Got stuck in Florida trying to get back to NY because of a snowstorm... had to check into a hotel using my fake because everywhere else was booked and you had to be 21 to get a room!!
Gretchen if you used boxes, the wrapping would look way nearer. And, you can save them and use them for other years too. Most stores have them for free during the holiday season.
My craziest airport experience was when my family was moving across the country, so we had to bring our cats on the plane with us. They made us carry them through security and my cat ran through the entire airport! I thought he was gone forever and then this old man ended up cornering him and we got him back luckily! Sadly, the cats meowed the entire 4 hour flight in their carriers under our seats though 😂
Two things: wrapping your presents on the bed gave me so much anxiety. Use the floor to make them neater! Other thing is in the same way with strawberries. Biting into it near the stem hurts my sensitive teeth.
My craziest experience is when I was about 8 years old and my family was going to Disney World for spring break. We were meeting my grandparents at Disney, and they were already there. Unfortunately, a huge snowstorm hit Wisconsin where I live, and our morning flight kept getting delayed and delayed. We waited on the plane/ in the airport all day until they finally canceled the flight late at night (like Max's flight). We had to fly out to Orlando the next morning and missed multiple days with my grandparents/ being in Disney. Midwest winters suck man!
Over the summer my friends and I were at the airport in Montreal trying to get back to Newark but our flight got canceled and no other flights were available. We couldn't rent a car or go on a train because they wouldn't cross the borders. So, we ended up getting on a greyhound from Montreal airport to New york city and were traveling for over 40 hours.
Qotd: I honestly don’t fly that much but something my parents told me from when I was little: we were going to cuba to go visit family (my moms side of the fam was all born there and moved to the us when they were young) and they pulled aside my dad (who was born here) and said that he wasn’t allowed to go because of the travel bans that they had in place and were extremely adamant that he was not going to be allowed to board even though he had a ticket and everything so we were not willing to leave just him here and nearly canceled everything but then they realized that he could go because he was married to my mother and all was well and I got to spend weeks on the clear beaches on the coast of Cuba w all my fam
My craziest experience was flying from Jamaica, to Miami, back to Boston. We were supposed to get back to Boston in the early morning hours of Friday. But something was working with the plane and we had a huge delay. They had to have a new plane come all the way to Jamaica. Luckily, the airport was super sweet and provided tons of free food. We left at 8pm that night, landed in Miami in the wee hours of the morning, and spent the night in Miami, before flying to NY, and then back to Boston.
In 2016, I was flying from chicago to switzerland and within an hour before we were supposed to take off a huge rainstorm came in and it torrential rained. They still put us on the plan though but we just chilled in line to the runway for a good 3 hours until the stormed cleared up. I missed my connecting flight from switzerland to venice so had to chill at an airport in switzerland for half a day until a flight opened up.
A few years ago, my boyfriend and I were traveling to CA to go visit family over winter break, and our flight was supposed to take off at like 8 am, but there was a massive snowstorm. We still went to the airport because our flight wasn't canceled or delayed and we even boarded the plane maybe 30-45 mins late. We then proceeded to sit at the gate for 2 hours. They finally told us that we had to get off the plane because the early morning flights hadn't taken off yet, and they had to deplane those passengers who had been on planes for close to 5 hours, so we went back into the terminal. Our departure time kept getting pushed back by an hour or so for the next 7-8 hours of us sitting at the airport, and no one was saying anything. My sister, who was a flight attendant for a different airline, told me to get on the phone with the airline to get us on a different flight on a different day (we finally did after 2 hours on the phone with them). Around the same time, our city had also put out a travel restriction, so we couldn't even get out of the airport if we wanted to leave due to blizzard-like conditions. All of the restaurants and shops began selling out of food after a few hours because they only had a limited supply and they couldn't get food into the terminal because of the travel restrictions. 10 hours after our plane was supposed to take off, our airline carrier canceled all the flights that day and told us to all go to baggage claim to re-book tickets and pick up our bags. We got down to baggage claim, and they started pulling bags from the planes, but our entire flight remained after they had unloaded "all" of the planes, only to find out they didn't know where our plane was left on the tarmac! We sat there for the next 2 hours while they tried to locate our plane before we finally just left and told them to deliver our bags once they found the plane. Meanwhile, I had started to come down with the flu just after we had gotten off the plane and then had to sit in the airport, sick for another 9-10 hours before finally going home.
I am in a really difficult season of life right now and it really sucks. But I am trying to be thankful throughout the hard times and you are one of the things I am thankful for. You always lift my mood and are really an inspiration. Thank you for being you.
This is too much for me to handle!!!! I just had such a fun night with all my friends and new people which is awesome but then I got hone and just broke down cause I’m strugglingggggg. Literally you are such an inspiration and idol and I loveeee you so much ❤️❤️
I go to school at Lehigh University which is super close to Allentown! If you ever visit Max you guys have to go to The Brick or Urbano for dinner and walk around North Bethlehem. It is always decorated so pretty!
I was on my way to study abroad. Flight delayed 3 hours. Flew over Nova Scotia (On my way to UK), the steering broke on the plane. Emergency landed in JFK after turning around. Flight then cancelled. Couldn’t hv our luggage. Got driven to a hotel in LI, stayed 24 hours. Got on the broken plane next day. Waited 6 hours on Tarmac. Finally left, got to layover, missed connection. Waited 8 more hours. Then got to destination. Luggage was missing for 5 days.
