Today I Fucked Up

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Minigunz24 on 2025-12-29 23:45:09+00:00.

So, I was talking to a custodian that I typically have very long, friendly conversations with. We were talking about her daughter and wanting to give up her dog and I told her to talk to my girlfriend that works in another building. When I went to show her a picture to confirm we were talking about the same person the picture went through like a shuffle of photos of her and a very revealing (NOT fully nude) pic of her popped up. Of course I covered my phone immediately and I said “oh my god that’s a bad bad picture!” She didn’t say anything but gave me a look and we kept talking for a bit before she left.

I’m left feeling so terrible and embarrassed and my first thought was “I’m 100% going to get fired…”

So, we will see what tomorrow brings, hopefully she keeps talking to me and I can apologize profusely.

TL;DR Was talking to female custodian, referenced pic of girlfriend. Naughty pic came up on slideshow, I’m a disgusting idiot who hopefully keeps her job.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/SeriesFree2725 on 2025-12-31 12:45:58+00:00.

Maybe the most embarrassing moment of my life. I’m 20M, a sophomore in college, currently going to school for theater. A few weeks back we had a closing night party for our big university musical (I had a small part, because I can’t sing) at my classmates house. Suffice it to say I have a thing for this classmate. She is gorgeous, talented and really nice. We’ve always been friends and I’ve suspected she might have feelings for me too but we’ve never broken the ice and talked about it. I am known as the “hot straight guy” in our class so maybe it’s fate.

Anyway, we’re at the cast party. I’m not a big drinker but I have a couple beers and I’m talking to my crush and feeling very confident. At some point I notice the staircase, which is the kind where there are spaces between the steps. We have one just like that at my house back in my hometown, and I use to squeeze through it all the time. Looking at my crush I say, “Watch this,” and proceed to squeeze through.

Well, this one is smaller than the one at home. Or maybe I’m bigger than when I was 12. Either way, my chest doesn’t fit and my crush says to be careful or I’m gonna get stuck. To prove her wrong, I shove and shove and boom! My chest goes through.

Then I get to my butt. Everyone is always making comments on it, but I never really fully realized until that day- I got a big butt. And it doesn’t go through. No matter what. I push and push and… nothing. So I try and reverse… but my chest won’t come out. I’m stuck.

I start struggling. I can hear my crush laughing and people start gathering and giving me tips. Pulling my feet and pushing but nothing is working. I’m trying to laugh it off but… all people can see is my butt sticking out of a staircase. I can see the light of phones through the stairs, people poking and slapping and I’m basically a full on spectacle. Everything is tried, olive oil, pushing apart the stairs, taking off my jeans… but I can’t get out. I am stuck. In public. In front of everyone.

So after the best efforts failed the fire department gets called. They briefly try to grease me out, but that doesn’t work so they use a hydraulic spreader to push apart the stairs so I can wiggle back out. My crush had a hard time looking me in the eye after that. I can understand why. Suffice it to say, I am thankful af for this Christmas Break and am considering switching schools (not really, but kill me)

TL;DR I tried to be cool and ended up stuck in a staircase in front of all my friends

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Worldly-Crazy-3095 on 2025-12-31 12:31:32+00:00.

My wife and I both have kids from previous marriages so obviously this is a huge poor subject for us as it should be. Anyways we found out recently that her ex husband was arrested for creating AI child porn and also touching a kid. She had asked me not to tell anyone about it because she felt like it reflected poorly on her ( not sure how that reflects on her) . So I fucked up telling my son ( her step son) about it when we were talking about the subject of pedophiles . He went out with my wife to do something together just the two of them and he told her what I had told him. She is extremely pissed and I don't really know what else to do except apologize.

TL;DR : I fucked up by telling my son about his step mom's ex husband being a pedophile after she asked to keep it a secret.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/RepulsiveSpites on 2025-12-31 03:10:38+00:00.

I live alone with my dad. He’s retired and stays home most of the time since he isn't super social. He keeps himself busy with gardening and DIY stuff, but honestly, his favorite thing is cooking. He’s always on youtube or tiktok looking up new recipes to make for us, and he’s amazing at it.

Lately, I’ve been buried under a mountain of work and college stress. I’ve felt bad that I don’t get much time to spend with him, so I’ve actually been planning to surprise him with a dog soon. He’s obsessed with our neighbor's dog, and I thought it would keep him company while I’m busy. Yesterday, I was in my room struggling with my studies and feeling a lot of pressure from my job. My dad came in and asked if I could do him a favor. I told him I’d help him in a bit because I was right in the middle of something.

He came back up later and said the favor actually involved my friends and colleagues. I was totally confused. Then he explains that he needs me to help him with some slash thing on tiktok. I just snapped. I told him it was incredibly stupid and that I wasn't going to annoy my friends and professional coworkers with some silly game. He tried to laugh it off and said it was just for fun, but I got really rude. I told him to stop behaving like a 10-year-old and that I have enough real-life problems to deal with without his stupid games. He didn't even argue. He just got really quiet and went back downstairs.

The fuck up is that I realize now I totally overreacted. He’s a great dad. He spends his day making food and looking after the house and I talked to him like he was a nuisance over something that would have taken two seconds to handle politely. I feel like I completely crushed his spirit just because I was having a bad day.

