Today I Fucked Up

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/IndependentFee3611 on 2025-07-24 14:03:12+00:00.

This happened today and I’m still recovering from the cringe. I was chatting with a colleague on Microsoft Teams, venting about how drained I’ve been feeling lately. Meetings back to back, barely any time to actually get work done. I jokingly typed something like, “If I have to sit through one more ‘quick sync,’ I might actually fake a network issue and disappear.” Meant it as a joke, sort of.

Except I didn’t realize I had my manager’s chat open. Hit send. Immediate regret.

About 5 minutes later, she replied with a simple: “Let’s catch up after your next call.” I spent the next hour spiraling.

When we talked, she was surprisingly understanding. She said she noticed I’ve been a bit quiet and wanted to check if I was okay. I explained I didn’t mean any disrespect, I was just overwhelmed. She actually thanked me for being honest and said it might be time to rebalance the workload.

Still, I feel like an idiot. I keep replaying that moment in my head, wishing I could undo it. Definitely triple-checking every chat window from now on.

TL;DR: Meant to send a joking complaint about meetings to my coworker. Sent it to my manager instead. Had an awkward but surprisingly supportive follow-up conversation.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/lonestarhawkeye on 2025-07-24 05:28:09+00:00.

I am in Vegas for a work conference for three days. I met a girl from South Korea in the elevator ride to my room after checking in. I helped her with her bags after I saw her struggle getting them in the elevator to our room. We exchanged Whatsapp contact info and messaged each other throughout the week.She told me she's visiting all the major US cities before she went to South Korea. On the last night, she sends me a sexy picture on whatsapp telling me I was cute and she was sad I didn't find her attractive. I did not get the vibe she wanted more than friendship from our conversation but I was wrong. I told her we could meet up downstairs, have a drink and take it from there. She messaged back saying she changed her mind. This isn't the first time I had a girl tell me I missed the signs. TL;DR: I have a problem picking up girls signs they want more than friendship. I didn't pick this south Koreans chick signs...in Vegas..

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Piscivore_67 on 2025-07-24 04:01:30+00:00.

This happened last week. I was in the hospital for a severe infection, which is a recurring problem because of my cancer. This time was bad, I passed out waiting to get a cancer treatment. I remember little besides brief flashes of EMTs annd an ambulance roof. I was hallucinating and dissociating the whole time in the ER and the next day. I really thought my ticket was getting punched this time.

This story isn't about that, it's just background.

A few days later, I've got a ton of antibiotics, hydration, and five units of blood pumped into me and I'm feeling much better. My parents were visiting and my mom and I were having a nice conversation about movies.

A little more background, my mom is racist against self-aware robots in fiction. Has no use for them.

I was telling her about the movies I had seen recentlyI really enjoyed, first Sinners, then Companion.

As I was describing Companion, she suddenly said "Is that the one where the guy and the little robot break into the library?"

I said "Mom, not every robot movie is Robot and Frank!"

A second later the entire floor staff burst into my room, including a cardiology nurse with an advanced heart monitor. Apparently, I got too excited and it caused some kind of cardiac event. Took an hour for the staff to decide I wasn't in imminent danger, but they did put me on medication to stabilize my heart rate. Wacky fun. I'm still laughing about it.

TL:DR: I got too excited talking about movies while a hospital patient, causing a huge cardiac alert among the nursing staff.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/immaturedoods on 2025-07-23 23:01:04+00:00.

So, hi. I’m back once again.

As I said in my post. I am 20 years old. And I have cerebral palsy. My caregiver and I were strolling at Walmart. We both were strolling in the freezer section. And this guy walked up asking if we needed water. I said yes, thinking he thought from somewhere else. But, he did give me a water bottle from the employee section.

Now, I had wandered off because I was a bit chilly. And I guess while I was gone to the game section of Walmart, he came back and asked for me. Wondering where I was and all that. He apparently said he thought I was really pretty too. Now, at that point my caregiver had told me that when we had left the store and heading back home. Now, my caregiver thinks he was a little too old.

