You could see he was thinking "I'll be damned if I'm going to unpack all that and pack it back up". So he didn't, and just waved me along.
You are lucky :-) If you do get your hand luggage checked like that, they aren't the ones packing it back up; you are. I discovered this the hard way when rushing to make a 2 hour transfer at Atlanta and I only barely made it..
You are lucky :-) If you do get your hand luggage checked like that, they aren't the ones packing it back up; you are. I discovered this the hard way when rushing to make a 2 hour transfer at Atlanta and I only barely made it..