By Antonio Palma
Think you’ll meet the last flight of the night canceled and having to get to your destination the next day, but there are no buses, trains or rental cars. This is the situation they found themselves in. 13 Americans, complete strangers to each other, who finally decided to rent the only thing available, a minivan, resulting in a journey none of them expected.
The story of the 13 perfect strangers suddenly became public knowledge when one of them started filming the journey to recount the adventure and later posting the clips. video on tiktok🇧🇷
The first video quickly collected millions of views and thousands of comments which prompted the woman to continue with videos on the well-known social media platform that told about the “crazy” journey.
It all started last Sunday at the international airport of Orlando, Florida, when the last available overnight flight to Knoxville, Tennessee, was abruptly cancelled. Most of the passengers left, but not the 13 protagonists of the story.
Wandering between counters and offices to find something to start with, the 13 realized they had the same problem and they all found themselves together making a choice none of them thought of until a few minutes earlier.
They rented the only thing available, a 15 seater van and they left. As CNN reconstructed, one of the passengers, Alanah Story, began filming for her TikTok, asking stranded passengers to come forward and explain how they found themselves stranded and why they were renting a van with a group of strangers to drive across the country.
Alanah’s video on TikTok intrigued many users who were hoping to know more about them and then the video went viral and the young woman was flooded with messages.
It was around 9:30 pm when the group hit the road. They were numbered from one to 13, so that every time they stopped at a gas station to go to the bathroom, they could be sure that they had got everyone back together and finally reached their destination by taking turns driving.
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