TL;DR: met a guy that seemed into me and I missed the chance to ask him for his number

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/RageAndWar on 2025-07-23 21:50:16+00:00.

I’ve been seeing a few women romantically the past few months. None of them are exclusive, but I like each of them quite a bit.

I like to send TikToks to them based on who I think would enjoy it. Often times, I’d end up sending the same TikTok to a few of them.

Within the past hour, I found a pretty funny one that had a slight sexual undertone. I meant to send it to a girl I’ve seen already (we’re actually supposed to meet again tomorrow) and a girl I recently started talking to again (no dates yet).

Instead of sending it to each of them separately, I accidentally created a group chat with the 3 of us and it was sent there. They have never met and this TikTok is the only thing in that group.

I deleted the group on my end and resent the TikTok to our respective 1-on-1 conversations. Waiting to see what they say and hoping for the best.

TLDR; I sent a TikTok to two women together instead of separately, hoping it doesn’t come back to bite me in the ass. 🙏

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Funfetti_Spaghettio on 2025-07-23 18:48:35+00:00.

this is my second account since this is crazy.

I recently got married and I went to my folks yesterday to add the pics to our albums. when I went to the basement to grab the family albums, I ended up just flipping through out of curiosity, and noticed a guy I didn’t recognize in a LOT of the pictures.

my mom has a huge family so I don’t know everyone, but this guy was in photos of just her, her parents, and my late aunt.

the weirdest was a Christmas card that had everyone’s names on it. the naming system in our culture is complex, but you only share a last name with your mother and siblings (unless you get married and change it), not with cousins, grandparents, etc. Well this guy was listed on the card and had my mom’s maiden name as his last name.

my mom ended up coming in since I was taking so long and I asked her who it was and she tried to say she didn’t know. I kept pushing and then she got upset and left.

my dad asked when happened and I showed him the picture and he immediately looked uncomfortable and told me to drop it.

well after a LOT of nagging (like, hours) he told me. that guy is my mom’s older brother who is serving life in prison. my dad refused to say more because it’d upset my mom, and my mom is ignoring me, which is really unlike her - she’s very communication orientated.

I have an older brother and I haven’t even told him yet since this is so insane I feel like I’m dreaming. how could they keep something like this from me for so long? especially since he was in pictures where my mom was a teen, and her and my dad started dating around that time so that must mean my dad knows him too right?

anyway it’s been a day and my mom is still not talking to me, this is seriously so weird.

TL;DR: accidentally discovered mom’s secret brother (who’s in prison) and she’s upset.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/ThingCalledLight on 2025-07-23 17:19:31+00:00.

This was over 20 years ago, but it’s kinda funny and thought people might enjoy my teenage pain.

I was in high school and The Phantom Menace had recently come out. When I saw it and the STAR WARS logo appeared, everyone cheered their asses off.

Cut to a lecture being given at my school a short time later. 200+ students, all boys school, and the teacher had put the STAR WARS logo clip in his PowerPoint presentation to spice it up a little.

Instantly, I shout “WOOOO!” and start clapping like I had in the theatre a short time ago.

The thing is, I wasn’t doing this to be a little shit. I somehow, in that moment, stupidly, fully believed everyone in the lecture was going to do the exact same thing. That we were all onboard with a thing that I had zero reason to believe we were all onboard with.

So there I was, alone, in a quiet lecture hall, cheering for STAR WARS. I was not a popular kid (you think?) and everyone just started snickering and laughing at me. The teacher goes, “Mr. ThingCalledLight, see me after class.” And I sat there thinking, “why the fuck did I do that?”

I can’t recall if I got detention or not. I was generally a good kid and the teacher may have let me off the hook. But it was embarrassing as hell.

TL;DR: Hooted and hollered in class over Star Wars thinking everyone else was gonna do it with me for no good reason whatsoever, fully embarrassing myself.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/SubmarineRadio on 2025-07-23 00:09:17+00:00.