How do I even make this up to him now?

TL;DR: My retired dad asked me to help him with a challenge while I was stressed with work. I blew up at him, called him a 10-year-old, and now I feel like a monster because he’s been avoiding me ever since.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Unfairamir on 2025-12-30 19:52:49+00:00.

I'm home from work for the holidays, and was left some instructions about a meal my wife wanted me to cook while she's gone for the day. I tried to ask her what dish it was but she was busy getting ready and just said "the instructions are on the counter." Couldn't be that difficult. I didn't ask again and went on my merry way. After she left I found the instructions and got to work.

First item, brown the beef and add it to the crockpot. Okay, easy enough. I open the meat drawer in the fridge and there's only 1 item, ground beef. I follow the rest of the instructions on autopilot. I'm handy enough in the kitchen but the majority of the cooking and meal planning in the house is done by my wife since she stays home during the day. I don't know what the dish is but if I follow the recipe, what could go wrong? I finish putting all the ingredients into the crockpot and... I have no idea what I've cooked. Onions, carrots, cooking wine, ground beef... oh well, who am I to question the all-mighty instructions?

Fast forward an hour and it's time to cook the kids lunch. I start poking around the fridge and... hidden on the bottom shelf, what do I see but a nice large chuck roast. I literally jumped back in shock. I looked at all my ingredients in the crockpot including onions, carrots, red wine, and browned ground beef and realize I was supposed to be making pot roast.

I had to excuse myself so the kids wouldn't see me crying. On the bright side it smells great... Wasted probably 20 dollars worth of food. Ruined the dinner my wife specifically asked me to make. I'll be eating ground beef pot roast for the next week as penance I guess.

TL;DR I didn't know what dish I was making for dinner and put ground beef into the pot roast.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Thefalsegamer177 on 2025-12-30 18:25:08+00:00.

So I’m in my basement installing a new electrical circuit, feeling moderately competent and dangerously confident.

Suddenly my boiler’s aquastat relay starts absolutely losing its mind. Clicking, buzzing, acting like it’s possessed. I shut the boiler off, assume I angered the HVAC gods, and decide to keep working.

A few hours later, the lights in my master bedroom start flickering like a low-budget horror movie. Then the WiFi starts cutting out, because of course it does.

At this point I’m convinced I either:

Wired something catastrophically wrong

Discovered a new form of household poltergeist

Am about to learn an expensive lesson

I start troubleshooting everything individually. Boiler? Seems fine. Lighting circuit? Fine-ish. Router? Annoyed but innocent.

Then I check the panel.

One bus bar is rock solid at 120V. The other is… freestyling. 114V. 105V. 90V. Just vibes.

Cue several hours of confusion, multimeter side-eye, and questioning my life choices before I call the power company, fully expecting them to tell me it’s my problem.

Utility comes out, takes one look, and goes: “Yeah, the sidewalk plow ripped the grounding strap off the transformer.”

Turns out the plow yeeted the ground, causing one leg of my service to sag randomly and make my entire house slowly unravel in real time.

So no, I didn’t break my boiler, my lights, or the internet.

A snowplow did.

TL;DR: Installed a new circuit, house started acting haunted, one leg of power dropped to ~90V, turns out a sidewalk plow stole the transformer’s grounding strap and gaslit me for half a day

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/sunshine89high on 2025-12-30 13:03:42+00:00.

Okay so I have some ongoing periodontal issues, 2 loose teeth. During a filling I had they pulled a ligament or multiple in my gums and 2 teeth are “mobile” from it. This was in October, pain was gone though and I have a referral to a specialist and once the new year hits I’ll make the call. Anyways I got my brother some riesens because he loves them and I decided to eat one since it’s been years. I’m eating it and if you don’t know it’s a fairly large caramel covered in dark chocolate. I get the chocolate off start chewing and realize that’s probably not the best idea but keep doing it because now it’s just stuck on my teeth finally finish it and omg this is day three and 3 of my teeth and my gums near those teeth and my jaw hurt. Do not recommend lol my teeth pain is subsiding but my gums and jaw just feel so bruised.

TLDR: I ate a riesen that was hella sticky and now 3 of my teeth my gums near the teeth and my jaw hurt. I feel super bruised 3 days later.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Cuznatch on 2025-12-30 10:59:12+00:00.

Not actually today, but 2 days ago.

It was Sunday night, my partner's parents had just left after being here for Christmas. We had been doing a lot of cooking, as is obligatory at this time of year, and so decided we'd get takeaway for dinner.

My partner wanted to try and Turkish place, so we added up the basket and it was £70+. I had fancied KFC, so suggested that would be like a third of the price, and she agreed. Oh how wrong I was.

Drove out to collect it, picked it up, munched a bit of BBQ chicken in the car park before driving home. About 5 minutes from the KFC, and oncoming car pulls into my lane to overtake someone. I remember thinking "They wont just drive into me... they wont just drive into me... they...oh fuck" and then a nice crunching sound, some spinning and some shock. Tried to get out of the car, but my door wouldn't open. The passenger door did though, so I climbed out of that, patted myself down and surveyed the damage.

Thankfully I wasn't severely injured, but looking at my car you'd be surprised I walked away. It was completely totalled, the front hanging off, windows smashed, wheel hanging off, the lot.