One time I was flying home from Nashville to Newark and they let me pre-board because I’m allergic to nuts and they let me wipe my seat down. So my seat neighbors board and get settled and they pull out the biggest bag of granola with all sorts of nuts, my epi was in my bag but I asked the flight attendant to move, there was plenty of seats in economy but she was so horrified they bumped me to empty first class seat. Awful but also kinda awesome outcome
THIS AIRPORT STORY IS CRAZY AND FUNNY! So I was applying to go to the United States Naval Academy for my undergrad education. My application was competitive so I was given an opportunity to see the academy for myself. The Academy payed for my ticket so that means they also scheduled the flight! I ended up being flown from SEATAC to some airport in/around Arlington, Virginia when the Academy is in Annapolis, Maryland. For some reason I didn’t make that connection until I was on the phone with the other applicants that I was supposed to meet up and carpool to the academy with. I had a very stressful conversation with some other applicant who did their best to try and find me...Turns out the admissions officers accidentally sent me to the wrong airport and on top of that couldn’t send someone to pick me up so I had to pay for a taxi from the Arlington, VA airport to the front gates of the academy in Annapolis, MD. It was also raining super freaking hard so I was running through the rain carrying a cloth suitcase, big backpack, and a duffel bag carry on! Needless to say all of my stuff got absolutely soaked and I hadn’t eaten since at least 24 hrs beforehand!! I bought an EXQUISITE chick fil a meal but when I went to eat it in the taxi, the driver told me I couldn’t eat in the car....so I was hangry, tired, and pissed off. It ended up ok though. I was reimbursed for the taxi bill and one of the midshipman at the academy saw I was in distress so helped me carry some stuff and another one payed for my dinner.
My crazy airport story would be the one where i flew the first time alone, i was going to start my exchange year in PA, and I had to fly from Barcelona to Pittsburgh, and my first flight got 4 hrs delayed, and that made me lose my connection flight at newark. I was so lost😅 I had an eventful start for my exchange year
I was flying to Ft. Lauderdale to go on a cruise with my best friend. We got delayed like 7 hours finally got to leave and then the plane we were on was smaller than they expected well anyways long story short we went to take off we heard a loud popping sound and then saw blue smoke we knew that it was not right well when we landed in Florida they took the plane straight into maintenance. It was one of the craziest fearful experiences when it comes to flying.
Omg my family and I were traveling together to TX from NY and had a connection flight in Atlanta. We left late so we only had about 30 minutes to get all the way through the airport at the time, lol ATL IS HUGE! And my little sister was 2 at the time so you just see my mom running with this car seat on her back, and my twin sister rolling my little sister on her suitcase sprinting through the airport. We made it just on time😂
My craziest airport experience was traveling home from a trip to Munich last year. I got there 3 hours early and because of the longest security line of my life I didn't go through it myself til 15 min before my flight...I almost just gave up then because I figured there was no shot I was making it because the airport is so big and my gate was really far but I called the airline and they told me every single flight back was full the rest of the day and I was traveling alone. (I also couldn't talk to staff and leave the line because I was alone) I ran across the giant airport and somehow made it (while hearing my name called on the loudspeaker) seriously out of a movie scene!
Craziest experience was definitely when I was flying into LAX and right before landing, the plane was flying in circles. We didn’t know what was going on until someone with internet connection said there was a shooting at LAX and we couldn’t land because the airport was shut down so we were diverted to Las Vegas and couldn’t get a connecting flight that day so we rented a car and drove!!
My craziest flight story was freshman year of high school the freshman class (96 people) all we’re flying from Philly to Disney for a class trip and we had to get to our school at 5am for an 8am flight which ended up getting cancelled so then the travel agent found a open flight with no one on it through the Atlantic City airport which has 2 gates and 1 restaurant and the entire class was stuck there from around 8am to when our flight was supposed to take off at 6pm and then it ended up getting delayed again till 9 so we were in the airport for over 12 hours
Watching ur vlogs before bed>>> ALSO can you make a video about long distance. My bf is studying aboard next semester and it’s slowly hitting me already :(
A: So basically this summer I stuck in martha’s vinyard, because my flight was an hour later than my two friends flights but then mine got cancelled so i was stuck alone, but then one of the small airplanes (6 people) came to take some people off the island back to boston and I got to ride in the copilot seat! once i got to boston i rebooked everything and made it to meet my family for another vacation! so yeah everything workout but it was soooo stressful at the time :)
I was flying from Albany, Ny to Florida. Had a 10 hour delay ( they didn’t tell us why tho) we finally boarded the plane and got to the run way and then they tell us that it was so cold outside the main engine froze up so they were gonna try and fly us to Florida on the back up engine. So we all just hoped we would make it there alive!
QOTD: I was in Rome flying to Florence on a late night flight that had already been delayed two hours + plane change + pilot change... I went to sleep on the plane and when I woke up the pilot said we were landing in a different city and so I was stranded in a tiny airport in Italy for a night. That same trip the unions were striking so all my flights were cancelled and I had to get home via train then American Airlines. ah!
Got stuck in Ft. Lauderdale trying to get to Nicaragua and eventually we ended up having to take a cab 2 hours to Miami to get a flight from there. The airline gave us a voucher for the cab so we didn't have to pay but the cab attendant was giving us a hard time about it because the airline worker didn't sign it so I took it back, signed it myself and handed it to her (it was like 2am, I was desperate lol) and she let us use it!
I'm late to the game but my craziest airplane horror story was my family was actually in a plane "crash" when we were landing at our destination. The plane was taxi-ing to the gate at the airport and one of the gas tank trucks was outside of the lines and the tip of our plane wing ended up hitting the truck. We sat on the blacktop for AN HOUR and then had to exit the plane there! It was quite a welcome to Alabama. :)
Omg I was on a trip to Aspen, CO with my cousins as their babysitter, and we were trying to fly home so I could get back for school and the airport lost air control so they couldn’t have planes land or take off after 4pm because their technology that detects planes coming overhead was broken so they were doing everything by sight and it was either wait in aspen for 3 days for new flights and sleep in a movie theater since all hotels were booked already, or drive in a bus for 6 hours around to Denver and take 2 flights to get back to California hahaha
you should use a sponge or brush maybe to put on the tanning face drops, not sure if it would work but just a thought so you don't have to worry about cheeto fingers hahah
I was flying from Tampa Fl to Roanoke Va and we arrived fine and were flying over the airport and they decided that it was too foggy to land so they flew us back to Tampa and we had to go out the next morning! We were already there!!!
