Dad leaving to travel to Paris 2024 Olympics realizes he has lost key item

There’s nothing worse than losing something like your passport or wallet and creating a bit of pre-vacation panic, as one dad did.

A viral TikTok video was shared by his daughter Honor Wolstencroft, 20, who can be seen sitting in the back of her parents’ car. She then flips the camera to show Guy, 56, wondering where he put his wallet and then frantically searching in her mother’s handbag.

The text layered over the stressful scene says, “My dad is not an airport dad, my dad is a realizing he’s lost his wallet before we’re about to leave.” Wolstencroft’s viral video has received 2.6 million views.

“I wasn’t particularly stressed as this is very typical behavior of my dad, and I wasn’t surprised at all that this has happened, I knew he would find it eventually,” Wolstencroft told Newsweek.

She said Guy found his wallet at the bottom of his bag in about 15 minutes, so the family, which is from Cheshire, England, could continue with the road trip to Paris to see the Olympics.

In 2014, a Pew Research Center study found that the public tends to perceive women as more organized than men. Specifically, 48 percent of 1,835 respondents believe this trait is more common in women, compared with only 4 percent who think men are more organized. Meanwhile, 46 percent said both genders share this quality equally.

Judging by the comments section in the July 25 video, fathers are notorious for their vacation mishaps.

“My dad took us to the airport on the wrong date of our flight,” said one user. Another wrote: “My dad took my passport from when I was 8 to the airport instead of his.”

A third wrote: “My dad hid his wallet in the microwave on vacation so the cleaning ladies wouldn’t find. Well he didn’t find it either when we were leaving.”

A fourth user wrote: “My dad always realizes that he forgot his backpack at the hotel as soon as we arrive at the airport! It drives me crazy.”

But it is not just dads who misplace things, another person said. “This is basically my sister with her credit cards, wallet, keys and even her card to enter her workplace. The headache is real.”

Other comments on the clip, which has over 454,000 likes, focused on Guy’s reaction.

One person said: “I have never in my life laughed at a TikTok. It’s your dads startled face that made me laugh my head off.”

“Not him trying to visualize it instead of actually looking for it,” said another comment, which has 74,000 likes.

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