So this happened today, and I still can't stop cringing.

I had to take a pre-employment drug test for a new job. No big deal, I’ve done dozens of these during my time in the military. If you know, you know: the military way is full-send, no shame, pants and undies around the knees, standing there like you're about to get hazed, while some poor soul stares directly at your junk to verify you're not faking it.

Anyway, I show up to the testing facility, sign in, get called back, and the guy hands me the cup and leads me to the bathroom. I just go into autopilot mode. Drop trou, pull down my underwear, start doing my thing… totally exposed.

That’s when I hear the guy’s voice through the door: “Uh… Sir? I don’t have to watch you pee. I just have to stand outside the stall.”

Cue me realizing I am full-on pants-down in a civilian bathroom like I’m back in basic training, even though no one is watching. Just standing there, exposed for absolutely no reason, like an idiot.

I quickly finished, cleaned up what little pride I had left, and shuffled out of the bathroom like a dog that knocked over a vase.

The guy didn’t say anything afterward, but I swear he had that look in his eyes like he’d just witnessed something both confusing and mildly traumatic.

So yeah. TIFU by forgetting I’m not in the military anymore, and accidentally giving a solo performance in the drug test bathroom.

TL;DR: Did a drug test like I was still in the military. Dropped my pants fully expecting an observer, but turns out civilians don’t need to see the stream. Now a random guy at a clinic knows way too much about me.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/DoughnutMaestro on 2025-07-22 22:57:23+00:00.

I went to use the microwave tonight and found a plate of chicken nuggets inside, it was like some awful science experiment and I think I might just need a new microwave, about three weeks ago I cooked chicken nuggets for tea, there were some leftover so I put them in the microwave on a plate to cool down because our house seems to be a fly magnet and I didn’t want anything to land on them. I must’ve forgotten them, over the last three weeks we’ve had an unprecedented heatwave in my corner of England and the microwave is directly opposite the massive window that gets direct sunlight in the afternoon, it gets so warm on that side of the kitchen that chocolate stored over there is usually liquid and some disposable plastic cups we got for a party and put in front of the microwave were unusable because they were too soft.

As soon as the microwave door was opened it smelled like death!

Tl;dr chicken nuggets left in a microwave for three weeks in a heatwave smell like death.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/HugBlob on 2025-07-22 22:31:29+00:00.

This literally just happened lol and I am so embarrassed good god...

So, I was invited by some friends of mine for a Summerween party (for those who don't know, it's a thing from the show Gravity Falls. People in the town celebrate Halloween both in the summer and on the actual day because they just like the holiday a lot. It's cute!) now, I SWEAR on everything I own, that the invite I was sent said that it was on the 22nd, and I believed that ever since the day I was sent the invite.

So come to the day I get in costume and everything (since it is a Halloween party so everyone is encouraged to wear costumes), I buy some snacks for the party, and everything is looking good! I feel a little hot and uncomfortable in the costume and makeup, but it's worth it cause I think it looks great. Once the time comes around, I get in my Uber and head off to the location that the party was said to be held at. When I get there, I noticed there weren't any cars so I was like, "Huh- weird. Let me check to see if I came too early or got the address wrong." Then- in big bold letters that I somehow missed, read: July 31st. A whole week from what I thought the date was. So now I am standing in front of someone's house, in a bright blue wig, desperately trying to call another Uber fast enough so that whoever may be inside the house doesn't notice that I am there. Luckily, I don't think anyone saw me- but good god I have never felt dumber in my entire life.

TL;DR: I thought the date for a party said July 22nd when it in fact said July 31st. I did not realize this fact until I got to the location of th party.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/moldybeercheese on 2025-07-22 00:17:49+00:00.

I'm a literal minded person and now I realize no matter how much a facebook post says "everyone is welcome" and "the whole (where I live) can come" it doesn't actually mean that. But wow, they really drove that point home.

The mom and daughter were so disappointed when it was me and no kid. The girl had no friends to come over and the mom made me feel so sorry for her. I felt like I was that girl in 5th grade and really wanted to just bring a present for her. (Got what the mom said she liked and a giftbag).

