What is your most interesting airplane/airport travel story?

I was sat next to a woman (38 years old) and on the other side of the aisle were her two children, maybe 5 and 8 years old. Immediately, I could sense that something was off with this lady and I also sensed that she really wanted to talk to me. I really didn't want to, but after multiple attempts from her to strike up conversation through small talk I decided to indulge. She began to tell me that she was a very important person and that I'd "hear about her in the papers tomorrow". She said she was in hiding and that the airplane we were on was littered with security to protect her. I didn't believe her, but found her story amusing so I asked more questions. She told me she couldn't tell me her last name and suddenly she got paranoid that I was a "photog". She began to cry hysterically that she gets beat by her rich and famous husband and that shes been forced into a life of hiding. She then started to apologize to me about "incriminating me". She offered me her purse and told me to take as much money as I wanted, which I refused to do. About thirty minutes in, a stewardess came by with four small liquor bottles full of gin. Jane Doe slipped her some money and began to slug down the gin like there was no tomorrow. Within 5 minutes she was out cold. I took this opportunity to shuffle through her purse, which had already been exposed from her offer, and find out who the fuck this mystery woman on the run really was. Turns out she was just a crazy lady like I'd expected. Anyway, we land and shes still out. Her children begin crying because their mother wouldn't wake up no matter how much they pushed and yelled at her to get up. It created a scene in the whole plane. After multiple tries from me to wake up her up, she finally did. Once I saw that she was conscious again I got up and got the fuck out of there.

TL;DR Sat next to a crazy lady who claimed to be very important and on the run from the paparazzi and abusive husband. She began to cry hysterically and then proceeded to pound four shot bottles of gin, pass out, and not wake up until after her children and everyone else in the plane thought she was dead.

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