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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Dovahkiin_73 on 2026-03-25 14:24:16+00:00.
I'm absolutely embarrassed by this mistake and I should've figured it out sooner. We're expecting some groceries today from Walmart, but don't exactly know what time. So I kept an eye out and looked out through the peephole, seeing a guy knock on the door towards my direction. I live in an apartment and there is another door nearby the door the guy knocked at. I figured our groceries were already here and walked downstairs and outside. But I noticed there was a lot than I expected. I didn't make the order, my mother did, so I don't exactly know what she ordered. As I'm sorting through the items, I also noticed there are a few foods that I wouldn't often see either of us order or choose. Though I chalked it up to my mother going through shark week and started bringing in the groceries. It wasn't until I saw a guy come out from the downstairs apartment I realized these may not be mine! The man wandered and looked around, wandering where his groceries were and I stayed out to make sure they were his. He turns and asks me about it and that's when I went 'oh shit, these aren't ours'.
Immediately, I hurry back up and began returning all the bags and other items to the guy. I triple check making sure I didn't miss anything. I apologized and explained to the man the driver knocked on the wrong door and I assumed it was ours. He's probably pissed and thinks I'm a lowly thief now. Worst part is I've never met that man before so I made the worst first impression. I usually don't care what people think of me, but I wouldn't steal someone's groceries intentionally. So that was absolutely humiliating and this makes me want to crawl to a dark corner and just perish.
TL;DR: I accidentally stole a guy's groceries, thinking it was mine. I apologized and returned them to him.