New Take on an Old Frustration – Squashing Your Carryon into the Bin

May 28, 2009 | Posted in: Flight Attendants,Passengers

Just read a witty post by TheStreet’s Stanley Bing – it was a simple story about an everyday frustration that hit home with me – the power-mad flight attendant who messes up your neatly stowed carryons. Here’s a couple of paragraphs: “As always, there is always one butthead who appears just as the doors are closing and requires immediate assistance for seating and stowage. Indeed, here he came, and with him, following close by, a very neat, very tidy, very trim gate agent with the passenger’s wheely bag in tow. The flight attendant began to look for an overhead compartment to put his bag. He selected ours, which was already rather full not only with our possessions but those of several others. The flight attendant opened the compartment door and immediately began violently jamming the new bag into a space that he perceived existed somewhere in the interstitial zone between everybody’s luggage.” - Stanley Bing, TheStreet There’s no big denouement – just a laugh-out-loud take on a situation we’ve all been in.

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One Response to “New Take on an Old Frustration – Squashing Your Carryon into the Bin”

1. Chris McMahon says:

   June 6, 2009 at 1:09 am

   Regarding the passenger who was not late who wanted to store his carry on: Oh come on Stanley Bing. Your pissey whining about the flight attendant who was just doing his job burns me. The FA was helping a passenger stow his carry on. The “butthead” as you called him (how childlike) had just as much right to stow his roller as you and your wife. He had a seat. I am sorry but if you put a coat in the overhead expect it to get crushed. Learn to share, you selfish goon.
   You are obviously the pushy type who gets in everybody’s way and makes boarding the plane a mob scene because you have too many things and have to get on first. You are only allowed one thing! You had coats, laptops AND roller luggage. You should have been made to check your extra “carry on” and pay the fee.
   To be honest, you are like a child. I suppose everyone who boards after you is a “butthead.” Grow up.