It’s summer, which means people are missing their flights and going to the papers about their misfortune, which is – in the main – entirely their fault.

So it’s rare to see someone making the most of their misfortune after forgetting to go to the airport for their plane to Barcelona.

The bloody lunatics.

Manchester Evening News: Couple strip off and holiday in Hulme after missing their flight

No crying, no histrionics, no blaming the traffic or taxi drivers.

Just a frank admission that they were a bit rubbish and didn’t leave on time.

Patrick and Paula, we salute you.

Birmingham Mail: Birmingham couple’s holiday RUINED after they book flight from Birmingham Alabama by mistake

This is the kind of Jeremy Kyle level idiocy upon which this country is built.

(But the got a free holiday from Virgin in what is NO WAY a publicity stunt)

Bury Times: Family return from a holiday in HELL to discover they’ve fallen into a 1970s photograph

The best bit about this photo is the fact that it was taken in 1974 and they haven’t aged a day.