It was a frustrating day for Michael Wright. He had gone through a flight delay leaving from Lafayette and due to time constraints, he was stuck in the busiest airport in the country.
“To make a long story short, I had a 54-hour delay,” says Wright.
…. In Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, in Atlanta.
Knowing he would be “ATL bound” for hours on end, he had nothing but enough time witnessing an older woman struggling to make her destination.
“I went up to her and said, ‘Let me help you,’ and she said, ‘No, I’m fine,'” Wright recalls. “So, I went and got a coke and sat further down and I just waited and I watched her. She didn’t make it much far. I finished everything and got my stuff ready and I just walked up to her, took her satchel off and said, ‘Let’s go. Where are you going?'”
The woman, 65-year-old Cindy Tutko, is the mother to LSU baseball coach — Jamie Tutko.
“My mom has a bad knee. She actually tore her ACL three years ago and never it got it replaced. He helped her get all the way to her gate, told the TSA agent that it was his mom, that she had knee issues and that she needed to get on the plane first. So they let my mom get on the plane first.”