But it gets worse, since even coming late I was still the first person and then they were so sad and seemed to hate looking at me after that. I wanted to b-line to my car but the grandpa didn't let me! He said I had to stay for food now so I did even though people didn't talk to me very much but the guys were cool I guess.

Then after a while grandpa says "maybe it's a good time to uh, leave? Cus we don't really know you. Thank you for the present" and now I can't stop thinking about this sad girl and her house and her yard with trash in it that doesn't get picked up. I'm so sorry to be such a disappointment and I hate when what was meant to be a good deed gets punished.

If you tell me I'm a dumb piece of crap, yeah I already know. I can't stop thinking about what a dumb piece of crap I am to be honest. So you can't hate me any more than I already hate myself.

Tl;dr: tifu by going to a little girls party. "Everyone is welcome" does not mean show up without a kid.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Gloomy_Phase_3628 on 2025-07-21 21:27:05+00:00.

This was a few months ago. It was my day off and the only thing I had to do was pick my girlfriend up from work at 9:00 pm. Other than that, I was free to loaf on the couch from morning to night, which is what I did. Around 8:00, I decided to shower before I left the house. Now, I have short hair that dries pretty quickly, but I am deeply vain about it, so I always dry it with the hairdryer right after I shower to ensure my hair doesn't get flat and weird. I never skip this step. So, I get out of the shower, start drying my hair...

And then I wake up in bed. It's half an hour later. I feel like garbage, my entire body mysteriously hurts, and I am slowly realizing that I don't remember exiting the bathroom. My only clear thought is: "oh shit, it's 9:00! I have to pick up my girlfriend! Better shake myself awake*.*" I dragged my aching carcass back to the bathroom, and this was when I noticed the massive blisters forming all over my hand. I was still pretty out of it, but I knew that this was a hospital visit kind of burn. My girlfriend then called to check in because I was running late and, despite my undoubtedly convincing argument that I was still perfectly fine to drive, she immediately knew something was wrong. She cabbed home and we got a ride to the ER.

Turns out, I had my first ever seizure! It seems like during the seizure, I clenched the hairdryer in my fist and had it pointed at my other hand long enough to thoroughly cook it. The tissue loss is pretty deep in some areas and there was concerns about me retaining my mobility, but it's been healing well so far.

If I had showered at any other time, I probably would have been reclining on a soft surface when I seized. Instead, it had to happen while doing the only possibly risky activity I could muster up the energy for that day (aside from picking my girlfriend up; thank christ I wasn't driving). In the end, we spent 10 hours in the ER between all the scans and tests, I was bedridden for almost a month, my license was suspended, and I'll have some gnarly scars for the rest of my life.

TL;DR: Spent the whole day in the safest possible position to have a seizure. Had a seizure during the 5 minutes it takes to dry my hair, resulting in severe burns.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/bad-at-everything- on 2025-07-21 10:36:08+00:00.

I was in jiu jitsu class. I am the only woman so I think people assume I would not fart. I am lactose intolerant so it was bad- silent but deadly. I could not hold it back with the exercise.

First time the guys around me all started blaming each other. They were angry that someone dared fart near me. They said that they do it all the time when no women are around but since I was there they needed to be classy. Second time was when the instructor was talking to me. The instructor turned to the guy next to me and angrily said “I am talking to HER! Why did you have to do that when I I am talking to HER!”

I let them take the blame and did not speak up. It was embarrassing and hilarious at the same time.

Tl;dr I had gas and let the other guys take the blame

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/cutegirljth on 2025-07-21 17:43:49+00:00.

I’m known in my friend group as the one with a strong stomach, so during a game night, someone brought ghost pepper chips and dared me to eat a handful.

Being the clown I am, I downed like six. For five minutes, I felt invincible. Then the devil arrived.

Stomach cramps, nausea, sweating like I ran a marathon. But the worst part? The gas. Explosive, unrelenting, loud-and-proud farts that made everyone gag.

