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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am on a flight now and the instructions printed inside the overhead bins are crystal clear - if you have a rolling suitcase, turn it on its side and put it in wheels first. Yet people are laying them flat, horizontally, thereby taking up the space that could be used for three bags. Amazing. I wish the flight attendant would be able to ask people to set their bags in correctly but that would take even more time during boarding.[/quote]

I wish the flight attendants would actually, you know, attend. Plenty of people just need a little help. My elderly mother asked for assistance and it was her fellow passengers who helped out as the “flight attendant” could not be bothered. I once asked for help when I was 6 months pregnant and the “flight attendant” actually rolled her eyes at me. Fellow travelers are usually the ones to assist one another and make things pleasant. So now that I’m not pregnant I do my best to keep an eye out for people who might need a hand storing bags the correct way. We’ve all been there as parents traveling with young kids, we’ve all been there as people traveling to a funeral in a daze of grief, we’ve all been there when we have shoulder or knee injuries, or infirm parents to assist, etc.

Let’s help each other out with patience as fellow travelers. Because goodness knows the “attendants” are usually attending to rolling their eyes at passengers, giving knowing looks to one another and having little inside jokes over the intercom, and fawning over the passengers who look rich, hot, or both.[/quote]

Obviously we all.have just personal anecdotes, but on the vast majority of my flights the FAs have done those helpful things, including reminding people to load bags "on their side, like a book", and quickly rearranging bags in bins to make more space, when they have an opening in the aisle.[/quote]

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