Passenger shares why you shouldn’t bring water bottles with straws on plane

A passenger has gone viral on TikTok after warning other travelers about bringing straw-lid water bottles on planes.

TikTok user Kat Darby (lifted_pdx) took to the app to share what happened after she brought a reusable water bottle with a straw on an airplane.

“Have you ever gone on a plane and brought a water bottle with a straw in it?” she began. “Well, do I have a story for you because last week, I went on a flight, and I brought this handy dandy water bottle with me, and it has a straw in it.”

Kat explained that one of her favorite things about the built-in straw was that she didn’t have to tilt the bottle to drink from it. But the straw became her undoing when she tried to take a sip while in the air.

“What I did not account for was water pressure,” she said. “So, when I opened it, it proceeded to piss like a hose… I hit … like 15 people with my squirting water bottle because, lucky for me, this thing holds like 30 ounces. I could not get it to stop.”

Kat managed to stop the strong pressure by sticking her finger into the hole and pressing the lid closed. “So learn from my mistakes: Never fly with a giant water bottle with a f**king straw in it,” she concluded in her clip, which has racked up over 947,000 views.

Many TikTok users commented that the exact same thing has happened to them while on flights. “I did this…. It was the fountain that never ended! That really should be on the flight attendant puppet show before the flight,” one person shared.

“This happened to me for an 18 hr flight. Good thing the lights were off and most were asleep,” another commented. “I brought a sippy cup with a snap on cap filled with red juice for my daughter. As soon as she took a sip… looked like a crime scene!” a third said.

Others pointed out that you have to equalize the pressure before drinking from a water bottle on a plane. “I always untwist the cap to release the pressure before I open the straw,” a viewer explained.