My boyfriend and I were supposed to fly home to philly from New Orleans after our week long cruise. The flight was canceled and they couldn’t get us out until THREE DAYS LATER. So we rented a car and drove 14 hours from New Orleans to Philadelphia 🙃
So the craziest flight experience happened for me when I was on my way home from a trip in Florida for my birthday this year! We flew Spirit and obviously heard mixed reviews but the flight to Florida was totally fine but the way back was a nightmare! We were flying out of Orlando to come home late afternoon so we got to the airport early afternoon. The flight ended up getting delayed then pushed back up approximately 5 times, there were people waiting from a flight that got cancelled earlier in the morning to fly out of our flight, they gave us so many different excuses and it was super frustrating. They ended up cancelling the flight three hours after we were supposed to LAND because the pilot they FLEW IN (because they originally DIDN’T HAVE A CREW FOR OUR FLIGHT) would be over his flying hours for the day if he were to complete our flight. SO ANNOYING. And obviously the airport staff and Spirit customer service were not helpful whatsoever so we ended up renting a car and driving 13 hours to get home with people we met while we were waiting 😂 SUCH a headache but it makes for an awesome story!
Lol going to college nationals for cheerleading we had a flight out of our local airport. We got there 2 hours early and the second we walked in the door it was delayed 2 hours then kept getting pushed back AGAIN every hour. The plane we were supposed to be on hadn't even left florida to come to massachusetts (we had been waiting for 5 hours at this point) and we had to compete in less than 12 hours SO the airline sent cabs to the airport we were at and we had an hour drive to boston with all the cab drivers going like 100 mph to get us to our flight in time. Finally got to Logan & that flight was delayed too of course. We got to nationals at like 5 am slept for 4 hours and got up to compete 😭
I had to wait two hours before we took off one time, we just sat in the plane forever, another time i was flying into Fiji and as we were landing the plane 100% tipped sideways like 45degrees to the right really quick right before we touched, and i swear we were gonna die, but we lived so amen
no horror stories for the airport. i always over prepare because flying makes me anxious. i did want to say that you saying you wanted a cookie and then you ate 3 is a whole MOOD lol. i feel the same way about nilla wafers except i eat the whole box 😬
Not really a horror story but at 17 I caught a flight to visit my friend for the day and was supposed to fly back at 6pm that night and my flight was delayed like four times and at 9pm it was cancelled because of fog. And because it was a weather thing the airline said it wasn’t their fault so no one got accomodation unless they had insurance which I didn’t. So I cried and this lady came up and was like I’m a teacher at this school I have my teacher ID I have insurance so they’re going to give me a room if you wanted to share, I declined. And I didn’t have a phone charger or much money bc I was only supposed to be there for the day and it was 9:30pm so didn’t want to catch the bus back to the city by myself. So I walked to the hotel that’s basically attached to the airport but they were full. So I stayed at the airport overnight. And then the other flight they put me on for 8am the next day was delayed till 11am. So I was camped out in the airport by myself for 16hours lmao
LOL I once had wayyy to much in my carry on that it wouldn’t fit in the overhead space. The flight attendant and two other passengers tried to help me squeeze it but it still wouldn’t fit. The flight attendant ended up having to give me a bag, and on the floor of the plane I took out a bunch of my clothes to put in the bag so everything will fit while everyone waited... finally after taking things out but luggage fit in the overhead space and EVERYONE STARTED CLAPPING LMAO
Craziest airport story was I was on vacation in the Dominican with some friends and on my way back to Canada. They asked where my travel companion was and the girl they asked about never came on the trip. They then searched my luggage before the security that searched my bags asking me out. A total nightmare
my cousins were dropping me off at the airport and the gate to my flight closed at 7:30 am....they got me there at 7:20 i was waiting in line for security hearing my name called and i quickly booked it to my gate after security not wearing any shoes or anything lol, the gates were closed but they still let me on :D it was funny but stressful at the same time
My craziest airport story was my fault not the airline but its funny. I was going in my first trip with my friends to Colombia and I was flying alone and meeting my friends in 24 hrs. I was in the gate waiting and I decide to go to the bathroom and I dropped my phone in the toilet and it died instantly. I started crying bc I didn't have anyway of letting my friends or family know. So I approach people (ugly crying) to ask for their phones to call my mom and no one wanted to give it to me. Eventually I call my mom and she decided to go back and give me her phone for my trip (god bless her, it was her birthday), but I was already at the gate and my flight was boarding in 20 min. But I cried to the people in security and customs to let me go out again and get the phone. Then in Colombia my mom's phone was stolen from me.
this past Thanksgiving I was trying to get to Philly from Montreal. I boarded my what should have been direct flight, after being on the flight for an hour they told us the plane was broken and we couldnt take off. then the door was broken so we spent an extra hour on the plane. Once I got off I ended up being re booked on an Air Canada flight going from Montreal to Toronto then Toronto to Philly (with a 3 hour layover). Since I was going from flying international to local I had to re go through security so I had to throw away the bottle of wine I had bought as a present. American Airlines didnt even give me a food coupon to say sorry. Then the flight to Toronto had such bad turbulence we didnt get snacks or drinks. Finally I made it to my TO then got on my plane and laded in PA 7 hours later then execpted and ended up being in airports and on planes for a total of 14 hours that day. Sorry for the long paragraph haha
I was going to Europe for the 1st time with my mom & sister& v long story short we drove to the airport, flight 1/2 was delayed and we didn't think we'd make the connection so got tix for the next day, drove home, turned around to drive back bc someone thought we could make it, found out our tix were gone, drove back home, found out the next day we would've made our connection after all.
