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The Michelin Man technique

If you'd like a good laugh, grab a copy of today's Weekend Edition Wall Street Journal (or read it at your local library). There is an article about how some travelers are using the technique of wearing several layers of underwear, shirts, and stuffing their pockets, etc. to meet the low-weight bag requirements on some budget airlines. One guy referred to stuffing his cargo pants with items rolled a la ROTC style.

Another guy mentioned buying a $25 box of chocolates, presenting it to the head flight attendant on an economy line with wishes for a good flight, acknowledging they work hard: The result, she presented him a steak dinner from First Class and poured wine for him throughout the flight.

I remember years and years ago a printed two-panel comic showed a really obese man boarding a plane, then the second panel showed the same guy as thin as a rail with a huge stack of removed clothing next to him.

Posted by
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I find it so hot on planes that the thought of anything other than a polo shirt and preferably shorts but will tolerate jeans or trousers to be horrendous.

Posted by
23177 posts

I also think those kinds of articles are interesting but not practical and rarely practiced by anyone. In this day and age, the chocolates might get tossed for fear of what might be in the chocolates. Save you money.

Posted by
419 posts

There was a funny video on YouTube of a group of women who overpacked for their budget airline flight. They’re at the boarding gate. Their suitcases are all open with cloths spewing out and they’re desperately trying to put on as many cloths as they can.

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156 posts

I just can’t go along with that strategy, and have never seen it in practice, either. I think I’d feel like I was in a straitjacket, which can’t be comfortable on a four hour flight....

Posted by
8375 posts

I think some guy recently was thrown off a flight (maybe Spirit?) for wearing a huge amount of clothes to avoid the checked bag fee.