How to piss me off

In a word: incompetence.

Somehow, Southwest Airlines managed to lose my baggage between Midland/Odessa and LAX.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that people carry ludicrously big bags onto planes, spending several minutes awkwardly shoving oversized lumps into overhead bins, crassly crushing the coats and small briefcases the space was intended for.

It looks dumb, it holds up the line, and its a blatant misuse of the overhead bins and disregard for the flying regulations. I wish airlines would enforce their carry-on size limit rules.

And I don’t want to be a hypocrite, so I always check my bag.

But the fact of the matter is that every time they lose a bag…which for me is twice this past year…they validate the carry-everything-on method.

And it makes me mad because it can’t be that hard to put a (clearly labeled) bag onto a plane going to the right place. The huge tag says “LAX.” Don’t put it on a plane to Boston. It’s that simple.