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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/thewindows95nerd on 2024-10-31 11:09:19+00:00.

So it was night time and I had a short 1 hour flight for some errands. I arrived at the airport early too and mostly relaxed and crashed around the area especially after going through TSA. However, I did not get enough good sleep the night prior as I had so much work on my plate. Since I was off work, I mostly relaxed and used my laptop treating it as a nice evening/night to unwind as there was not much going on the week for me. Closer to the boarding time, I arrived at the gate and took a seat to wait to board for my flight. Now usually, I am good about waking up right just when my boarding group is called and so when the urge to nap came, I started napping being completely forgetful of the fact that I was already exhausted and that I am at a “quiet terminal”. I then woke up at the airport to that my gate was empty and then checked the time to see that the time was 30 minutes past the departing time of my flight. Now, had this been an international flight, I probably would have been panicking but luckily it wasn’t. I wasn’t exactly going to go through the hassle of trying to get a flight rebooked with a gate agent for something that was my own fault so I had simply booked a last minute flight that was 8 hours later in the morning which was not that expensive and it was even with the same airline. I ended up continuing to sleep at the airport as a result internally facepalming myself over the extreme stupidity of what I had done and then woke up a bit earlier to prepare to board for my new flight this time and finally made it on my way. Surprisingly, my return flight was not cancelled for being a no-show for the original outbound flight and I was even able to board and go on my way back home on the original return flight (and funnily enough, I ended up just sleeping for most of the flight and woke up just in time for descent). But yeah, still was rather perplexed by my own stupidity and definitely will probably be putting various alarms right around boarding time in case I snooze off.

TL;DR: Overslept at my boarding gate and ended up missing the flight.