I know it's been said before, but in my opinion the crew should do their best to make the customer's experience as good as it can be. They are the last ones leaving the plane, so it does not really make much of a difference where they place their luggage, whether it's as close as possible to the doors or somewhere else on the aircraft. By all means, place it by row 1, but if a passenger looks baffled, why not just volunteering to move it somewhere else?