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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Pickingupstraykids on 2026-01-13 04:03:48+00:00.
Okay so a few days ago I was on my way to meet a friend at a cafe, it was a bit far from our usual area so I wasn't very familiar with the surroundings and all. So I'm walk onto the subway and as I walk in through the doors, a guy immediately exclaims "stray kids!" about my bag which had a Kpop preference on it of the group.
We end up chatting throughout the ride about Kpop and whatnot and we're both pretty excited about it. Then, as I'm getting off the subway to the cafe, he also gets off at the same stop to go home. Since I needed to take a bus to the cafe and he needed to take a bus to go home we walked to the bus area together and he asked to exchange numbers to continue talking about Kpop.
For the past few days we've mostly just been texting each other about our favourite groups and idols but today he also mentioned something that started ringing some alarm bells in my head. So I ask him how old he is and it turns out the high schooler I thought I was talking to is a 13 year old. And I'm a uni student. I ended up panicking and blocking him but I feel so bad about this whole situation. Like, it feels inappropriate to be talking with him in the first place due to the large age gap and I feel like I should've already have asked for his age on the subway first. But at the same time, I don't want to hurt his feelings by just straight up blocking him after just asking his age
TL;DR: Met an avid Kpop fan on the subway who happened to be a very underage minor
also he was under the impression I was a minor