If you bag is on the plane and you are not, and you know that there is not a bomb on the plane, you wave bye-bye to the bag and catch up to it later. There is no hazard in letting the bag go, because you know there is no bomb in the bag.
Trying to get your bag back by discussing the possibilities of bombs in bags with a gate agent is just abusing the TSA rules for your own convenience. You are not preventing a hazard. You are just trying to get them to turn the plane around because you want your bag, and are speculating about things that make TSA types very nervous in order to do it.
She should just get over herself and catch up with the bag later. No big deal.
Even better, she should endeavor to get to the gate on time, and the whole problem could have been avoided.
Six figure income, executive, sorta bi-coastal...(East/Gulf?), not unattractive if she'd behave...Yeah, that's my take, too. A self-important yuppie on a hissy fit cuz sne didn't get her way.
Your post absolutely matches my position on this.
I think where I differ with a lot of people here is not about whether what she did was wrong. I think we all believe it is. It is the apparent loss of civility from our culture - on both sides of such issues. I think there should be consequences to her, just as there are to me when I get caught speeding. But as with my speeding ticket, she should pay those consequences and be able to get on with life.
And like with my ticket, if I get too many I have demonstrated a pattern and lose my license. Likewise with her, if she demonstrates a pattern, she should lose her right to fly.
Not necessarily and it can be a big deal. Depending on what country you flying from and what country you are flying too you may be waving goodbye to your bag for good if it is unattended.
With todays security concerns a bag arriving in certain countries without its owner into another country is often detained or disposed of.