I checked the driver of the other car was OK, and he replied yes while reaching over the passenger seat so I walked away. After a few minutes, people started shouting "He's got a gun" (in the UK, so pretty rare). I only half believed it until a guy I had spoken to earlier said the driver was leaving, he tried to stop him and he threatened him with the gun.

The driver of the car he had overtaken pulled over to tell me to get in, but I saw blues on the horizon so figured I'd wait it out.

Ended up having to wait around for about 4 hours, giving various statements, while the Police found and shot the other guy in the end.

So far I've since spent £400 hiring a car for 10 days (the wrecked one was our only car after the other failed it's MOT spectacularly and wasn't worth repairing), £150 on a new car seat (thankfully kids were in bed when it happened), and £10 on a new watch strap. Oh, and we never did get to eat the KFC.

That £70 Turkish sounds pretty cheap right now.

TL;DR: Suggested KFC would be cheaper than alternative takeaway, ended up in a car wreck that's cost over £500 so far.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/wilder569 on 2025-12-30 10:05:53+00:00.

So I [M25] have been seeing this girl in my gym from the past couple of weeks. We haven't talked or met anything, just have had a few eye contacts here and there and a few hi-hello exchanges, nothing serious. Today while I was doing my cardio exercise of indoor cycling, I see her finishing up her weight training exercise and heading over towards me (her daily cardio part was left) so she came and started cycling on the cycle next to me. Again we exchanged hi-hello. But I noticed that she has colored/highlighted her hairs and her hair pony was looking all golden from the tip. And, honestly it was really suiting her and she was looking really great in it. So like any normal guy I went ahead to compliment her, and I said "wow! you got your hair highlighted, it is really looking great on you", she replied me with a normal thanks. Then I wanted to continue the conversation, so I went ahead and said "You look like Eevee today and the highlighted hair pony looks like Eevee's tail'" (pokemon reference) and started giggling. This entire thing was a compliment to her from my side. After this she looks at me with a puzzled look and says "thanks i guess" and it gets totally awkward between us. I soon realized that I weirded her out with my compliment so I quickly wrapped up my cycling and went away. The entire gym session I was feeling really guilty and sad about what I did earlier.

Tldr - Met this girl at the gym who was cycling next to me. She had highlighted her hairs with golden color, so I went ahead to compliment her by saying that she looks like Eevee from Pokemon.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Taikutsu4567 on 2025-12-28 21:59:16+00:00.

Probably just did the most embarassing thing of my life. Soooo me and my ex broke up on somewhat mutual terms about 2 months ago, and we were mostly no contact since then until for christmas she reached out to me and asked me if I'd like to get coffee with her as friends. I agreed because honestly at the time I had more or less forgotten about her and thought it'd be interesting to see if we could click it as friends

Long story short, it was not a good idea. The conversation was more or less normal and we discussed shared goals and ambitions for the new year, but I could feel feelings coming back as we were talking. Right at the end of the hangout we discussed our dating lives, and we both agreed that that just felt wrong, and maybe hanging out as friends wasn't a good idea, but we agreed to still talk about shared interests like books over text.

Right after I started getting this really weird attachment limerance feeling towards her, as though I was breaking up with her all over again. I literally went 48 hours non stop thinking about her and although I didn't want to tell her that, I couldn't help wondering if she felt the same. So there was this book that we were both coreading together when we were still together and she was still right at the beginning and I had just finished. I had mentioned that I was going to write a review and she said, definitely do but make sure to add a spoiler warning because I don't want to read it until I'm finished.

While writing this review I was still dealing with the aforementioned limerance so I added just randomly at the end the sentance "___ I still love you please take me back" and some other random bs ab how I was feeling at the time. Cannot stress enough, it was 1 sentance in a really really long review, that was covered by a spoiler header. I decided to keep it in for myself, because it was like talking to her without her actually knowing, and I uploaded it.

Anyways this limerance wasn't going away so I decided to outright ask her today if she wanted to see me again, and add that I still had feelings for her after she responded based on her response. Unfortunately she responded with "I think its best we keep no contact, I saw the review and it made me very uncomfortable". I cannot stress enough that I didn't want her to look at it and I want to shoot myself so so much. I responded with I understand and a short reason as to why I put that in the review and how i didnt mean for her to see it. and I said yeah lets do no contact. She also blocked me on goodreads, but not on any other social media for some reason.

I don't want to ever even see her again, but how does my ego even come back from this? I genuinely want to move countries because of this.

TL;DR: Reconnected with ex, and caught feelings again, decided to put them in a goodreads review that she said she would't read. Decided to eventually try to confess them but she said she already read the review and it made her really uncomfortable. Then she blocked me on goodreads. and I want to die.

EDIT: After some thinking and reading through the replies I realize what I did was weird and I shd have told her directly from the start. I'm worried that she thinks that I was trying to go out with her again without disclosing my feelings, because before i confessed I asked her if she wanted to see me again. Should I text her one last time to explain things?Or just leave it as it is and accept the fact that she might think I'm a creep.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Emergency-Lawyer-431 on 2025-12-29 18:47:45+00:00.

Obligatory this didn't happen today, it’s been happening for two weeks, but I found out an hour ago and I am currently hyperventilating in my garage.

