Yesterday, I had one of the worst check-ins I've ever had. It all originated with a claim on the AA website that if I travel to Pòtoprens, I could check two bags of up to 50 lbs, plus a third bag if I gave them $100. Which, hey, I was prepared to do. I had a big donation of children's clothes and other stuff that I was trying to bring down. Except that, at the airport, they informed me that that allowance was under a summer embargo. "If you read this other paragraph over here, you'd see that you were limited to just two bags from June 5th to August." Great. That doesn't really help me now that I'm sitting here at the airport with three bags. As I said, I was prepared to pay a fee to get the damn bag on the plane. But no.