Originally Posted by
mtofell
Yeah, it's amazing how fast they can load the plane when I'm NOT at the gate

I've had similar things happen. Several times, I've gotten the "now boarding" text and arrive at the gate four minutes later to find they're on group D!
that’s *especially* annoying when I’m in Row 1 and *both* my laptop and rollaboard wind up over Row 6 … yeah I suppose I could ask the FA to verify that the stuff in the forward-most bins in fact belongs to the other folks in Row 1, but that’s too much of a DYKWIA move