During the last four years of my police career I would regularly fly back and forth from Washington DC several times a year. Sometimes I imagined that when the pilots were doing their pre-flight inspections they noticed the extra heavy load on the tires right under my seat…
NOTE: On these flights I typically had a seat in the back of the plane, like “row 30.” This is because the government was buying my tickets. After a few times, I started paying out of my pocket for seating upgrades.