My son (13) has been begging for this specific Roblox skin called "Headless" for months. It’s like $300 or something ridiculous. Obviously, I said no. We’re tight on money. My wife and I have been scraping together cash for a down payment on a house for literally four years. We finally hit $25k in savings last month.

Here’s the fuck up. I use my old iPhone 12 as a "house tablet" for Spotify and controlling the thermostat. My son uses it sometimes to watch YouTube. A while back, I set up his FaceID on it so he wouldn't bug me for the passcode every 5 minutes.

What I forgot is that my Apple Pay is linked to our main joint savings account, and because I am an idiot I didn't require a separate password for purchases if FaceID is verified.

Apparently, he didn't just buy the skin. He got into these "wager" servers on Discord. Basically, kids bet limited items on coin flips. He lost the first few items, panicked, and started buying currency to try and "win it back."

He realized that because the phone notification settings were set to "Stack," he could just swipe delete the bank alerts as they came in. He’s been doing this for 12 days.

I only found out because my card got declined at the gas station this morning. I checked the app and saw the balance was $6,000.

I thought I was hacked. I called the bank screaming. The lady on the phone was looking through the charges and asked, "Sir, did you authorize forty-five transactions to Apple.com/Bill?"

I went home and grabbed the old phone. He hadn't even closed the app. He was in a Discord call with some random teenagers who were hyping him up while he just burned through our life savings.

Total damage is roughly $19,400.

I confronted him and he just completely shut down and started crying, saying he thought he could win it back before we noticed. I haven't told my wife yet. She’s at work. She thinks we’re touring a house this weekend.

I feel like I’m going to throw up. I don't think the bank is going to refund this because it was biometrically authorized. I just ruined our lives because I was too lazy to type in a passcode.

TL;DR: Let my son use a phone with his FaceID enabled, he gambled away $19k of our house fund on Roblox casinos and hid the notifications. My wife comes home in 3 hours.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Additional_Breath_89 on 2025-12-28 14:08:21+00:00.

(Not today, a few weeks ago)

My house has a downstairs bathroom with an extractor fan - and the extractor fan vents outside the front of my house. There are also no windows. My house is right on a small pavement, with my parking spaces opposite it (it’s not as bad, or fancy, as it may sound!)

A few weeks ago I came back from work at about 8pm, parked up, and walked past the extractor fan vent.

Either my wife or one of the kids had it on and… clearly had a dicky tummy.

I’m 6’2. My nose is at the exact same height as the extractor fan vent. I stood by the vent to get my keys out, and got blasted in the face with… what was extracted, shall we say.

Not the worst FU. Not by a long shot. However it t certainly stuck in my mind.

TL:DR - I got blasted in the face by shitty trumpy smells when finding my keys, next to the bathroom extractor fan.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/ilovecats13___ on 2025-12-29 12:12:18+00:00.

I (19F) got my first job two weeks ago, and I have to work exactly 4 days because my dad's boss needed someone to fill the spot and I was a perfect candidate since no one want to work during the holidays.

Now this is a very easy job, I wake up at 4am, I don't have a license, so I have to get there by taking two different buses and I clock in at 6am and clock out at 6pm. Now this is kind of exhausting, today is my second day and yesterday I was unable to sleep for whatever reason, so when I woke up this morning none of my braincells were working at all. I get to the company and my role is in the porter's lodge, I don't really have to do much other than go on a walk to make sure nothing's on fire and open the office building, don't even have to take in packages.

The first day I didn't have anyone coming in, it was bliss, I binge watched my shows, ate and even studied for my exams, I mean it's the holidays so none of the office workers had to come in right? RIGHT? no, this middle aged man opens the gate and takes his car inside, I'm like cool he has a key he works here, so he comes in to ask me if I have the keys to the office and I'm like hell yeah! We go, I turn the alarm off, everything is going smoothly and I'm like hey! My dad's going to be proud since he thinks I'm useless and he's the one that got me the job. The worker gets into the office, mistake number one, I activate the alarm, I close the door and close it with the key, you might wonder why, well I have no fucking idea of why I did that, as I'm walking back to my spot this alarm starts blaring and I freak out, I run back and the worker is looking at me like a deer looks at flashlights, I start panicking, I open the door, turn off the alarm and call my dad, he loses it on me, he was driving back home from his night shift, he yells on the phone, he tells me the police is coming and that I'm done for, I start crying, the worker had already left back to his cubicle, I'm panicking, and I see my dad's BIL run towards the office while he tells me to calm down, I calm down and I swear that I'm never having a job again and that I hate the adult life. If you're wondering why for fucks sake I would turn the alarm on when I was leaving while someone was still inside it's because in my mind the alarm was connected to the door so it would go off if there was some forceful opening of it, but no, turns out it tracks movement even inside the office where the cubicles are. Sighs

Sorry if this was long lmfao it was chaotic but everythings good and now I'm not allowed the keys to the office, so everytime they have to close I have to call my dad's BIL. He's pretty chill but I am so not working here again.

They gave me a uniform, which after this I'm giving back (while keeping the jacket bc I really like it) and never returning out of embarrassment.

TL;DR I accidentaly closed the office door on a worker, activated the alarm when he was still there and had to call my dad's BIL to solve the problem for me

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/idunnoknowhowtoread on 2025-12-27 05:46:03+00:00.

