Great link Doc and AZ-Mizman (- you added a period to the original link, so it did not work btw!).

With his permission I hope, posted below is one amusing anecodote posted there by Mister Internet:

My favorites are the passengers who insist on hauling on board all manner of odd-shaped baggage and try to cram (and I mean CRAM... you've all seen these people) them into an overhead bin while 200 other pax are waiting to get to their aisle behind them...

I was once on a UA Sh*ttle ("different class of service, lower class of people") flight, and a guy kept repeatedly trying to pull someone else's laptop out to make room for his bag and then try to reposition it FACE-OUT and cram the door shut! Well, the FA watching warned him that that would not be allowed, since the laptop would surely fall out onto whoever opened the door after him. H said OK, and sat down with his bag... after the FA left, he got up again and proceeded with the aforementioned attempt... well, passengers were still trying to board and now people were getting testy with him... the FA heard the rumbling and came back and demanded that the guy sit down and wait for everyone to board... well, he said something smart to her and sat down. About 30 seconds after the plane was boarded, he gets up again (before the plane started pushing back) and repeats the same procedure... a FA came storming down the aisle to inform him that if he didn't take his seat immediately, he would be thrown off the plane for disobeying crewmember instructions... he then shot back with "I have a right to put my bag up here, I paid $500 for this ticket!" Immediately someone about five rows behind him said, "I thought you were just ACTING like an ignorant a**hole, but if you paid $500 for a Shuttle ticket, you really ARE an ignorant a**hole" Everybody on the plane laughed, and we didn't hear another word out of him the rest of the flight...

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[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 11-30-2000).]