Originally Posted by
spcran4d
I have simply become unwilling to play this "luggage space in the overhead" game any more. Every time I fly, I check my "clothes" bag and put my laptop roller above.
Occasionally someone (who almost invariably has two carry-on bags and sometimes is trying to find space for both!) will "challenge" me with "Is this your bag? It belongs under your seat!", to which I respond "I'm sorry, it's my only carry-on and I want the space for my feet".
Maybe I'm the DYKWIA. Too bad.
On my transcons, I do the same thing. I'm a tall guy and I want to be able to comfortably stretch out my legs. So I use a larger rollaboard and check it, and then my laptop bag goes in the overhead, and that's that. I only had one person complain about it--I'm a "Big Ugly", so people tend not to smart-mouth me--and I said,
"Think of it this way: because I checked my bag, you have nearly double the room for your *two* bags." And that was that.
O/H