plane,
I love when they do this - they do it a lot at the Burbank airport. I wish they did it on every flight.
I hate carrying a bag more than I do checking. Purse large enough to hold a book or two, waterbottle, jewelry carrier, ipod, wallet and anything else I might need for the duration of transit. That's it.
I think it comes from having to sprint from terminal A to terminal Z in 30 minutes or less far too many times (when you fly to relative podunk, you really don't want to miss that final leg because it's your only chance that day.)
I'm pretty sure this was the key part of that post.
Good point. When I'm wrestling with a suitcase, I'm pretty sure that I look like an insane, ridiculous, little wrathmonster.