I was flying for the first time ever I was 15 and I was alone and some man behind me had a baby that was screaming and ended up the baby needed a dipper change and then instead of changing him before we even boarded the plane he decided to change him as we were taking off and the poopy dipper went EVERYWHERE so we had to turn around and land and change planes.......so so so bad. Ps I know it’s gross but is the craziest plane ride I have ever had
An airline lost my wheelchair. I got to Myrtle Beach but my wheelchair didn’t. (I can’t walk). I had to use a loaner chair until they could find my chair and send it to me. They forgot to load my chair on the plane. It came to me late that night. Fun fact: that wheelchair went to New York before it got to me. I’ve never been to New York.
My craziest experience was the day I was supposed to come home from studying abroad.. our first flight out of Italy couldn’t land at the airport to get us so we had to be bussed to another city, then missed our connecting flight in Paris back to Boston .. had to stay overnight in Paris then the flight the next day got delayed ... finally made it home but my luggage was in stuck in Paris for 5 days 😂
had FOUR flights cancelled in one day!! my original flight got cancelled and they just kept re booking us!! After 12 hours in the airport we had to drive from florida to ATL! arrived in ATL at 4am and had to wake up at 6 for my competition😭 rip
my craziest airport experience was being quarantined for 7 hours in atlanta and missing my connecting flight because they thought i had ebola🤠 i was put into a special room and they took a lot of my blood! so fun! (btw i did not have ebola) i was 12.
I was flying from jfk to la and I had the middle seat. The lady on my left near the window was fast asleep and snoring loudly. I thought great this is what I have to listen to the entire flight...ugh!!! Wait for it...it gets worse. After we took off and they had started serving drinks she woke up and said she was going to 🤢!!! I told the guy to my right and we both jumped out of our seats. I told a flight attendant who just looked at me. I told her I couldn’t sit next to this lady if she was going to 🤢. I 🤮 just hearing someone 🤢. The guy to my right was nice enough to find me another seat but they made him stay where he was. The lady threw up the entire 6 hour flight! I watched her run to the rest room the entire flight. Sorry this was so graphic but it really was the worst flight I was on.
Sitting on the tarmac for 4 hours and being told you can’t get out of your seat cause it’s a live tarmac. Ridiculous! My son had to go the bathroom and after raising a stink they allowed him to get up and go to the bathroom.
When I was 9 we went to Ireland and my family’s tickets were split across the isle so my dad and brother were on the other side and my mom and i were on one side so i ended up sitting next to a priest (which was so cool because i had made my communion the year before so I was excited) and my mom. The priest was drinking wine and spilled it all over me 😂😂😂😂
Q~ I was in Arizona with my team and we had a connecting flight in Georgia to come back home and the flight was at 5 and got delayed till 2 am and then got cancelled so my team at that moment rented a van and drove 5 hours home and i got home at liek 8 and then went to school tahts day but late lol
I was traveling alone for the first time ever and my flight was to take off at 2:15 got delayed until 5:30, then they said around 5pm were boarding early and everyone lined up only for them to tell us there was no pilot. We were then delayed until 7:15. When we finally boarded we had another 40 minute delay because of an emergency landing, when we finally arrived to our destination 8 hours late we couldn't deplane for 20 minutes. It was the worst experience ever and i know you said to keep it concise but i couldn't leave out all of the details :) Loving your vlogmas videos and so excited for Max!! As a flyers fan I'm even more excited!
Hi Gretchen First of all I want to say thank you 🙏🏻 for the video on vlog TH-cam channel uploaded for yesterday’s and today ready present 🎁 and Christmas 🎄 eve and ready for a day with workout 🏋️♀️ and yoga 🧘♀️ and drink 🍷 and a yoga mate 😎 by the way enjoy 😉 it workout 🏋️♀️ with suscylce workout 🏋️♂️ Enjoy 😊 for yourself and friends 👭 and everyone got it take care and max too Snapchat iPhone 📱 and taking care of yourself and have a good night 😴💤🌙😘 and will see ya 👋 on the next video tomorrow Sunday take care bye 👋
I am so sorry I couldn’t watch after you wrapped the presents it gave me so much anxiety. I hv OCD. If you want it to be a tiny better use boxes and wrap on a hard surface. If you don’t care then ignore this comment😂
One time my boyfriend and I were on our way home from a cruise out of Florida with our family. They we’re all flying back through Boston and we were going through Newark when the snow storm managed to hit Jersey first (delaying our flight) but they got home right before. They kept delaying it multiple times until deciding to cancel so we stayed in a hotel, rebooked for 6am flight the next day, got delayed almost 10 hours in our layover and when we finally got to jersey, they couldn’t find our bag for over an hour! Mind you we live in Providence and then had to drive another 3 hours. Our two days of hell lol
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Got stuck in Florida trying to get back to NY because of a snowstorm... had to check into a hotel using my fake because everywhere else was booked and you had to be 21 to get a room!!
do not feel guilty about sleeping in! definitely what the holidays are for :)
Gretchen if you used boxes, the wrapping would look way nearer. And, you can save them and use them for other years too. Most stores have them for free during the holiday season.
Gabrielle Floyd agreed
My craziest airport experience was when my family was moving across the country, so we had to bring our cats on the plane with us. They made us carry them through security and my cat ran through the entire airport! I thought he was gone forever and then this old man ended up cornering him and we got him back luckily! Sadly, the cats meowed the entire 4 hour flight in their carriers under our seats though 😂
TheLancaster19 omg
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i guess Im kinda off topic but does anyone know a good website to watch new tv shows online?
Two things: wrapping your presents on the bed gave me so much anxiety. Use the floor to make them neater! Other thing is in the same way with strawberries. Biting into it near the stem hurts my sensitive teeth.