I excused myself to go home but didn’t make it far. My stomach clenched so bad I collapsed on the sidewalk outside my apartment. Neighbors saw. I was curled on the pavement like I got sniped.

An ambulance came (thanks to a kind neighbor who thought I was dying), and I had to explain to an ER nurse that my digestive system was waging war over some spicy chips.

I’m now banned from spice dares forever. My friends made a trophy that says “Most Likely to Explode.”

TL;DR: Ate ghost pepper chips to flex. Ended up crop-dusting game night and nearly passing out from the cramps. Ambulance was called. Dignity was lost.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Blondellamma13 on 2025-07-21 15:50:01+00:00.

Kinda more like today I realised I fucked up to be honest but hey ho.

My son is 2 years old and for the longest time when something unexplainable happened like a broom just casually falling over, a car horn in the distance or even just someone tripping, me and my wife would joke that “oh it must’ve been the wind”. There’s been no malice in it if anything we’d laugh about it.

Today my son is currently refusing to go outside at all because of the wind… all his favourite things are outside but nothing is working to convince him to go. I honestly wish I was joking cause this is pretty funny but this is honestly probably gonna cause some issues when school rolled around. We also live on a coastal island in the UK so it’s windy almost all year round.

Anyways hopefully someone else can learn from my mistake and not become a elderscrolls npc and somehow scar their children.

TLDR: taught my son it must’ve been the wind when unexplainable things happen and now he’s afraid of the wind.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/DaniTheKid00011 on 2025-07-21 04:41:43+00:00.

We had a group activity and we had to use our phones for research. Our teacher was walking around inspecting each group and the moment he was inspecting our group, I opened my browser and there was porn I forgot to close. No one else saw the porn except my teacher and I was shocked and quickly closed safari, he then laughed then teased me after his class was done. He is a pretty chill and cool teacher, he's really young and he's gay too, (not that it matters but I just wanted to point it out) but it's still stressing me out and I'm so embarrassed about what happened. I know he's the cool and chill type teacher but I'm still stressed out and embarrased.

TL;DR: My teacher saw porn on my phone while doing a group activity and I'm embarrassed and stressed out for no reason.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/FunApplication3532 on 2025-07-21 04:39:32+00:00.

So um i just need to say this so hopefully it will erase the scene from my mind, but i walked in on my parents today.

My baby sister (2) was crying outside of there door as usual, because while my mom is trying to sleep train her, she does wake up in the middle of the night and eventually make it back to my parents room. But I guess tonight was different; so when my sister was crying outside of their door and no one came to get her after 5 mins or so, I came out of my room and went to bring her to my parents. Usually when this happens my mom tells me to bring her into their room, and that was exactly what i was doing when I walked in. I heard no sounds but the tv so I assumed that they were sleep. Wrong. Soo so wrong.

I wont go into detail because: a) thats gross. b) I dont want to think about that w my parents. and c) I never want to think about this moment again.

All I’ll say is that i saw my dads butt, said “okay. Nope. ”, left the room, and shut the door. 5 mins after that my mom texted asking, “What did you need??” and I answered “the baby was crying outside your door” to which she left me on read. I was going to follow up with “i thought you would’ve heard her” but tbh i cant talk abt that w her. Anyways, to end it off I walked back to my room and shut the door, my sister is sleeping w me tonight i guess.

Btw im in highschool and the oldest girl of all my younger sisters, so having to share a bed doesnt faze me. All of this happened just now and im writing this here to get it off my chest cause writing it in my diary means ill end up looking back to it and i NEVER wanna do that.

Big fuck up. goodbye.

TL;DR: walked in on my parents today and I feel scared, gross, and never want to go through that again.

