Flights are a lot to tackle for solo travellers but when taking to an airport with a family, the pressure and responsibility rockets. With children’ documents to remember as well as their own, and separate luggage allowances, parents can often arrive at the transport terminal frazzled. The change in routine or unfamiliar surroundings may also cause tots to become more troublesome than usual, adding additional drama to a situation which ideally would be filled with holiday vibes. Yet one woman, juggling two toddler aged kids, has been subject to huge praise from Instagram users.
Her initial plight was capture in an image later posted to Instagram site, Passengershaming.
It shows the brunette with her arms outspread, being dragged by one youngster on his reins one way, while being pulled in the opposite direction by another charging towards a set of chairs.
The little boys appeared adorable in their their matching red tops and black jeans, yet it was clear they had a troublesome character.
They left their mother, who appeared to be travelling alone, with her right arm in an awarkwardly distorted position over her head.
The user uploaded the snap to the site with the caption: “Literally me the morning after NYE…”
Her plight attracted the sympathy of a number of Instagram users, with one commenting: ““This could be me with my new child! I always saw parents like this and always said OH HELL NO.
“Well now I am that parent. And that’s okay!”
Another empathised and put: “This is me! Hahaha.”
A third bluntly wrote: “Honestly, as a teacher who has seen how dumb and impulsive children can be in the best situations, I fully endorse child leashes.”
One then quipped: “It’s not her first rodeo,” in a light-hearted take on the scenes.
Meanwhile, a tacit consent to keeping a plane relatively tidy during a flight was thrown out of the window during one particular journey.
A messy passenger appeared to have a toilet roll party in the relatively confined space of the on-board bathroom, showing toilet paper everywhere.
They also appeared to decide to stuff the bin with their litter, with drinks bottles and paper towels spotted poking out.
The disarray would have made it impossible for anyone else to use the loo for the rest of the journey.
If there were no other bathroom on board, this could have posed a significant problem.
An image of the mess was uploaded to photo sharing site Instagram, with the caption clearly reflecting the anger present.
It raged: “PRO TRAVEL TIP: The purchase of an airline ticket does NOT entitle you to treat the $75M aircraft like a POS.”