My craziest experience is when I was about 8 years old and my family was going to Disney World for spring break. We were meeting my grandparents at Disney, and they were already there. Unfortunately, a huge snowstorm hit Wisconsin where I live, and our morning flight kept getting delayed and delayed. We waited on the plane/ in the airport all day until they finally canceled the flight late at night (like Max's flight). We had to fly out to Orlando the next morning and missed multiple days with my grandparents/ being in Disney. Midwest winters suck man!
Over the summer my friends and I were at the airport in Montreal trying to get back to Newark but our flight got canceled and no other flights were available. We couldn't rent a car or go on a train because they wouldn't cross the borders. So, we ended up getting on a greyhound from Montreal airport to New york city and were traveling for over 40 hours.
Qotd: I honestly don’t fly that much but something my parents told me from when I was little: we were going to cuba to go visit family (my moms side of the fam was all born there and moved to the us when they were young) and they pulled aside my dad (who was born here) and said that he wasn’t allowed to go because of the travel bans that they had in place and were extremely adamant that he was not going to be allowed to board even though he had a ticket and everything so we were not willing to leave just him here and nearly canceled everything but then they realized that he could go because he was married to my mother and all was well and I got to spend weeks on the clear beaches on the coast of Cuba w all my fam
Emily wow this comment was a whole journey.
Sarah M ahaha just a day on the roller coaster of my life
My craziest experience was flying from Jamaica, to Miami, back to Boston. We were supposed to get back to Boston in the early morning hours of Friday. But something was working with the plane and we had a huge delay. They had to have a new plane come all the way to Jamaica. Luckily, the airport was super sweet and provided tons of free food. We left at 8pm that night, landed in Miami in the wee hours of the morning, and spent the night in Miami, before flying to NY, and then back to Boston.
In 2016, I was flying from chicago to switzerland and within an hour before we were supposed to take off a huge rainstorm came in and it torrential rained. They still put us on the plan though but we just chilled in line to the runway for a good 3 hours until the stormed cleared up. I missed my connecting flight from switzerland to venice so had to chill at an airport in switzerland for half a day until a flight opened up.
A few years ago, my boyfriend and I were traveling to CA to go visit family over winter break, and our flight was supposed to take off at like 8 am, but there was a massive snowstorm. We still went to the airport because our flight wasn't canceled or delayed and we even boarded the plane maybe 30-45 mins late. We then proceeded to sit at the gate for 2 hours. They finally told us that we had to get off the plane because the early morning flights hadn't taken off yet, and they had to deplane those passengers who had been on planes for close to 5 hours, so we went back into the terminal. Our departure time kept getting pushed back by an hour or so for the next 7-8 hours of us sitting at the airport, and no one was saying anything. My sister, who was a flight attendant for a different airline, told me to get on the phone with the airline to get us on a different flight on a different day (we finally did after 2 hours on the phone with them). Around the same time, our city had also put out a travel restriction, so we couldn't even get out of the airport if we wanted to leave due to blizzard-like conditions. All of the restaurants and shops began selling out of food after a few hours because they only had a limited supply and they couldn't get food into the terminal because of the travel restrictions. 10 hours after our plane was supposed to take off, our airline carrier canceled all the flights that day and told us to all go to baggage claim to re-book tickets and pick up our bags. We got down to baggage claim, and they started pulling bags from the planes, but our entire flight remained after they had unloaded "all" of the planes, only to find out they didn't know where our plane was left on the tarmac! We sat there for the next 2 hours while they tried to locate our plane before we finally just left and told them to deliver our bags once they found the plane.
Meanwhile, I had started to come down with the flu just after we had gotten off the plane and then had to sit in the airport, sick for another 9-10 hours before finally going home.
I am in a really difficult season of life right now and it really sucks. But I am trying to be thankful throughout the hard times and you are one of the things I am thankful for. You always lift my mood and are really an inspiration. Thank you for being you.
This is too much for me to handle!!!! I just had such a fun night with all my friends and new people which is awesome but then I got hone and just broke down cause I’m strugglingggggg. Literally you are such an inspiration and idol and I loveeee you so much ❤️❤️
Emily 🖤
I go to school at Lehigh University which is super close to Allentown! If you ever visit Max you guys have to go to The Brick or Urbano for dinner and walk around North Bethlehem. It is always decorated so pretty!
I was on my way to study abroad. Flight delayed 3 hours. Flew over Nova Scotia (On my way to UK), the steering broke on the plane. Emergency landed in JFK after turning around. Flight then cancelled. Couldn’t hv our luggage. Got driven to a hotel in LI, stayed 24 hours. Got on the broken plane next day. Waited 6 hours on Tarmac. Finally left, got to layover, missed connection. Waited 8 more hours. Then got to destination. Luggage was missing for 5 days.
One time I was flying home from Nashville to Newark and they let me pre-board because I’m allergic to nuts and they let me wipe my seat down. So my seat neighbors board and get settled and they pull out the biggest bag of granola with all sorts of nuts, my epi was in my bag but I asked the flight attendant to move, there was plenty of seats in economy but she was so horrified they bumped me to empty first class seat. Awful but also kinda awesome outcome
THIS AIRPORT STORY IS CRAZY AND FUNNY! So I was applying to go to the United States Naval Academy for my undergrad education. My application was competitive so I was given an opportunity to see the academy for myself. The Academy payed for my ticket so that means they also scheduled the flight! I ended up being flown from SEATAC to some airport in/around Arlington, Virginia when the Academy is in Annapolis, Maryland. For some reason I didn’t make that connection until I was on the phone with the other applicants that I was supposed to meet up and carpool to the academy with. I had a very stressful conversation with some other applicant who did their best to try and find me...Turns out the admissions officers accidentally sent me to the wrong airport and on top of that couldn’t send someone to pick me up so I had to pay for a taxi from the Arlington, VA airport to the front gates of the academy in Annapolis, MD. It was also raining super freaking hard so I was running through the rain carrying a cloth suitcase, big backpack, and a duffel bag carry on! Needless to say all of my stuff got absolutely soaked and I hadn’t eaten since at least 24 hrs beforehand!! I bought an EXQUISITE chick fil a meal but when I went to eat it in the taxi, the driver told me I couldn’t eat in the car....so I was hangry, tired, and pissed off. It ended up ok though. I was reimbursed for the taxi bill and one of the midshipman at the academy saw I was in distress so helped me carry some stuff and another one payed for my dinner.
