'I boarded flight without my wife as she was late to the gate - I'm not wrong' (original) (raw)

An exasperated husband has explained why he left his wife at the airport terminal and caught a plane without her after she traipsed off to get a Starbucks coffee

The coffee incident has put a great strain on the couple's relationship (stock photo(

A husband left his wife at the airport and boarded a plane because she took too long getting a coffee.

For one couple who recently booked a flight to visit their daughters, the stressful airport experience ended up with a steely silence descending between them.

The unfortunate incident began at the start of a long weekend with two flights, the first of which the American duo successfully managed to catch. However, at the second, larger airport the wife decided to grab a coffee.

"We only had about one hour layover. We got off the plane at 9.15am and our next plane started boarding at 9.40M. We had to take multiple rails to get from where we landed to our terminal. We got to our terminal and had about 15 minutes until our plane was set to board," the man explained on Reddit.

"My wife tells me that she wants to get coffee. There was a little market next to our terminal that sold hot food and coffee. I asked if she wanted me to go grab it for her. 'No I want Starbucks,' she said. Well Starbucks was a rail ride away, and a little bit of a walk."

The woman decided to get herself a coffee (stock photo) (

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Ignoring his suggestion that the Starbucks was too far, the bean-thirsty partner headed on her way.

"15 minutes went by and she was no where to be seen. The started calling boarding groups, I called my wife hoping she was near by, she didn’t answer," the irritated spouse continued.

"They called a few groups, then called ours. In a panic I called my wife again, three times, finally on the last call she answered and said she was on her way. It was a long line and she had to wait a bit. I told her they were almost done with boarding and she needed to hurry up.

"I waited by the gate but the attendant said they would need to shut the gate in two minutes. I waited and waited, but she didn’t show up. The attendant asked if I wanted to board, otherwise she was closing the gate. I tried to plead with her to wait a couple of minutes but she insisted that she couldn’t. So, I boarded the plane.

"A few minutes later my wife calls me saying the the attendant won’t let her on, they had already removed the boarding ramp at that point. She told me I needed to tell them to let me off the plane to be with her and I said 'no'."

While the wife managed to get a later ticket and catch some of the weekend, relations between the pair have been frosty ever since. As an explanation for his actions, the husband explained how the situation was not a one off.

Several weeks before both of them had missed a flight due to her tardiness, or so the husband claimed. He explained how he'd woken early ahead of a morning flight to make sure all of their ducks were in a row.

"I of course got up at 6am, to make sure everything was ready and accounted for. My wife does not like to get up early. It took me attempting to wake her up five times before she eventually got up at 7.40am, then she wanted to make coffee, shower, and eat a bowl of cereal," he recalled.

"Let’s just say that we didn’t leave the house until 9am. It ended up being busier at the airport than normal and it took so long to get through security that we missed our flight. Rightly so, the airline refused to refund our ticket."

The majority of people in the comments have rallied behind the husband. One person wrote: "The fact that she thought that she could conceivably get in and out of an airport Starbucks in 15 minutes, and it wasn’t even located next to their departure gate, is legit insane."

Another added: "As someone who arrives several hours early to any flight, this kind of behaviour is genuinely bewildering. If you're not spending an hour dawdling at the gate before boarding commences, you're asking for trouble."

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