Okay, so I'm flying out of EWR for home in about, well, 8 hours, and I bought a bunch of christmas gifts that won't fit in my rollaboard. So I have it stuffed in a Trader Joe's bag at the moment. And then I have a carryon messenger bag that'll be for my laptop and stuff, and obviously the rollaboard. So am I going to have to dissect one of the bags to get everything through security without a hassle? I'm sure it would be a squeeze but I can get my carryon inside my rollaboard for the trip through security. Laptop has to come out anyways so I'm not really concerned about that.@:-)

I'd rather stuff my carryon inside my rollaboard than the bag of gifts because the gifts consist of boxes of Truffles I bought at the Union Square Market that are in really flimsy boxes and there's about a 99% chance they'll get crushed. And no, I'm not paying United the $15 extortion fee to check my bag. If I were going to do that, I'd have put my stuff in a MUCH larger suitcase.