EDIT: —> Just to adress some things in the comments:

1. Im in highschool and i’ll make mistakes, this is one of them. Please know that not everyone is perfect and fuckups WILL happen, im still experiencing things rn.
2. The door wasnt closed. Like i said before my mom is sleep training my sister, and because of that she leaves her door open at night so when my sister wakes up in the middle of the night, she can just walk in. The door wasnt wide open, just a crack so i figured when i walked in they wouldve been asleep.
3. I respect my parents privacy. Knocking isnt a big thing in our house but i do it anyway, just not this time because it was around 2:30 in the morning and i was woken up. Knocking wasnt the first thing on my mind. (a simple mistake)
4. Thank you to all the comments that are trying to help me cope lol, this isnt a serious situation i was just shocked and embarrassed in the moment.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/_Current_Joy_03 on 2025-07-21 02:49:06+00:00.

Real-life jump scare today at work 😭

So I’m out there, minding my business, whipper snippering like a pro-then BAM. A full-grown huntsman spider (I’ll let you Google their actual size, go ahead… I’ll wait 😭) crawls up my leg and onto my arm.

I screamed so loud, my whipper snipper went flying, headphones launched into orbit, and I almost passed out on the spot. I was full fight-or-flight, and let me tell you-I chose launch sequence mode.

But okay, I try to pull myself together. I’m like, “It’s gone. I’ll just get my gear and move on.” Nah. Plot twist. That eight-legged demon returns like it’s in a damn horror sequel and jumps BACK ON ME.

At that point I fully blacked out mentally. I jumped the fence, threw myself on the ground, and screamed like a five-year-old at a haunted house. Meanwhile, my coworkers were probably watching the whole thing dying of laughter.

Real life jump scare. Huntsman said round 2.I was gone.

TL;DR: Got ambushed by a massive huntsman spider at work. It crawled up my arm, I screamed, launched my gear, almost passed out. Thought it was over… then it jumped on me AGAIN. I fully panicked, jumped a fence, hit the ground screaming while my coworkers watched. Real-life jump scare. Still not okay. 🕷️😭

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/chrishasnipples on 2025-07-21 02:41:40+00:00.

I’ve had a gaming PC that I frequently upgrade with the latest parts and use to play triple A titles (required by my job) and also use it for a multitude of different work tasks. About a year ago I thought it was a great idea to purchase a mini fridge from Walmart.. (One of those small 15 can mini fridges made by FridgeAire) To stay hydrated while I work and play some games.

Well, today on my day off I decided to go and play some games.. midway through my PC gave me the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death)

Without knowing the issue I kept trying to restart it but it kept shutting down.. Until I realized my mini fridge was leaking onto/all over my custom built PC.

Immediately I shut down the PC, unplugged it, and started to dry off all of the components.. However, I have a feeling it’s fried for good.

TL;DR: Mini fridge leaked all over my custom gaming PC

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/JobMysterious8530 on 2025-07-21 00:14:55+00:00.

(F 19) i wish i could explain to you what was going through my head last night when i shaved my eyebrows clean off. i was drinking a bit with a friend and didn’t expect to get that drunk cause we were just having some coolers (legal drinking age where im at is 19 btw so its legal lol). but i guess since i havent drank much in months it hit me hard and my friend wanted to do some weird makeup on me. she said “ugh i could do this cool look on you if you didnt have eyebrows, you should shave them off” she meant this as a joke OBVIOUSLY. but my dumbass gets up, walks to my vanity and shaves off my eyebrows before she even could realize what i was doing. i actually shaved them so fast i cut myself a little in the process but it luckily didnt hurt. now i have no eyebrows and tomorrow morning i leave to go visit my family for a week. im already pretty alternative looking but the eyebrows take it to a whole other level. luckily im an artist and draw alot so im actually not so bad and drawing on some fake eyebrows thought i think its still pretty obvious that theyre drawn on </3 i live with my mother and surprisingly she hasnt said anything about it yet (ive kept them drawn on when im around her though) but u cant tell if shes saying nothing because she genuinely hast noticed or if shes just fed up with my shit because she also didnt say anything when i cut my bangs shorter than angelina jolie in girl, interrupted.