Today I am almost 4 months clean but I had to pick up a gram of cocaine. I’ve been feeling very lonely lately and disconnected from male attention. I’m later 30’s single and still trying to stay hopeful that there is a person for me. Last few weeks nothing feels good anymore especially the gym which is my happy place last 3.5 years. Every time I do well I end up back here again. I have no kids, never married, workaholic, no pets and I live alone. I put away the bag after having 6-7 lines because I started to feel weird. If you use or used to use you know that creepy little feeling that creeps inside. Will I be like this forever I started at 15 and am damn near 40. I feel like a huge pos. I was doing things leading up to this to prevent me from using that gave me the same effectiveness: mainly having sex with random men from my gym and yes some are in relationships which makes it that much more intense at the time but the crash hits harder too.

TL;DR late 30’s female addicted to cocaine breaks recovery will I be a dirt bag forever?

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Impossible-Athlete70 on 2025-12-29 08:08:04+00:00.

honestly i am just so done with today and i feel like the universe is literally laughing at me at this point. i have been struggling with my finances for a while now and i finally made the hard decision to sell my car because i really need the money for my rent and some bills that have been piling up. i spent my whole afternoon scrubbing every single corner of that car. i mean i was out there with a toothbrush cleaning the air vents and everything. i wanted it to look brand new so the buyer wouldn't have any reason to try and talk me down on the price.

i finally finish around 7pm and the car looks incredible. i park it in its usual spot in the garage and go inside to finally get a shower and relax. not even ten minutes into my shower i hear this absolutely massive crash from the garage. i literally jumped out of the shower and ran out there in my towel because i thought someone had crashed into the building or something.

come to find out a major pipe in the ceiling right above my car decided that today was the day it wanted to give up on life. the ceiling is completely gone and my car is buried under a mountain of wet drywall and this disgusting rusty brown water sludge. the inside was a bit open too because i was letting the leather cleaner dry out. it is a complete disaster and there is no way i can fix this in time. the buyer is literally supposed to be here at 8am tomorrow morning and i have no idea what to even tell them. i actually want to cry lol.

TL,DR: i spent four hours deep cleaning my car to sell it so i could pay my rent but then a pipe burst in my garage and covered the whole thing in rusty sludge and drywall right before the buyer was supposed to show up.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Infamous_Bad_6007 on 2025-12-29 05:33:22+00:00.

So, I (21F) like to swing in my backyard to decompress. Sometimes I go out in the middle of the day and sometimes I go out at like 9:00 at night when I get off work. My whole family knows and doesn't care. I just sit on the swings listening to music with my earbuds in, drifting off into La La Land. This time was no different. Now I do have to mention it was a bit chilly outside and it was at 9:22 when I went outside. I was only wearing Hello Kitty PJ'S as it was the only warm-est PJs I had at the time. So, I'm swinging for a good 20 minutes when I see my mother come out to check on me. Now I thought it was because the swings were being too loud as they do creek every time I swing or she was telling me to come inside because it was late. No, she just goes back inside so I continue doing my own thing. The nice thing I have to mention is my headphones were on full volume so I couldn't hear a damn thing. She then comes back out and gestures for me to come over to her, and I did. Still assuming my original thought.

Well, it turns out a backyard neighbor called the cops on us! They called the cops concerned that a 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL is outside swinging with no proper winter attire on. Scaring the crap out of my mom because no kid under the age of 14 should be outside. I can't find it she has a 10-year-old nephew but no daughter. She had to walk up to the cops after checking the backyard to tell them that instead of a 10 year old girl, it was instead her 21-year-old daughter. Safe to say she told me to come back outside between laughs.

So apparently me wanting to swing in the middle of the night in Hello Kitty pajamas was calling the cops worthy. Guess next time I have to wear less "kid-ish" attire or put on a coat so we don't have the cops on us again lol.

TL;DR: I went outside to swing in my own backyard in Hello Kitty pajamas as adult. Nosy neighbor called the cops on us thinking I was a child swinging in the dark.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/DumpsterPuff on 2025-12-29 01:58:41+00:00.

My wife and I have a terrible habit of letting things go bad in the fridge, namely produce and leftovers. We take turns cleaning out the fridge and it was my month today. We had a TON of cheap to-go containers filled with leftovers that we haven't touched in God knows how long. I get kinda overwhelmed easily and starting chores is a gigantic mental block due to my ADHD.

My therapist suggested at one point that I turn chores into a game to see if it makes it any easier. To my surprise it did work for some things, like seeing how fast I can fold my laundry and try to beat it next time. I thought about how I could possibly turn cleaning the Darwinism from my fridge into a game, then I thought of it: garbage can basketball!

All the containers were sealed pretty tight and I kept the garbage can only a few feet from me, so I wasn't concerned about them busting open. Afterwards, I moved on to the produce. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to move the garbage can about 10 feet away for this. I got all of them in with no issue.

My last thing to throw out was an english cucumber that was still completely wrapped. It definitely felt soft, but I didn't really think much of it. I tossed it towards the trashcan, where it bounced off the rim, hit the ground and exploded.

