Traveling is fun, and it’s awesome to explore new places. What’s not so awesome is having to deal with the stress and insanity of going through the airport and deal with security.

1. Before you leave, you try to pump yourself up for the ensuing nightmare:

2. When you arrive at the airport to see a ridiculous amount of people milling around:

3. When you pretend to know exactly where to go and what to do to check your bag:

4. The misfortune of discovering your flight has been delayed:

5. Or, the horror of all horrors: finding that your flight has been cancelled, and you’ll be camping out at the airport until you can find a new one:

6. Seeing the line at the security checkpoint, knowing you’ll be trapped there forever:

7. When someone inevitably tries to cut the massive security line:

8. After finally passing through security, you check to make sure all of your belongings made it through as well:

9. When someone else just doesn’t get it, sits down right next to you, and tries to make small talk:

10. When the waiting game resumes again in the area just outside your gate:

11. When you finally give up, and accept the reality that you may never actually leave the airport on a plane:

12. When you finally hear that your flight is boarding, and everyone stampedes toward the gate:

13. When your excitement is immediately diminished as the flight attendant begins the safety spiel, explaining what to do in the event of an emergency landing in water for your flight across the Midwest:

14. And when the torment finally ends, the plane is in the air, you’re on your way, and it’s finally worth it: