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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Typical_Goat8035 on 2026-01-05 20:53:07+00:00.
TLDR: Was supposed to drive my partner home after surgery, but he insisted we go to Bed Bath. He “came to” and caused a scene believing he was in the afterlife.
This is a story we always tell at dinner parties (I feel like I owe him that) so I figure I might as well share it here.
So this was around the time The Good Place was airing, my partner had abdominal surgery. I’ve personally never experienced anesthesia first or second hand and was nervous enough about my SO going under. After discharge the nurse told me (amongst a million other things) to take him straight home. However, my partner sounded super lucid and went on about wanting to get bathroom organizing stuff at Bed Bath now that he’s done with the surgery. It made enough sense that I agreed. I left him in the organizer section while I was looking for an associate to help with a high up item.
Maybe 5-10 minutes later several employees were jogging to that section and I get there and my partner was basically loudly yelling at people in a completely out of character way. Like I’ve never seen him yell or be violent but he was trying to yank off one employee’s hair! Later on he tells me that his first memory after the OR was waking up in Bed Bath and Beyond, and he thought this was hell and the store employees were devils (just like The Good Place). He has zero memory of him convincing me he’s fine and wants to go to Bed Bath, or what happened with the employees.
FWIW we are still together and now both laugh at this story but at the time it caused quite a bit of drama, both because he felt I dropped the ball and most people thinking I’m horribly irresponsible. I also felt sorta uneasy for a bit processing if my partner might hurt me in a lucid dream but luckily he’s been his sweet usual self. Next time he has surgery he’s getting locked in his room for a week!
EDIT: thankfully nobody got in trouble and the employee wasn’t hurt. I had his discharge packet in my pocket and mall security and the employee were sympathetic to me profusely apologizing.
EDIT 2: just to answer some common replies en masse:
- The nurse gave a bunch of discharge instructions mostly about wound care and medication, the one sentence about going home didn’t really register in my mind until later
- wanting to redecorate/reorganize was very on brand for him so knowing nothing else it wasn’t a red flag, I was mindful not to let him lift anything but the fact that he was still drug impaired didn’t cross my mind at the time.
- I’m not trying to make excuses but it was genuinely a mjndfuck to my young self that my SO talking to me lucidly about something he wanted to do is something I should ignore.