For too long, travel-weary airline passengers have abused the baggage claim area to shave off those precious seconds that their pilots couldn't. Two many bags have cruised around the carousel at agonizingly slow speeds past their hapless owners who would have to put a hard elbow into another oblivious traveler's spleen to get to it. All because that oblivious traveler has stolen a spot 3 inches from the baggage claim. Stolen it from you. Stolen it from me. Stolen it from America! From this day forward it should be our duty to implore our local airports to spend the cost of two cups of Starbucks on paint to put in a simple "Do-Not-Cross-Until-Your-Bag-is-Here" line around the baggage claim. The rules are simple. Stand behind the line and only cross when your bag(s) or their mistaken identical twins come around the bend at 2 MPH. This keeps the area clear so that the passengers who didn't sprint to the carousel are still able to see their bags (their bags are probably the first ones off anyway but that's karma). Also, this avoids the need to swing my suitcase into your jaw when I pull it off because you're hovering too close to me looking for your Louis Vuitton knock-off. The consequences are simple. If you decide to wait inside this line and disobey airport protocol, your bag should be confiscated and held until you are the last passenger, purely out of principle. Preferably on the carousel itself. If that one guy's parents forget about his flight and he's waiting 2 hours for them to pick him up, "Do Not Cross" violator should have to wait his turn (dead last). If it were up to me, violators should have to stand through one of the TSA body massages but that's out of my control. The point is simple. Your bag will slide down when it slides down. You just got off a 3 hour flight from Dallas and you can wait the 5 seconds longer it would take to stand 5 feet farther from the carousel. Odds are that your bag will never be the first one off and your girlfriend can afford to go around the pickup loop one more time if it means I don't have to put my suitcase wheels into a place that's probably pretty valuable to you. And her. We must all preach patience at the baggage claim and petition our local airports to include a simple line around the carousels. The cost of change is low and the cost of inaction is unbearable.