Luisa takeover! Keep up the hard work Max. Every time I fly out from Newark,NJ it as gets delayed every time
My crazy airport story would be the one where i flew the first time alone, i was going to start my exchange year in PA, and I had to fly from Barcelona to Pittsburgh, and my first flight got 4 hrs delayed, and that made me lose my connection flight at newark. I was so lost😅 I had an eventful start for my exchange year
I was flying to Ft. Lauderdale to go on a cruise with my best friend. We got delayed like 7 hours finally got to leave and then the plane we were on was smaller than they expected well anyways long story short we went to take off we heard a loud popping sound and then saw blue smoke we knew that it was not right well when we landed in Florida they took the plane straight into maintenance. It was one of the craziest fearful experiences when it comes to flying.
where are ur blue tie dye sweatpants from?! 🤩 i’m obsessed.
Cassie White soul by soul cycle, I have them and they are amazing!! you can find them on Nordstrom
Omg my family and I were traveling together to TX from NY and had a connection flight in Atlanta. We left late so we only had about 30 minutes to get all the way through the airport at the time, lol ATL IS HUGE! And my little sister was 2 at the time so you just see my mom running with this car seat on her back, and my twin sister rolling my little sister on her suitcase sprinting through the airport. We made it just on time😂
My craziest airport experience was traveling home from a trip to Munich last year. I got there 3 hours early and because of the longest security line of my life I didn't go through it myself til 15 min before my flight...I almost just gave up then because I figured there was no shot I was making it because the airport is so big and my gate was really far but I called the airline and they told me every single flight back was full the rest of the day and I was traveling alone. (I also couldn't talk to staff and leave the line because I was alone) I ran across the giant airport and somehow made it (while hearing my name called on the loudspeaker) seriously out of a movie scene!
Craziest experience was definitely when I was flying into LAX and right before landing, the plane was flying in circles. We didn’t know what was going on until someone with internet connection said there was a shooting at LAX and we couldn’t land because the airport was shut down so we were diverted to Las Vegas and couldn’t get a connecting flight that day so we rented a car and drove!!
Your 8AM hoodie is so cute!! Love the detailing on the sides
What filter/lut do you use on your videos? 🌸
My craziest flight story was freshman year of high school the freshman class (96 people) all we’re flying from Philly to Disney for a class trip and we had to get to our school at 5am for an 8am flight which ended up getting cancelled so then the travel agent found a open flight with no one on it through the Atlantic City airport which has 2 gates and 1 restaurant and the entire class was stuck there from around 8am to when our flight was supposed to take off at 6pm and then it ended up getting delayed again till 9 so we were in the airport for over 12 hours
Watching ur vlogs before bed>>> ALSO can you make a video about long distance. My bf is studying aboard next semester and it’s slowly hitting me already :(
A: So basically this summer I stuck in martha’s vinyard, because my flight was an hour later than my two friends flights but then mine got cancelled so i was stuck alone, but then one of the small airplanes (6 people) came to take some people off the island back to boston and I got to ride in the copilot seat! once i got to boston i rebooked everything and made it to meet my family for another vacation! so yeah everything workout but it was soooo stressful at the time :)
Emma S-H omg
Gretchen is me
"I decided I needed a cookie, so I ate 3"
I was flying from Albany, Ny to Florida. Had a 10 hour delay ( they didn’t tell us why tho) we finally boarded the plane and got to the run way and then they tell us that it was so cold outside the main engine froze up so they were gonna try and fly us to Florida on the back up engine. So we all just hoped we would make it there alive!
perfect timing, lay down to watch something and you posted 🙌😌
QOTD: I was in Rome flying to Florence on a late night flight that had already been delayed two hours + plane change + pilot change... I went to sleep on the plane and when I woke up the pilot said we were landing in a different city and so I was stranded in a tiny airport in Italy for a night. That same trip the unions were striking so all my flights were cancelled and I had to get home via train then American Airlines. ah!
Got stuck in Ft. Lauderdale trying to get to Nicaragua and eventually we ended up having to take a cab 2 hours to Miami to get a flight from there. The airline gave us a voucher for the cab so we didn't have to pay but the cab attendant was giving us a hard time about it because the airline worker didn't sign it so I took it back, signed it myself and handed it to her (it was like 2am, I was desperate lol) and she let us use it!
I'm late to the game but my craziest airplane horror story was my family was actually in a plane "crash" when we were landing at our destination. The plane was taxi-ing to the gate at the airport and one of the gas tank trucks was outside of the lines and the tip of our plane wing ended up hitting the truck. We sat on the blacktop for AN HOUR and then had to exit the plane there! It was quite a welcome to Alabama. :)
Omg I was on a trip to Aspen, CO with my cousins as their babysitter, and we were trying to fly home so I could get back for school and the airport lost air control so they couldn’t have planes land or take off after 4pm because their technology that detects planes coming overhead was broken so they were doing everything by sight and it was either wait in aspen for 3 days for new flights and sleep in a movie theater since all hotels were booked already, or drive in a bus for 6 hours around to Denver and take 2 flights to get back to California hahaha
you should use a sponge or brush maybe to put on the tanning face drops, not sure if it would work but just a thought so you don't have to worry about cheeto fingers hahah
I was flying from Tampa Fl to Roanoke Va and we arrived fine and were flying over the airport and they decided that it was too foggy to land so they flew us back to Tampa and we had to go out the next morning! We were already there!!!
