Originally Posted by
cajunguy
Clearly that person who asked for help knew they had over packed beyond the weight they could manage. Every time I see someone struggling to put their bag in the overhead I think they should have known better.
Yes, they should have known better but they didn't and the bag is not going to get magically lighter on the spot. It will go up there eventually by you or someone else and the plane isn't going anywhere until it does.
I will continue to help. I will also continue to regard physically capable people who would refuse to help out of some twisted sense of self-righteousness to be complete (expletive deleted.)