I always take second row of exit seats instead of bulkhead...more legroom and I can store the briefcase down low.....I turn my coach seat into a shrine to the Upgrade Gods --- hoping, if only for a minute, that the Grim Seat Reaper will tap me on the shoulder and take me to First Class heaven --- I don't get tapped very often (but it's always nice when someone looks at you and has the same seat assignment ---- that means I'm movin' up!).