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The Mary Sue
The Mary Sue
Gisselle Hernandez

‘It worked’: D.C. woman doesn’t have time to check her bag. Then she comes up with a genius lie at the gate

Desperation breeds creativity—especially at the airport. A Washington, D.C. woman on TikTok is going viral after confessing that she was running so late for her flight, she decided to fake total travel incompetence. Instead of checking her bag, she lugged it all the way to the gate and said she “didn’t know how” to check luggage. The wild part? They believed her.

In her words: “Sorry to the flight attendants, but it worked.”

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