eh, that doesn't convince me one bit. the one time that really stands out in my mind, I was at the gate two hours early, and the flight was neither scheduled to be full nor actually full.. and the crew never told the gate agent that there was a weight restriction. I am always polite to gate agents as I am aware that they can be helpful or unhelpful to me. I personally think this kind of situation can only be attributed to a gate agent being a jerk. It's not like accomodating me would've delayed the flight one bit, since I had been at the gate area for two hours. In fact, her denying me was what delayed the flight because now the captain had to come upstairs to resolve the situation.