A MUM was forced to cancel her flight after discovering her son doodled a dinosaur in her passport just hours before a work trip abroad.
The distraught parent shared the stressful experience online, along with photos of the ballpoint scribbles, captioned: “I hate dinosaurs!”
“I feel like crying. My flight is tonight,” she said.
“I was packing, and my little one was busy scribbling on my passport. I didn’t notice when he got hold of it.
“This morning I was running around queuing at immigration.
“I’m hoping I don’t have to declare the passport as damaged.”
The woman then went to the Immigration Department in Kajang, Malaysia before being sent to Putrajaya.
Unfortunately, her worst fears were realised.
Officials told her her passport was damaged and not valid for travel.
To make matters worse, as it was a weekend, she could not get a replacement until Monday.
She said: “I’m now on the way to Kuala Lumpur International Airport to ask Qatar Airways if I can change my ticket to Monday night.
“Please pray that everything is made easier.”
Fortunately, she was able to change her flight to Monday – though at a not insignificant price of £114.
Accepting the outcome, she wrote: “To those asking about the little one who scribbled on the passport, he’s still smiling without any sense of guilt and still saying, ‘Let’s go to the airport!’
“Please pray that our affairs are made easier as we continue our 11,977km journey soon… amen.
“Also, thank you to the immigration officer in Putrajaya who was on duty this morning and helped us accept fate with more calmness.
“God willing, there is a blessing in it.”
This is not the first time passport issues have caused last-minute travel chaos.
In August last year, a couple left their 10-year-old son behind at Barcelona Airport after discovering his passport had expired.
Determined not to miss their flight, they arranged for a relative to collect him and boarded the plane without him.
The plan quickly unravelled when airport staff spotted the boy alone and alerted police.
It is not known if the family were charged or given any sort of caution by the police.