Not so trivial and VERY surly.
Fellow travelers who check their bags make me surly. I've been traveling heavily internationally for over 30 years. I know the drill. I can go a month, from boardroom to beach, with one carry-on bag plus my office backpack.
We just finished up a week in Costa Rica. We had a great time. We rented a huge Air bnb on the beach in Santa Teresa, and had a wonderful time. Santa Teresa is one of my favorite places in the world.
Before we left, I warned people not to check bags. I told them we were going to the beach, and minimal clothes are required, plus we could do laundry. I even sent them the clip from Up in the Air where Clooney tells Kendrick how idiotic she is for bringing a huge suitcase. Did they listen? No. Not any of them.
Despite a lifetime of watching me effectively travel with no checked bags, my three adult kids, all three spouses, and my wife all checked bags.
I give my oldest daughter a pass because they have a baby.
Yesterday we get to Liberia airport and there's a small private plane crash on the runway. Nothing major, no injuries, but it shut the airport for 3 hours. No incoming or outgoing flights. There's only one runway, so all of the flights stacked up. My oldest and her husband and daughter were able to get out on SWA. My son and his wife were able to get out on SWA. But the flight to IAH for my wife, my daughter, SIL, and me was cancelled.
I scrambled and got us on a flight today. And got a hotel for the night. And got a driver to take us to the hotel and back to the airport.
The problem was that the other three (wife, daughter, and SIL) checked bags. I waited for 2 hours for them to get their bags before we could go to the hotel. The bags never came. I stayed on hold for an hour with United baggage services who told us they couldn't help us. We got here and I had to stay in line to check in and try to figure out where the bags are. They're not even my bags and, frankly, I hope they are lost forever.
Untold anxiety from all, hours and hours of waiting. For absolutely no reason. There was no reason to check bags.
I'm sitting here with my bags, wearing clean clothes. They're all miserable, wearing the dirty clothes from yesterday and super stressed about their stupid bags.
And I'm the asshole.