TL;DR got a little to drunk and took a joke to serious, now i have no eyebrows and im going on vacation tomorrow.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/astakask on 2025-07-20 21:34:04+00:00.

I live in Canada and even when it's not one of our 9 months of winter we lack places with sun and sand. So a while back I went to California for vacation with 3 buddies to visit a long time friend who lives in the greater LA Metropolitan area.

LA has some great bars with lots of attractive women and we did plan to go hopping for at least one night. For me that was not the fun activity, I only tolerated it because I haven't drank for 5 years. I have good reasons to avoid alcohol, I drank too much for too long due to PTSD from over a decade as a paramedic. I don't have similar feelings about THC, I'm the usually the last man standing in a joint smoking contest. It's not destructive for me, I'm in a good place with it. My American buddy knows this and planned ahead for me, I sent him a few hundred bucks so he could order me some edibles and other canabis products for my week long stay.

The night we went out, the first 2 bars we went to I just smoked a joint outside while they smashed tequila. Fun was had all around. At our 3rd bar, I abandoned joints and started in to edibles. I ate 3 packages in about 15 min before I ate and finished my 4th, my friend caught that one because he said. " you should slow down, that might be more than even you're able to handle dude, you aren't a weed smoking demi-god ". I was confused, 50mg per package is normal, 200mg is a high but manageable dose for me. It concerned me when my friend pointed out that each package was he provided contained 500mg not 50mg, he ordered them online and didn't buy them at a public serving store. I didn't know that was a thing, I buy all my weed from brick and mortar stores. I took a dose 10x higher than I would have because 500mg per pack translated to 50mg per pack in my brain, which was in line with my province's rules on legal weed sales for max THC. I wasn't yet too high for math, so I understood what I did. 2,000mg is a factor of 10 higher than my goal, it's a scary number and would be very expensive to achieve for 1 sitting where I live, so maybe that's why I blanked on the extra zero. Good thing he stopped me, I had more on hand as a ' just in case'.

I wasn't concerned I was going to die, I've worked in EMS long enough to know a " fatal marijuana overdose" isn't something that happens. I knew I took more than was probably going to be fun at times however. I was correct. That was the highest I have been since the time 25 years ago when I first smoked too much ganja at age 14. I'm not gonna lie, that was very uncomfortable for a few hours, I wasn't close to normal for about 4 hours. I stayed at the bar because my friends didn't find any humor in letting me escape the consequences of my illiteracy, they thought it the height of comedy.

I eventually got back to Basecamp and was much more careful when reading labels until we flew back to Canada. I still miss the freedom to do that. I finally understand the phrase "AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!"

TL;DR: I took 10 times more THC than I planned because my preconceived notions caused me to misread a warning label in a different country.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/ShipToasterChild on 2025-07-20 20:58:18+00:00.

Obviously not in one day but over some time.

Had talked with a friend about book series he had read growing up and he had mentioned both Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter as his favorites. He had said that one of the series you read in a weird order: 2-4-5-6-3-1-7.

For whatever reason, the numbers I remembered but misapplied to the wrong series so I started with Chamber of Secrets and didn’t read The Sorcerers Stone until very late. I started to suspect I had made a mistake as I was nearing the end of Stone.

When I told him I had read the series but didn’t understand why I had to read in that order, he was flabbergasted and perhaps a little annoyed I didn’t pay more attention to him.

Tl:dr misremembered something a friend said, read Harry Potter in an interesting order

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Alternative_Run_6116 on 2025-07-20 18:42:10+00:00.

I've always been obsessed with the psychology of clapping. Why do audiences clap longer for certain things rather than other things? Also, how do we all collectively know when to stop clapping? Is it a hive-mind type of thing we're all tapped into?

Then there is the standing ovation, which blows my mind. Why do some standing ovations catch on, while others fail?

I developed a theory that the success of a standing ovation rests solely on the first person to stand. If that person stands with enough confidence and enthusiasm, the rest of the people will stand too...

