16. If you fly with Virgin America or another carrier where you can buy things from your seatback TV, put your favorite credit card (happens to be my AmEx), cellphone, and iPod in your pockets. Unless you have an empty middle seat, your coat and carryon should be ready to stow into the overhead by the time you cross the threshold of the plane. Took me 3 seconds to take my seat following this protocol. Find seat, stow stuff, close overhead, take seat, buckle seatbelt. Simple as that.

17. PLEASE wait until AFTER takeoff to abruptly recline your seatback, almost hitting the head of the person behind you. If you're going to recline your seatback, at least have the decency to ask or do it SLOWLY, so I can move my head/laptop out of the way. Oh, and reclining your seatback after landing and during taxiing to the gate is just silly. Short of your having a medical excuse, I won't have it.

18. If there's no more room in the overhead bins, at least have the courtesy to close it. And no, you are NOT entitled to smash my much more reasonably sized carryon (most of the time, a messenger bag and sweater/coat) with your 25" rollaboard that's too big to pass through any airplane aisle.