Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:40     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:I do not help people with their bags because I do not want to injury myself or them.

How would you injury them? Cause you might swing the bag too hard and hit them? How is that any different than if you did the same with your bag?
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:39     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I dunno. I mean as a 5'1" person I can technically lift my fully packed hard case carry-on into the overhead but it is sometimes a struggle. Thankfully there is always a guy around who likes to feel useful.

As a 5' petite woman, I have a hard time lifting those carryon spinner bags. A couple of times, a nice gentleman helped me. Once I asked the flight attendant, and they said no. lol

I can stand on the seat to get bag down, but if it's heavy, I have a harder time putting it up in the bin.

I am old enough where I recall flight attendance helped with bags. But, this was also when they were called "stewardess".


Look, I'm short and small, too, but you need to be able to be fully able to handle your baggage yourself--pack a smaller or lighter bag.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:38     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm short. Some newer interior designs are configured in a way that I simply cannot reach the overhead compartment, even on my tippy toes. If my bag meets the requirements for size and weight the airline publishes, then I should be able to store it on board even if I need help getting it into the storage compartment provided.

Airlines don't provide the service of transporting your handbags throughout the airport, so I'm not sure who is complaining about bags they can't carry on their own.

Nope.

This sounds like the type of person who doesnt return their shopping carts because that's someone elses job Entitled pricks all around.

The tall person sitting behind me also doesn't have the right to keep pushing the back of my seat with their long legs. Pay for an upgrade to get more space.

The large person next to me also doesn't have the right to overflow into my side of the seat. Pay for an extra seat.

But, alas, they don't do that. They just expect other people to deal with their issues. They see a petite person and think, "Oooh, I can invade their space. They won't mind since they are little." No, I paid for that space.

Well if you could reasonably shove yourself in the overhead compartment it sounds like everyone would be better off.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:34     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm short. Some newer interior designs are configured in a way that I simply cannot reach the overhead compartment, even on my tippy toes. If my bag meets the requirements for size and weight the airline publishes, then I should be able to store it on board even if I need help getting it into the storage compartment provided.

Airlines don't provide the service of transporting your handbags throughout the airport, so I'm not sure who is complaining about bags they can't carry on their own.

Nope.

This sounds like the type of person who doesnt return their shopping carts because that's someone elses job Entitled pricks all around.

The tall person sitting behind me also doesn't have the right to keep pushing the back of my seat with their long legs. Pay for an upgrade to get more space.

The large person next to me also doesn't have the right to overflow into my side of the seat. Pay for an extra seat.

But, alas, they don't do that. They just expect other people to deal with their issues. They see a petite person and think, "Oooh, I can invade their space. They won't mind since they are little." No, I paid for that space.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:30     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:I dunno. I mean as a 5'1" person I can technically lift my fully packed hard case carry-on into the overhead but it is sometimes a struggle. Thankfully there is always a guy around who likes to feel useful.

As a 5' petite woman, I have a hard time lifting those carryon spinner bags. A couple of times, a nice gentleman helped me. Once I asked the flight attendant, and they said no. lol

I can stand on the seat to get bag down, but if it's heavy, I have a harder time putting it up in the bin.

I am old enough where I recall flight attendance helped with bags. But, this was also when they were called "stewardess".
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:24     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is basic human decency and helping each other out a little bit too much to ask?


The problem is the “helpers” all tend to be on one side and the “takers” are all on the other. The takers rarely reciprocate and those are the ones usually asking where the “village” is.


Are you talking about the "taker" who is a 75 year old person who needs a hand getting their small bag uptop, so they can have the room under the seat in front of them to stretch out their prosthetic leg?


So check the bag with the sky cap. This isn’t rocket science. Again, air travel is not an entitlement.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:24     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is basic human decency and helping each other out a little bit too much to ask?


The problem is the “helpers” all tend to be on one side and the “takers” are all on the other. The takers rarely reciprocate and those are the ones usually asking where the “village” is.


Are you talking about the "taker" who is a 75 year old person who needs a hand getting their small bag uptop, so they can have the room under the seat in front of them to stretch out their prosthetic leg?

You clearly don't know anyone with prosthetics. You don't need to "stretch" out a prosthesis. Stop trying to co-opt other peoples struggles for your own laziness and entitlement.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:23     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:Of course some people need help stowing their bags. It is insane to expect everyone who travels to be young, fit, and able to reach high places. I'm pretty short and even I have had difficulty stowing my bag in a way that it doesn't immediately crash to the floor. Help a shorty out, if you can.


Who do you expect to help you?
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:20     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is basic human decency and helping each other out a little bit too much to ask?


The problem is the “helpers” all tend to be on one side and the “takers” are all on the other. The takers rarely reciprocate and those are the ones usually asking where the “village” is.


Are you talking about the "taker" who is a 75 year old person who needs a hand getting their small bag uptop, so they can have the room under the seat in front of them to stretch out their prosthetic leg?
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:12     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:Is basic human decency and helping each other out a little bit too much to ask?


The problem is the “helpers” all tend to be on one side and the “takers” are all on the other. The takers rarely reciprocate and those are the ones usually asking where the “village” is.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:12     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Don't ask FAs to do this for you . . . for your own good!

If you do ask an FA and they do it and pull a muscle or slip and get hurt, they can't fly. And if they can't fly, you can't fly. So everybody grab those bags you carefully lifted and stored and get the F off this plane!
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 15:55     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Is basic human decency and helping each other out a little bit too much to ask?
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 15:54     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
OP lobbying for enshittification of the world.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 15:53     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Just buy the kind that fit under the seat. And if not, check the bag. Air travel is not an entitlement.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 15:30     Subject: Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?
Anonymous wrote:Of course some people need help stowing their bags. It is insane to expect everyone who travels to be young, fit, and able to reach high places. I'm pretty short and even I have had difficulty stowing my bag in a way that it doesn't immediately crash to the floor. Help a shorty out, if you can.


There are bag handlers who put the bags in the belly of the plane. They are the help you are looking for. And it’s available to all passengers. Annoying everyone around you by being a damsel in distress is not required to travel with a bag.