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After their flight got canceled, 13 strangers decided to rent a van and drive instead

After their flight got canceled, 13 strangers decided to rent a van and drive instead
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After their flight got canceled, 13 strangers decided to rent a van and drive instead
Would you hop into a van with a bunch of strangers for a long overnight ride?Faced with a canceled flight, that's exactly what a group of passengers did at Orlando International Airport.Along the way, they found friendship and a bit of celebrity."Amy said, 'Here's the deal, everybody,'" Michelle Miller, a van passenger, said. You're in the Orlando International Airport. Your flight to Knoxville, Tennessee, has been canceled. You're stuck overnight and you have several options:The craziest is to rent a van with fellow passengers and drive overnight, but yet, that's what 13 passengers — complete strangers — decided to do."I thought it was crazy. I was like a little nervous because I was like, this is weird to just get into a van with a bunch of strangers and everything," Michaela Puckering, a passenger, said. Was it comfortable? No, but was it fun? Yes. The excitement kicked up a notch when Alannah Story brought TikTok nation along for the ride. Needless to say, it was a box office hit. "And then when I refreshed it, it jumped hundreds of views each time and I thought, 'Oh snap, this is one of those videos that's going to do it,'" Story said. "Every single comment was supportive," Laura Puckering, a passenger, said. TikTokers created their own movie script: Two passengers were cast as Russian spies. Another was pegged as the first passenger to die if the ride took a turn into a murder mystery. Story's mom, Renee, became an overnight sensation. How does the movie end? They make it to Knoxville and are now fast friends. Michaela got to the University of Tennessee in time for her college tour and arrived a celebrity. "When we went to register, the whole school had seen it," a passenger said. Maybe 13 strangers stuffed in a van will really become a movie because, apparently, Hollywood is calling. Because one passenger says she got a call from a producer for a very famous actor, saying they could be interested in making this into a movie.They want small parts, like an employee who announced your flights have been canceled.

Would you hop into a van with a bunch of strangers for a long overnight ride?

Faced with a canceled flight, that's exactly what a group of passengers did at Orlando International Airport.

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Along the way, they found friendship and a bit of celebrity.

"Amy said, 'Here's the deal, everybody,'" Michelle Miller, a van passenger, said.

You're in the Orlando International Airport. Your flight to Knoxville, Tennessee, has been canceled.

You're stuck overnight and you have several options:

The craziest is to rent a van with fellow passengers and drive overnight, but yet, that's what 13 passengers — complete strangers — decided to do.

"I thought it was crazy. I was like a little nervous because I was like, this is weird to just get into a van with a bunch of strangers and everything," Michaela Puckering, a passenger, said.

Was it comfortable? No, but was it fun? Yes.

The excitement kicked up a notch when Alannah Story brought TikTok nation along for the ride.

Needless to say, it was a box office hit.

"And then when I refreshed it, it jumped hundreds of views each time and I thought, 'Oh snap, this is one of those videos that's going to do it,'" Story said.

"Every single comment was supportive," Laura Puckering, a passenger, said.

TikTokers created their own movie script: Two passengers were cast as Russian spies. Another was pegged as the first passenger to die if the ride took a turn into a murder mystery.

Story's mom, Renee, became an overnight sensation.

How does the movie end? They make it to Knoxville and are now fast friends.

Michaela got to the University of Tennessee in time for her college tour and arrived a celebrity.

"When we went to register, the whole school had seen it," a passenger said.

Maybe 13 strangers stuffed in a van will really become a movie because, apparently, Hollywood is calling.

Because one passenger says she got a call from a producer for a very famous actor, saying they could be interested in making this into a movie.

They want small parts, like an employee who announced your flights have been canceled.