It was basically equivalent to a water balloon popping, except with the rotting stench of death. I had to race to toss my cats into the bedroom so they wouldn't go over to it, used an entire roll of paper towels and tons of lysol. I literally had to put on an N95 mask and put vicks vaporub on the inside of it so I wouldn't smell it as bad, but it only helped about 75%. It took me about half an hour to clean it all up. I'm never fucking buying cucumbers ever again.

TL;DR: Played garbage can basketball with rotting produce to clean out my fridge and I missed when throwing a cucumber, which exploded on the ground and made my apartment smell like a corpse.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/trashmxbile on 2025-12-29 01:05:47+00:00.

So just for honesty's sake this was not today but yesterday. The owners of one of my(24f) jobs often has work events we can participate in and they are always fun from my personal experience. This one in particular was through a company that bar hops on a vehicle that has multiple bicycle pedal stations. The owner herself is pregnant so she was not drinking while just about everyone else was. Well the owners husband moved to the empty spot that had pedals and the instructor insisted that someone sit with the owner because of her being pregnant and i love this woman so i volunteered. during the time we were sitting together we had some light conversations. one of them being me telling her that i would get on my hands and knees to help her down if needed. So me thinking it was funny i did just that when we stopped. My boyfriend/coworker(20m) gave me a weird look but i thought nothing of it. He and i are the first to leave because he had gotten mad about something unrelated. the rest of the night goes well and we get ready for work together and things are fine. I go to work today for my bf and his moms bf( both are coworkers) to have talked and then collectively decided that they needed to have a talk with me and tell me that i embarrassed myself, my boyfriend, and his mother by getting on my hands and knees. And before i know it my bf/coworker has begun to ignore me entirely. finally at the end of the day he asked me to talk outside and informed me that because of me getting on my hands and knees to jokingly act like a step stool for my boss that our relationship was in fact over.. So my PSA to you all no matter how funny you think it is, no matter how drunk you are, and no matter how much you think a person accepts you, DO NOT and i repeat DO NOT get on your hands and knees for anyone in public.

TL;DR: I got dumped for getting on my hands and knees for my pregnant boss at a function for coworkers.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/EpithanyRae on 2025-12-28 22:18:50+00:00.

Last night around 2AM my stepdad and I were watching movies in the living room. Now, he's not really a conservative guy, but he does get a little squirmy around homosexuality, especially if he's been drinking.

He told me to put on whatever movie because he was going to go to bed (aka, he'll watch the first half and if he loses interest he'll go to bed). I saw Honey Don't! and didn't think much about it beyond "I like Aubrey Plaza, sure" and didn't think to look up the movie beyond the description, which didn't really mention LGBT or anything sexual in it.

Now the first few scenes we did notice a bit of LGBT things, lesbian main characters and such, not a bit deal. Then the early drug scene where the guy who owes money tries to suck a guy's dick as "a favor" between payments... Well that stuck out as, maybe this movie is going to be a bit more than I hoped to watch around my step dad.. but we persisted for a bit. Then came the bar scene...Aubrey Plaza fingering the lead character on a date, turning into her head between her legs, very quickly.

I shut the movie off, apologized and he went to bed, slightly traumatized, thinking I did this on purpose. Oops.

TL;DR I unknowingly threw on a B-list Lesbian movie to watch with my homophobic step-dad over the holidays.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/StatementBeginning20 on 2025-12-28 19:29:19+00:00.

For the past few years, I’ve been spraining my ankles constantly, sometimes almost every other month. I’ve always known I have weak ankles, but I didn’t realize just how bad it actually was. I usually just brushed it off and moved on once the pain faded.

Fast forward to today. My brother was begging to go ice skating, so my mom booked a two-hour slot at the local rink. I tried to stay positive. I put on my skates, stood up, and immediately started shaking. I couldn’t walk without nearly falling over. We even got me a walker, but I was still struggling badly.

Now I’m sitting on the benches while my mom and brother skate, scrolling through ankle exercises and realizing this might be more serious than I thought.

TL;DR Didn’t realize how bad my ankles were until I tried to go ice skating and couldn’t even walk while off of the ice

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Hot-Taro-1555 on 2025-12-28 05:12:13+00:00.

Me and my friend were standing near a mini market when a guy pulled up in a fancy car (a Mercedes, though I don’t know the exact model). My friend said that when the guy finished shopping, he would approach him and ask if he could give us a ride.

When the guy came back to his car, my friend walked up to him and literally said:

“Could you do us a favor, can you ride us in your car?”

I started laughing so hard I couldn’t stop. To me, it sounded like my friend had just offered some kind of 3-some ### service 😭

And judging by the look on the guy’s face, I’m pretty sure he didn’t just think we were asking for a ride. He answered "I am in hurry, I can't", my friend asked "what...?", he repeated "I am in hurry", my friend added "we will give you a Pringles", he refused saying "No".

We went our separate ways. After that, my friend was upset with me because I kept laughing. He insisted that the sentence doesn’t mean anything like that at all.

So here’s my question:

Does it actually sound like that? And do you think the guy might have understood it the same way I did? Can you also make explanation where this meaning is hidden, I tried to explain him in all ways, he didn't understand 🤧

TL;DR

My friend tried to ask a guy in a Mercedes for a ride but said, “can you ride us in your car,” which sounded very wrong. The guy looked shocked, refused (even after my friend offered Pringles), and left. My friend insists the sentence was normal, but I think it accidentally sounded sexual. Did it come across that way to a native speaker?

