Airports are a necessary evil – we’re willing to put up with them because we love going new places (and coming home, too), but that doesn’t mean we have to like them.
And it doesn’t mean we can’t recognize these 12 truths that pretty much prove when we’re at the airport, we might as well be in actual purgatory.
12. Flames, shooting out the sides of my face.
a man in the airport accidentally dropped his heavy luggage on my leg. he said “oops” & i said “oh sorry!thank you” & those are the two genders
— keely flaherty (@keelyflaherty) May 21, 2019
11. The rest of us are trying not to have a heart attack here.
https://twitter.com/Scaachi/status/1017133547746971649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1017133547746971649&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftweets-airport-hell_l_5d23d1f8e4b0583e48264005
10. Sometimes keeping your mouth shut is just all too much.
https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/949739542445199361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E949739542445199361&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftweets-airport-hell_l_5d23d1f8e4b0583e48264005
9. Just no.
can’t stop thinking about the time I watched a woman try to put her dog through the airport security scanner and the tsa agent picked it up and was like “ma’am no”
— sloane (sîpihkopiyesîs) 🍉 (@cottoncandaddy) July 1, 2019
8. Why does this happen?
me before going through security at airport: what if i accidentally have a gun
— Natalie (@jbfan911) June 21, 2019
7. It would be funnier if people would stop believing it.
https://twitter.com/Scaachi/status/1018166735684362240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1018166735684362240&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftweets-airport-hell_l_5d23d1f8e4b0583e48264005
6. I got this.
https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/686309668143104000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E686309668143104000&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftweets-airport-hell_l_5d23d1f8e4b0583e48264005
5. Too many questions.
https://twitter.com/chelseanachman/status/1122531233593008128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1122531233593008128&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftweets-airport-hell_l_5d23d1f8e4b0583e48264005
4. Hey, you gotta entertain yourself somehow.
My hobbies include: watching families in the airport and deciding what music goes under the movie trailer for the bad vacation they're just starting.
— Elizabeth Hackett (@LizHackett) December 20, 2017
3. We need a system, people!
Dear airport security, can you make up your mind. Does my bag go in the tray or not?!
— Lilly (@Lilly) November 14, 2017
2. Point?
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/581613787528167424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E581613787528167424&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftweets-airport-hell_l_5d23d1f8e4b0583e48264005
1. Just out there flaunting it, too.
https://twitter.com/bimadew/status/1004670395507707904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1004670395507707904&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftweets-airport-hell_l_5d23d1f8e4b0583e48264005
I hope all of the hand sanitizer dispensers are full on your next trip!