I almost did just flying into DFW last night in the middle of a thunderstorm. Fucking American Airlines and their need to stay on schedule or save money or whatever it is that drives them to make people lose their shit on a plane that bounces all over the sky on 2 attempts to land in a storm.

I definitely (kind of) did. I didn’t find out until I got to the airport that my flight had been cancelled, and had to argue with the guy to put me on a new flight, seeing as how I had booked the ticket about 6 months prior. Then he told me that I would have to wait about 5 more hours to go through security, etc., and…

In August we’re flying to AZ from IL with our one year old. I’m so fucking terrified he’s going to have a nuclear meltdown.

I had to look at some woman’s skanky feet for 13 hours, which she had propped up against the bulk head (is that what that partition is called?) in my direct line of sight (I sat next to her). JUST WEAR SOME DAMN SOCKS. Also, planes are so gross, why expose more bare skin to them? Ugh people.

I usually cry on the inside. Yesterday I was trying to keep it together when the woman next to me grabbed me. She was crying and begged me to talk to her because she was so scared. So I had to pretend I wasn't scared which actually made me less scared!

After years of airport breakdowns I’ve finally learned to capitalize on them and now I get seat upgrades and free mini bottles of booze. Flying is stressful AF.

It’s okay. Thanks! I keep hoping it will get better. It’s so firmly entrenched in there. And I used to love to fly. I dunno what happened.

TRUTH. My worst experience in an airport (I’ve been pretty lucky thus far, I’ll admit) was sitting in the waiting area sort of zoning out with my headphones on, and then....wondering what the heck that gross new smell is....and realizing the guy sitting across from me had taken off his shoes.

Thatz no good. My feet are usually stink free & I like to take off my shoes for long flights.

Fucking seriously though. Flying standby with a 40 year old man child who likes his Crown Royal.......

To say that I am prone to panic attacks pre-flight is an understatement.

That's exactly why I have anti anxiety pills. Airports and planes scare me.

You mean get inside a big metal box that weighs hundreds of tons and is filled with one of the most flammable liquids ever produced?Then, be strapped in as it defies gravity to rise over a mile into the air leaving all those inside with nothing to do but die a fiery death if something goes horribly wrong?

I once started WEEPING not in an airport but on the plane when I learnt that the flight was 14 not 7 hours. I had mixed up the order of flights so I thought the first flight was 7, the second 14 and man. It was intense. I mean planes are like this weird inbetween liminal space where time is fucked up anyway, but on…

To be honest, I have a phobia about flying. So, basically, I hold it together through the line because you can’t look too unhinged while being searched for weapons, but once inside, I cry the entire time, because I firmly and irrationally believe I’m going to die in the next few hours as the plane goes hurtling into…

Yep he’s 100% correct.

My last three times in an airport have coincided with multiple airport staff having to get me tissues and offer me things because I was crying so hard I was hyperventilating.

Agreed, he’s right. And it was awfully cute of him to say so.

I left my ring in a bathroom at the airport and didn’t realize it until the plane was almost done boarding. SO SAD. Almost cried. I managed to run back and naturally it was gone, but my plane wasn’t so there’s a small upside.

Airports are a particular nightmare for people on the autism spectrum, like Boyle. One of my dear friends is a brilliant academic who’s got some serious Asperger’s; airports are a special kind of hell for her.