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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