50 Hilarious Tweets About Travel That Definitely Go the Distance

Every traveler has been there — after months of meticulous planning and mentally preparing to deal with the inevitable family drama, it’s finally time to embark on your trip home for the holidays. Slightly panicked about missing your flight, you decide to play it safe, leaving for the airport three hours before your scheduled takeoff. Yet after checking your bags, removing your shoes and explaining to the TSA agent that, no, your iPad isn’t a weapon of mass destruction, you arrive at your gate to make a harrowing discovery: You still have two and a half hours before boarding. 

Thankfully, there’s a better way to kill time than spending $40 on a combo meal at the nearest restaurant: connecting with your fellow man. So, from the mystery of your gate number to the joy of watching a movie through the crevice of airplane seats, here are some hilarious, painfully relatable tweets to help your flight fly by.