My boyfriend and I were supposed to fly home to philly from New Orleans after our week long cruise. The flight was canceled and they couldn’t get us out until THREE DAYS LATER. So we rented a car and drove 14 hours from New Orleans to Philadelphia 🙃
So the craziest flight experience happened for me when I was on my way home from a trip in Florida for my birthday this year! We flew Spirit and obviously heard mixed reviews but the flight to Florida was totally fine but the way back was a nightmare! We were flying out of Orlando to come home late afternoon so we got to the airport early afternoon. The flight ended up getting delayed then pushed back up approximately 5 times, there were people waiting from a flight that got cancelled earlier in the morning to fly out of our flight, they gave us so many different excuses and it was super frustrating. They ended up cancelling the flight three hours after we were supposed to LAND because the pilot they FLEW IN (because they originally DIDN’T HAVE A CREW FOR OUR FLIGHT) would be over his flying hours for the day if he were to complete our flight. SO ANNOYING. And obviously the airport staff and Spirit customer service were not helpful whatsoever so we ended up renting a car and driving 13 hours to get home with people we met while we were waiting 😂 SUCH a headache but it makes for an awesome story!
Lol going to college nationals for cheerleading we had a flight out of our local airport. We got there 2 hours early and the second we walked in the door it was delayed 2 hours then kept getting pushed back AGAIN every hour. The plane we were supposed to be on hadn't even left florida to come to massachusetts (we had been waiting for 5 hours at this point) and we had to compete in less than 12 hours SO the airline sent cabs to the airport we were at and we had an hour drive to boston with all the cab drivers going like 100 mph to get us to our flight in time. Finally got to Logan & that flight was delayed too of course. We got to nationals at like 5 am slept for 4 hours and got up to compete 😭
I had to wait two hours before we took off one time, we just sat in the plane forever, another time i was flying into Fiji and as we were landing the plane 100% tipped sideways like 45degrees to the right really quick right before we touched, and i swear we were gonna die, but we lived so amen
ily soooo much gretchen!!!
no horror stories for the airport. i always over prepare because flying makes me anxious.
i did want to say that you saying you wanted a cookie and then you ate 3 is a whole MOOD lol. i feel the same way about nilla wafers except i eat the whole box 😬
Not really a horror story but at 17 I caught a flight to visit my friend for the day and was supposed to fly back at 6pm that night and my flight was delayed like four times and at 9pm it was cancelled because of fog. And because it was a weather thing the airline said it wasn’t their fault so no one got accomodation unless they had insurance which I didn’t. So I cried and this lady came up and was like I’m a teacher at this school I have my teacher ID I have insurance so they’re going to give me a room if you wanted to share, I declined. And I didn’t have a phone charger or much money bc I was only supposed to be there for the day and it was 9:30pm so didn’t want to catch the bus back to the city by myself. So I walked to the hotel that’s basically attached to the airport but they were full. So I stayed at the airport overnight. And then the other flight they put me on for 8am the next day was delayed till 11am. So I was camped out in the airport by myself for 16hours lmao
you should think about planning and pre-recording your podcast episodes!
Seeing your vlogmas upload just made my night!! 💗
LOL I once had wayyy to much in my carry on that it wouldn’t fit in the overhead space. The flight attendant and two other passengers tried to help me squeeze it but it still wouldn’t fit. The flight attendant ended up having to give me a bag, and on the floor of the plane I took out a bunch of my clothes to put in the bag so everything will fit while everyone waited... finally after taking things out but luggage fit in the overhead space and EVERYONE STARTED CLAPPING LMAO
Newark is such a sketchy airport like it is so bad!
I live in allentown!! So excited come visit and see Max if he comes to that team
Craziest airport story was I was on vacation in the Dominican with some friends and on my way back to Canada. They asked where my travel companion was and the girl they asked about never came on the trip. They then searched my luggage before the security that searched my bags asking me out. A total nightmare
my cousins were dropping me off at the airport and the gate to my flight closed at 7:30 am....they got me there at 7:20 i was waiting in line for security hearing my name called and i quickly booked it to my gate after security not wearing any shoes or anything lol, the gates were closed but they still let me on :D it was funny but stressful at the same time
My craziest airport story was my fault not the airline but its funny. I was going in my first trip with my friends to Colombia and I was flying alone and meeting my friends in 24 hrs. I was in the gate waiting and I decide to go to the bathroom and I dropped my phone in the toilet and it died instantly. I started crying bc I didn't have anyway of letting my friends or family know. So I approach people (ugly crying) to ask for their phones to call my mom and no one wanted to give it to me. Eventually I call my mom and she decided to go back and give me her phone for my trip (god bless her, it was her birthday), but I was already at the gate and my flight was boarding in 20 min. But I cried to the people in security and customs to let me go out again and get the phone. Then in Colombia my mom's phone was stolen from me.
this past Thanksgiving I was trying to get to Philly from Montreal. I boarded my what should have been direct flight, after being on the flight for an hour they told us the plane was broken and we couldnt take off. then the door was broken so we spent an extra hour on the plane. Once I got off I ended up being re booked on an Air Canada flight going from Montreal to Toronto then Toronto to Philly (with a 3 hour layover). Since I was going from flying international to local I had to re go through security so I had to throw away the bottle of wine I had bought as a present. American Airlines didnt even give me a food coupon to say sorry. Then the flight to Toronto had such bad turbulence we didnt get snacks or drinks. Finally I made it to my TO then got on my plane and laded in PA 7 hours later then execpted and ended up being in airports and on planes for a total of 14 hours that day. Sorry for the long paragraph haha
I was going to Europe for the 1st time with my mom & sister& v long story short we drove to the airport, flight 1/2 was delayed and we didn't think we'd make the connection so got tix for the next day, drove home, turned around to drive back bc someone thought we could make it, found out our tix were gone, drove back home, found out the next day we would've made our connection after all.