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Luke_starkiller34 on 2025-12-27 20:26:13+00:00.

Tldr had my appendix taken out Xmas eve, now I have to eat flight costs on travel plans that are canceled.

So this week has been super eventful! Tuesday I wasn't feeling particularly well. Body felt a bit off. Bad headache all day and a stomach pain that persisted through pain meds. Around 10pm I broke out in a 102 fever, chills, sweats, and overall fatigue. My wife and I thinking I just have a bad stomach bug decide I'll take some Tylenol for the fever and sleep it off!

Wake up the next morning around 4am just doubled over in pain. It's Xmas eve though and I'm thinking I just need to get through the morning and I'll be fine! This will pass! By 10am though it wasn't letting up. I was dry heaving and constantly in pain! So off to the ER!

We check in at 11:45 and after loads of waiting and tests and waiting and scans and meds, they tell me my appendix is inflamed and the surgeon will need to open me up like a kid opening a gift Xmas morning. Great!!!

I go in surgery at 6 and come alive at around 7:30/8 I'm unsure about that part, and chat with the staff about football for around 10 minutes before they kick me out and I'm back home by 8:30 (9 hrs in the ER).

Now I'm home recovering having missed Xmas eve with my immediate family and had a little time with the wife's family for Xmas which was nice. But I'm on lots of restrictions like lifting anything over 5 lbs, which means I can't help out with a lot of chores around the house, help with the baby, put away Xmas decorations…etc. But the worst part? The worst part of all of this? I had plans to visit my brother (who we haven't seen in 7 or 8 years) for the new year in Pennsylvania (I'm in California).

We were going to spend a week out there so he could meet his new niece. Now I have to cancel our flight plans and here's where the fuck up actually hurts me…southwest doesn't refund basic fare. They give you flight credit dated to expire 6 mos from purchase date. We bought these flights months ago, so now we have until March to use the flight credits or we lose them entirely!!

So now having my appendix ejected cost me Xmas eve with my family and over $1400 in canceled flights. Oh and a $100 car rental cancellation fee. Merry Xmas everyone!

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/get-cucked1 on 2025-12-28 04:04:17+00:00.

This is going to be long, so sorry in advanced. I, F(23) have been with my boyfriend M(24) for 1.5 years. We are long distance between two European countries but see each other once or twice a month and for long periods over the summer and university breaks and it’s very manageable. We’re both studying our masters and we’re busy enough so it feels fine. I am going to move to his country in 2 years when I finish.

For the first year of our relationship things were so good. The sex was great, passion was amazing and I was so certain I had found my person and was making plans to spend the rest of my life with him. In the last 6 months, he’s been increasingly less interested in sex, but still very lovey dovey, so I was confused. I know it’s not physical, cause I’ll be honest, I look great naked and anyone with eyes and who is attracted to women would agree, so I honestly didn’t know what was happening.

He eventually opened up that his mental health wasn’t the best but he wasn’t ready to talk so I gave him time and didn’t press it, but just before christmas whilst I was staying with him I pressed a little more and got some of why he’s been feeling bad.

He says that he loves me so much and doesn’t think he could do better than me, but he worries that he’s trapped and that he’s spending his youth in a committed relationship whilst he’s never travelled or anything by himself. He also wants to do Erasmus (study abroad) and isn’t sure he wants to do this in a relationship. He is adamant that he genuinely wants to spend his life with me, hence why he feels so bad about feeling this way, but just wanted to tell me where his head is at.

When I pressed him more later that night, he also told me that whilst he was clubbing, a girl asked if he wanted to make out with him and he said no and went home, but he only went home because he was very tempted and wanted to say yes.

Other than all this, I know his mental health is very bad and he’s quite fragile, so I feel like I can’t even respond in any normal way without putting him at risk of harming himself, but also, we don’t have sex, the passion is gone, the love is so strong but I am just not happy and I feel like an idiot for staying with him and planning my whole life around moving to his home country and learning his language.

I told him I will give him time to talk to his psychologist and figure it out because I don’t want to abandon him over overthinking, but I don’t know how long I’m supposed to put up with being so sincerely unfulfilled.

Other than this he is an INCREDIBLE boyfriend and is so so so kind, loving and supportive and he is my absolute world, I never want to know another person as minutely as I know him, I’m so comfortable with him. That’s why this is so awful.

Any advice is appreciated :/.

TL;DR: I messed up by asking my boyfriend what was really wrong with him and found out he’s not even sure he wants to be in a relationship and whilst he wouldn’t cheat on me, he feels very tempted when offered. Don’t know if I should bother staying.

Edit: ok maybe ‘I know I can’t do better the. You’ sounds suuuper douchey but what he meant was that he is unsure he’ll ever meet and get into a relationship with someone he loves and values as much. Also the sex thing is complicated and I told him he needs to go to therapy about it asap because it’s extremely detrimental 😪😪

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/JediJacob04 on 2025-12-27 05:30:10+00:00.

I work at a liquor store, and it being the 26th of December, it was relatively very slow today. Near the end of my shift, me and a coworker had nothing much to do, so I jokingly scanned a miniature bottle of alcohol several times as if he was a customer purchasing that many bottles.

