1. Attempting to negotiate the booking system without accidentally buying a load of random things.
2. Booking a flight for 6am and naïvely thinking it's fine until you realise you need to get to the airport at 4am.
3. So debating whether to sleep on the floor of the airport or pay for a hotel.
And after sleeping on the floor of Stansted once, deciding that the extra £30 on a Travelodge is worth it.
4. Forgetting to check in online so having to queue for eight years and pay £60 to do it at the airport.
5. Wearing all of your clothes to get around the bag rules.
6. Being at the airport and deciding that since you’ve saved so much money on the flight you can spend it all in Wetherspoon's.
7. Literally running for your life when they announce the gate because you haven't spent £5.99 on a reserved seat.
8. Hearing a weird noise but convincing yourself that it’s totally fine even though you're in a flying Megabus.
9. Considering cutting off your own legs to make the seat a *little* bit more comfortable.
10. Being a nervous flyer and being forced to stare at the safety card for the entire flight.
11. Getting seated behind a group of lads on tour.
12. Having every single onboard advert drilled into your brain for the rest of your life.
On my flight today on RyanAir, never seen advertising like this on a plane before...! @Marcoms2014
Fond memories of the lottery advert they played over the intercom eight times on that 2012 flight to Budapest <3.
13. Treating yourself to a newspaper and feeling extremely extravagant.
14. But promising yourself you won’t buy any food on the plane, and then falling for it every time.
Ryanair cheeseburger reality. Enjoy! #ryanair #food #cheeseburger
And then having to extend your overdraft because you bought two kinds of Pringles.
15. Putting all your souvenirs in your coat pockets on the way home to avoid having to pay for an extra bag.
16. Having to listen to the "congratulations we didn't die" fanfare at the end of the flight.
17. Flying with another airline and genuinely being shocked at the decadence of it all.
18. Promising yourself you’ll never fly Ryanair again, and then finding yourself boarding one of those ridiculous planes a year later.
19. Because you can't help but get roped in by those sweet sweet deals.