You’re adorable! This is the first video of yours I’ve ever watched! 😀❤️
Are you coming to the phantoms game on the 28th???
I was flying for the first time ever I was 15 and I was alone and some man behind me had a baby that was screaming and ended up the baby needed a dipper change and then instead of changing him before we even boarded the plane he decided to change him as we were taking off and the poopy dipper went EVERYWHERE so we had to turn around and land and change planes.......so so so bad. Ps I know it’s gross but is the craziest plane ride I have ever had
An airline lost my wheelchair. I got to Myrtle Beach but my wheelchair didn’t. (I can’t walk). I had to use a loaner chair until they could find my chair and send it to me. They forgot to load my chair on the plane. It came to me late that night. Fun fact: that wheelchair went to New York before it got to me. I’ve never been to New York.
Craziest airport experience: a smart backpack caught on fire while I was going through security.
where are your pants from in the first clip? love them!
Love the penguin wrapping paper.❤️
Mines not very crazy but when I was coming home from India, I was supposed to get in at 6am but got in at 6 pm bc the flight kept getting delayed 🙄
My craziest experience was the day I was supposed to come home from studying abroad.. our first flight out of Italy couldn’t land at the airport to get us so we had to be bussed to another city, then missed our connecting flight in Paris back to Boston .. had to stay overnight in Paris then the flight the next day got delayed ... finally made it home but my luggage was in stuck in Paris for 5 days 😂
had FOUR flights cancelled in one day!! my original flight got cancelled and they just kept re booking us!! After 12 hours in the airport we had to drive from florida to ATL! arrived in ATL at 4am and had to wake up at 6 for my competition😭 rip
omg!! so terrible!!!
Emily McHale ONFG
my craziest airport experience was being quarantined for 7 hours in atlanta and missing my connecting flight because they thought i had ebola🤠 i was put into a special room and they took a lot of my blood! so fun! (btw i did not have ebola) i was 12.
I was flying from jfk to la and I had the middle seat. The lady on my left near the window was fast asleep and snoring loudly. I thought great this is what I have to listen to the entire flight...ugh!!! Wait for it...it gets worse. After we took off and they had started serving drinks she woke up and said she was going to 🤢!!! I told the guy to my right and we both jumped out of our seats. I told a flight attendant who just looked at me. I told her I couldn’t sit next to this lady if she was going to 🤢. I 🤮 just hearing someone 🤢. The guy to my right was nice enough to find me another seat but they made him stay where he was. The lady threw up the entire 6 hour flight! I watched her run to the rest room the entire flight. Sorry this was so graphic but it really was the worst flight I was on.
Craziest airport story - sitting in a line of 40 planes waiting to take off on the runway for almost 2 hours. 🙃🙃
Sitting on the tarmac for 4 hours and being told you can’t get out of your seat cause it’s a live tarmac. Ridiculous! My son had to go the bathroom and after raising a stink they allowed him to get up and go to the bathroom.
When I was 9 we went to Ireland and my family’s tickets were split across the isle so my dad and brother were on the other side and my mom and i were on one side so i ended up sitting next to a priest (which was so cool because i had made my communion the year before so I was excited) and my mom. The priest was drinking wine and spilled it all over me 😂😂😂😂
Casey Glynn omg that’s so funny!!
Q~ I was in Arizona with my team and we had a connecting flight in Georgia to come back home and the flight was at 5 and got delayed till 2 am and then got cancelled so my team at that moment rented a van and drove 5 hours home and i got home at liek 8 and then went to school tahts day but late lol
Love you, Gretch. :)
Flying home from Jamaica during the Boston Bombings
Can you add time stamps to your vlogs?
“Craziest” experience is when they asked for a volunteer to give up their seat and I got $1000 for it. Love that for me
my flight got delayed 6 hours
I was traveling alone for the first time ever and my flight was to take off at 2:15 got delayed until 5:30, then they said around 5pm were boarding early and everyone lined up only for them to tell us there was no pilot. We were then delayed until 7:15. When we finally boarded we had another 40 minute delay because of an emergency landing, when we finally arrived to our destination 8 hours late we couldn't deplane for 20 minutes. It was the worst experience ever and i know you said to keep it concise but i couldn't leave out all of the details :) Loving your vlogmas videos and so excited for Max!! As a flyers fan I'm even more excited!
our plane got struck by lightning then when we landed in California there were earthquakes
Julia Nelson omg. stop
I almost got detained in Hawaii by myself when I was 16 because I didn’t have an Id
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i decided i needed a cookie so i ate 3 HAHA
Hi Gretchen
First of all I want to say thank you 🙏🏻 for the video on vlog TH-cam channel uploaded for yesterday’s and today ready present 🎁 and Christmas 🎄 eve and ready for a day with workout 🏋️♀️ and yoga 🧘♀️ and drink 🍷 and a yoga mate 😎 by the way enjoy 😉 it workout 🏋️♀️ with suscylce workout 🏋️♂️
Enjoy 😊 for yourself and friends 👭 and everyone got it take care and max too Snapchat iPhone 📱 and taking care of yourself and have a good night 😴💤🌙😘 and will see ya 👋 on the next video tomorrow Sunday take care bye 👋
I am so sorry I couldn’t watch after you wrapped the presents it gave me so much anxiety. I hv OCD. If you want it to be a tiny better use boxes and wrap on a hard surface. If you don’t care then ignore this comment😂
One time my boyfriend and I were on our way home from a cruise out of Florida with our family. They we’re all flying back through Boston and we were going through Newark when the snow storm managed to hit Jersey first (delaying our flight) but they got home right before. They kept delaying it multiple times until deciding to cancel so we stayed in a hotel, rebooked for 6am flight the next day, got delayed almost 10 hours in our layover and when we finally got to jersey, they couldn’t find our bag for over an hour! Mind you we live in Providence and then had to drive another 3 hours. Our two days of hell lol