I decided to test my theory at the community center today. Some old lady made a humongous quilted blanket that depicted a bunch of orange and yellow cats wearing floppy sunhats. She was donating it to be auctioned off at the bazaar to raise money.

After she brought the quilt up, everyone started clapping nicely. I was in the third row, and I stood up very confidently and and conspicuously and starting clapping with force.

I looked around, but not a single other person was even making the smallest motion to budge out of their chairs. After a few seconds, I sheepishly sat back down. My theory must have been flawed...

Now everyone's going to think I'm ultra obsessed with cat quilts!

Tl;Dr: standing ovation made everyone think I'm the type of guy who gives a sh*t about quilted cats wearing sunhats.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Mysterious_Drawer_77 on 2025-07-20 13:55:35+00:00.

So I (F29) just recently started on Mounjaro, prescribed for diabetes. I started having tummy issues fairly recently and just assumed it was a side effect. Loads of people online and in patient groups report having sickness and diarrhoea. I started taking loperamide, so I didn't crap myself at work and just plodded on.

Recently my husband started noticing food we bought was going off very quickly despite us just buying it. Sausages, meat, yogurts with over a week of date just tasting funny. It happened so gradually we didn't realise. We bought a fridge temperature from amazon to double check that the fridge was working all good. Our freezer was working fine, so we didn't suspect anything was wrong. We have also historically had issues with supermarket foods going bad quickly due to quality. Well it turns out, its not any of those issues. Our fridge is currently sitting at 15 degrees Celsius. Three times the ideal temperature. Not only have me and my husband likely been eating expired food but I have foolishly been thinking it was down to starting Mounjaro! I feel like a complete idiot. We have now started trying to troubleshoot the fridge issue, so wish me look.

Edited to add: My husband has an iron gut so he tends to not get as ill as I do!

TL;DR. - Started on Mounjaro, known for gastrointestinal issues and thought my runny bottom was a side effect. It turns out my fridge has not been working and was three times hotter than the ideal temperature.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/MirioftheMyths on 2025-07-20 02:07:25+00:00.

l live in New England and I am house-sitting. Maybe pet sitting is a better description. Either way, I'm supposed to basically live at this house for two weeks. A handful of adorable cats and dogs. Easy money!

Except...

The light was on upstairs after I came back from the store. I did not turn it on. I am certain I did not turn it on. It was not on when I slept last night. I have not gone to that floor more than once because the cats don't go there, there are no litter boxes to scoop, and there are no open doors the cats could get into. I thought maybe it had been on the whole time, but then the light was turned off when I checked later on today.

They didn't say anyone would be staying with me. If someone else was here, why would they need a sitter?

I checked the rooms but found no one. Nothing else has really indicated another person is here. No food missing, no cooking. Some noises like someone walking around or like plumbing is running somewhere, but it's an old house.

I haven't seen another person. But how else would a light turn on and then back off again?

This is not a smart home. It's old and falling apart.

I have to tell myself they're on a timer, but it's freaking me out. The cats and dogs seem calm. Surely if the pets are calm, there's no intruder. The homeowners are unreachable.

I can't leave the pets. I agreed to watch them and they're very picky about their litter boxes (will poop in the sink if they aren't scooped twice a day.) also, I need to replace my windshield and so a house sitting gig will help me save for that.

TLDR; TIFU by agreeing to housesit and potentially rooming with an intruder. I can't do anything about it because if I leave, the pets would be on their own.

ETA: The homeowners are unreachable, and nothing else in the house operates on a timer. The light is on the ceiling, and both the light and the switch are identical to the rest of the lights and switches in the house.

Update!! Got curious. Took out the bulb. Not a smart bulb. Relatively new looking, no soot in the bulb. Flipped the switch and the light turned on.

Second update: Checked the attic! No one was there. Kinda small for anyone to live there. Family is relatively new to the area. Fixture is not a smart fixture. Dogs are small. Have not heard any additional noises tonight. Doors are locked now, no one is in any room of the house. Going to bed under the assumption a cat flipped the switch, but leaving hot cocoa out for the ghosts.