On a flight last week I was wedged into a window seat and could notngetnout past the person in the middle and a mom with lap infant. Mi asked the passing FA if she would pas me my very small laptop bag out of the bin, since this too was a bulkhead and I could keep it by me for take off. By theis time we were at maybe 20,000 feet and still in a nice smooth climb. The FA said she could not retrieve it for me "while the aircraft is unstable." eventually the guy across the aisle got up and I asked him to hand it to me, but would it really have been that taxing or dangerous for her to pass it to me so as not to wake the sleeping baby?