I was once asked [by a lady who had firmly planted herself in the aisle as she was in the second row of seats from the front] if I wouldn't mind getting her "luggage" down from the overhead...
IT WAS A
POTPLANT
Approx 3' bent in there, spilling loam all over the place with one of those thick heavy painted planters, "hang on says I, I'll just try from this side; nope; see ya !"