The Whirly Birds

This is what I call the group of people that are flying first class that will stand there 45 minutes prior to boarding, looking board and impatient.  WTH?  So your flying first class.  Big deal.  I get upgraded frequently, but I'm not going to stand there pretentiously for 40 minutes until the flight gets boarded.

The only exception for this is if you are in a bulkhead seat (row 1)  In the bulkhead, there is no place to put a small bag underneath you.  If you have 2 bags like most business travelers do, you have to fit both up top.  If you have 4 people that have that situation, that means 8 bags.  There's not enough room for 8 bags in the overhead above you, so you have to go back a row or two, which makes you have to become a salmon once they pull up the gate to go back and get your bags.

I always thought that perhaps these were bulkheaders.  Nope.  Maybe once or twice, but most times they are in rows 2-4.  I honestly don't know why they get up there early.  It looks pretentious.  Maybe there's something that I don't know, but it just looks silly to me.

Here's a group that stood there for 30 minutes.  Don't they look important.