# People who pretend to not understand boarding groups for airplanes. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 13, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-pretend-to-not-understand-boarding-groups-for-airplanes/612686 "2012-02-13T06:43:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 61
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-pretend-to-not-understand-boarding-groups-for-airplanes/612686/61 "2012-02-13T22:50:07Z")
I have a little 22" carry-on suitcase and when I fly, it’s pretty much _always_ international. I belong to this loosely-formed Rick Steves “One Bag Club”, and absolutely all I need for a 10-12 day trip fits into that thing, so no checked baggage fee for me. I also have a courier bag that goes under the front of my seat where I keep all the stuff I may need during the flight. So I’m all legal, got my boarding pass, the correct seat and all I have to do is settle in, right? Wrong. No room in my overhead compartment (again, not that I need it), but part of that space is _mine_, dammit. _Somebody_ got on board with one of those over-size things and they caused everything to be shifted toward the front/back of the airplane. Oh yeah, what’s that announcement about “some of your bags may have shifted during the flight”? Bullshit. There’s no damn _room_ for them to shift! 🙂 I try not to be a Nazi about it, but it sure is a wrong way to begin a Trans-Atlantic flight. Q --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-pretend-to-not-understand-boarding-groups-for-airplanes/612686)._