Meet Gel Rodriguez, your new icon and inspiration.
Gel, from the Phillippines, arrived at the check in counter at the airport, she was told that her hand luggage was over the weight allowance and she would need to pay a fee.
Her carry-on luggage weighed 9kg, quite a bit over the 7kg limit.
Rather than just meekly accepting the charges, Gel took action.
She layered on as many of her clothes as she could, putting trousers on over each other and wearing more than five tops.
In total she managed to dress herself in 2.5kg of clothing, reducing the weight of her luggage to 6.5kg – no fee required.
Gel shared a photo of herself proudly standing in the airport while wearing a load of clothes, which was promptly shared more than 20,000 times and flooded with comments praising her genius.
Is this something we could recommend trying yourself? Absolutely not. Think about how uncomfortable it would be to sit on a long-haul flight wearing seven pairs of trousers. Think of the sweat.
But we do commend Gel for taking a stand against those far too strict baggage rules.
Gel told Vice: ‘I didn’t want to pay the fee for the excess baggage because it was only 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs).’
Gel is glad she avoided the fees, but wouldn’t suggest anyone copies her travel hack. It wasn’t much fun.
‘It was really hot,’ she said. ‘I don’t recommend other people do it.’
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