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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Phail on 2025-12-09 23:02:34+00:00.
It was last night, but I've seen much older things, so ๐คท๐
I'm touring with a dance troupe, we're in NZ at the moment. Staying at a pretty nice, but unremarkable hotel (based on my hotel experience, which is minimal to this point in life apart from this tour.)
I had some dirty dishes building up; congealed coffee and day-old chicken scraps, and figured I should do some dishes washing. Crap goes in sink, plug in, detergent in, hot water on, wait.
Phone rings. It's my partner, so I grab my headphones, do a little bit of faffing getting them to talk to the phone, plug my phone in, and we start chatting. I completely forget about the sink. For like 20 minutes.
At one point the call dropped out, and I took my headphones off... And that's when I heard/realised.
Fuuuuuck. Fuck. The tiles are 2cm deep under water, it's saturated the carpet. I get busy mopping up with towels and wringing them out in the sink, and the downstairs neighbour knocks on my door, it's running through into their room too.
Fuuuuuck ><
Hotel owner was really good about it, got a dehumidifier going and some fresh towels, and told me not to worry - while also mentioning that the carpet downstairs is only a few months old and cost a packet to install.
Fast forward to this morning and my rooms carpet is fine, but downstairs has to be replaced. It'll be an insurance job, but it's still getting charged out to the company I work for... Something tells me that this is gonna be the last time I work for them.
TL;DR: forgot I was filling the sink in my hotel room. Flooded my room and the room below me, costing the company I work for a tonne of money & making me feel like a right idiot.