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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/YesYesYesYesYesYesnt on 2026-01-02 04:19:06+00:00.
Here we go. Today I (16F) fucked up by trying to catch a lizard. I am in Mexico on vacation, and I am a huge critter lover. I love the giant crickets and spiders and iguanas and everything else creepy and crawly. So when I was coming back to my room after a big dinner and bigger bathroom trip, (a whole story on its own) I saw a lizard on the ceiling above our room door. As I pointed this out to my mother, a fool proof plan formed in my head to catch the little guy. I ran inside, put our leftovers down, and retrieved a stool from the bar in the kitchen. I propped the heavy door open, and shimmied the stool into the hallway right outside the door. Wearing my nice white dinner dress and dark eye makeup because I’m a baddie like that, I climbed up into the stool.
My fool proof plan became not so fool proof, as the tiny guy quickly ran into a hole on the door frame. Disappointed, I stood there on top this stool, in front of my room door, floor length dress on, eyes like a raccoon, when footsteps enlighten my ears. A man in his probably 40s walked past the hallway, carrying an Amazon box. Now’s a good time to mention the light was out in my particular hallway. His footsteps froze once he was past the hall, and he slowly backed up back into my line of sight. Me, being the awkward teenage girl I was, didn’t say anything, I froze man. I swear I could hear this man’s fear from miles away. He asked “are you okay?” In the most concerned and scared voice I have ever heard.
Insert my response, a distorted “Hello,” as I had just had prime rib for dinner, with extra horseradish, and it took this moment to make me sneeze. When I tell you this man bolted so freaking fast. This poor guy. Can you imagine being an Amazon driver coming across some girl down a hella dark hallway, standing on a stool, in a flooring white dress, with dark freaking circles around her eyes croaking hello at you? This poor man. Quickly I got down and brought the stool back into our room. Golly it was embarrassing. Not the biggest fuck up, but for that man it certainly was, coming across literal Carrie on your nightly Amazon delivery, sheesh.
TL;DR tried to catch a lizard in a hallway of a resort by standing on a stool with dark eye makeup and long white dress, scaring the shit out of a delivery guy.