This is why I have an edible or two before any flight with my parents now... er specifically the wait at the gate. It's nice I can drink now so sometimes it's tailgate before the wait at the gate.
because you gotta check in, get through security, wait in lines, ever been on a plane waiting, and they keep paging someone that deciding to go eat or shop at the airport? they have to remove their checked in luggage from cargo hold, cancel their names from the manifest. and then depart.
“Wtf why”