To keep the joke going, I then scanned an entire box of pre-made shooters (something like 40 shooters at $3 each), several times once again. The total was something like $2,500 at this point.

My coworker then has the bright idea to check the system and find some expensive wines that were sold and are still in the system, and finds one worth several thousands of dollars (almost $10k), and sets the quantity in the POS to 999 (the maximum allowed). By this point, the running total is ~$9 MILLION, and we’re cracking up (we were extremely bored). He then finds ANOTHER bottle, this one nearly $20k, and sets the quantity to 999, bringing the total up to ~$28 MILLION.

Now, this is where I’m personally responsible for the fuck up; I pretended to bring the transaction up to the point right up to when you confirm how much the customer is paying in cash (it automatically assumes the customer is paying in full, and the only thing stopping the transaction from going through was single press of the “Enter” key).

My coworker didn’t see that I was already there, and mistakenly pressed “Enter” to reach the same point I had brought us to.

$28,000,000 in theoretical cash made its way into the cash register’s balance.

I yelled at my coworker to ask WTF he did and he realized what he had done and his eyes went wide.

We immediately tried to reverse the entire transaction, but (understandably), there’s a $1 million maximum that you can return at a time, so attempting to return $28,000,000 of “sold” alcohol didn’t work. After figuring out the maximum, I then had to do dozens of returns each worth $1 million at a time until every single bottle of alcohol was “returned”, and the inventory was corrected from -999 to 0.

However, in the reports for that day, it’ll show $28 million in revenue and a similar amount in returns, which will completely fuck up stats and graphs and everything, which higher-ups will obviously inquire about.

I’m going to go wait for my store manager tomorrow morning before she comes in so that I can explain what happened and confess that we were joking around and never meant to go through with the transaction. Please pray for me and my job (I 100% accept that we are at fault and deserve some sort of punishment for exaggerating as much as we did, and for not working when we were supposed to).

TL;DR: Me and my coworker pretended to ring up a $28 million transaction as a joke, and then accidentally went through with it, fucking up the store’s stats for that day even if we managed to “return” the products in the system.

Update: My boss was understandably frustrated and disappointed but the worst that can happen is the higher ups will meet and they’ll probably decide to give us warnings/it’ll be in our files, but nothing more.

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/OkBake8220 on 2025-12-27 01:05:27+00:00.

Bless the little Latino woman at the shop downtown that I frequent...

I was going in to grab some Mexican Cokes and some Conchas and a few other snacks. And she was really wanting to give me gifts (some small chocolates) and I was like "No no it's ok- I- it's fine r- are you sure- ok- oh the other flavor? I- no-no you're a small business you don't have to- I- o-ok..."

As I was leaving we were talking about Three Kings Day but the Mexico tradition. Breaking the bread and finding baby Jesus. Now, I'm aware of this tradition as I have an ex who was Catholic and we celebrated Three Kings Day with like a dinner with family? I'll be very honest it makes sense, but I was never explained the specifics beyond my own research into the Bible and Christianity when I was figuring out my religious inclinations. Anyways! She was saying how she didn't want to assume my religion or make me uncomfortable, but she wanted to give me another gift. And I, being religiously ambiguous and very open to (almost) all religions said "Oh! I'm not religious in any particular way." And she lit up.

I have been given rosaries, Mary Magdalene figures, etc. before and I always try to be respectful, often leaving them in churches or even like the food/blessing boxes with notes. Try to keep the good vibes passed on and going for those that truly might need it.

She held up a baby Jesus doll. I was both very confused and also intrigued. Some things I think got lost in translation, and I thought she was gifting it to me to give to someone else. After some research, I have realized the complete error of my ways.

If I understand, you break bread on three kings day (it is a specific type of bread with a baby Jesus hidden in one). Whoever gets Jesus becomes the godparent and then has the baby Jesus for the year. You dress it up, swaddle it, etc. and on what would be the pagan holiday of Imbolc (Feb 1 or 2) the godparent hosts a party with tamales and such.

I have several issues in this situation:

• I am not Christian, and while I could wholeheartedly swaddle and set him in a church for another that feels horribly inappropriate (it is quite literally the size of a preemie newborn)
• I do not want to be meanspirited, even if the doll is kinda freaky looking. (Very long eyelashes, very slay)
• I live in an apartment
• I am a pagan
• All of my close friends are pagan and none of us have children
• I have no idea how to make tamales

So... To anyone willing to take this seriously and not attempt to convert me (please respect this), how do I proceed? I feel bad I didn't outright say I was pagan, but I also try to be kind as I know gifts from religious individuals is truly from their heart. It isn't always a means of conversion, and even as a pagan I respect the positivity that these gifts can showcase. But... I have a baby Jesus doll sitting on my desk, currently wearing one of my doll wigs because the plastic hair looked atrocious, and don't know what the most respectful thing to do is. My pagan friends are on board with incorporating it into our Imbolc festivities since I mean, Goddess Brigid, but I don't think any of us want to be disrespectful.

We've thought about dressing him in a swaddle or in Brigid's colorations for Imbolc, letting it be the lamb she carries. But I (again) don't know what would be considered inappropriate or not.

TLDR; I have accidentally acquired a Baby Jesus Doll used for a specific Mexican Christian holiday that I only just learned it's meaning for, and I am a pagan with no idea how to proceed. Please advise????