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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/emily0817 on 2026-03-04 00:49:52+00:00.
my bf and I were on our way back from a friend's birthday party and on the way back he said he wanted to stop at CVS for something. I was already 3 beatboxes in, and had been hitting my cart like a vape for past hour. I think to myself "oh nice, I kinda have to pee so maybe I can go in and use the bathroom." thinking absolutely nothing was wrong with this idea. I'm beyond messed up at this point, and I can barely keep my head up or eyes open, and honestly should've just waited the extra five minutes till we got back home (right down the road).
we pull in and I'm slapping myself on the face to wake myself up and act normal, since I'm literally high and going into a pharmacy. as we walk to the door, I notice a cardboard cut out of a man sweeping the floor. I see nothing wrong with a cardboard cut out of a man sweeping the floor in cvs, and just stare right in its eyes as we continue our way inside. once he passes the door I heard an employee say "hey what's up?" and looked in his direction when I also entered. it was a regular real man holding a broom and sweeping the floor, but I don't register it's a person until he lifts the broom off the floor. and boy when he did, I probably jumped back five feat out of shock and genuine terror. he gave me a really mean face and said "is there a problem?" and my boyfriend said "no, sorry she just needed to use the bathroom" and dragged me away.
he told me to go straight to the bathroom and go to the car, and I could tell he was upset, and I thought it was at the employee. I listened to what he said, and when he got back in, he goes, "you're not doing this again." he said that I wasn't going to get drunk and high anymore because I let my "true self show." then he said that he couldn't see himself dating a racist and I needed to fix my behavior or he'd be gone... when my boyfriend went to check out, the man (who he always sees up there) told him not to bring me back if I was going jump out of the fear of seeing a black person.
the man was black and thought I was being racist. I'm still too messed up to take anything seriously, and I tried to hard to explain to him why I was laughing so much and eventually managed to tell him I didn't think he was a real man and thought he was cutout. my boyfriend repeated back to me what I told him, and the whole time I was noticing his mouth crack more and more into a smile out of disbelief and relief. I was howling the whole way home as he kept telling me that he's not letting me out of the car next time I get like that and he's explaining the whole situation to the guy next time he sees him while trying to still act upset even though I could see the smile on his face. we both just laughed about it again an hour ago.
TL;DR: I went into a CVS drunk and high and thought the black employee at the front of the store was a cardboard cut out. he accidentally scared me when he moved, and thought I was a racist which lead to my boyfriend threatening our relationship until I explained.