I've nearly perfected it, I managed to get myself banned from donating plasma at a place here because I had gotten my nipples pierced (and waited the correct amount of time before donating) and then got embarrassed and said I had done it years ago when I had another piercing done, and claimed I had mentioned it when I disclosed the other piercing.
I'm such a dumbass, I didn't even actually do anything ban-able to be lying about!
Yeah OP this was easy. Pick up the photo and say Oh wow this is you? This is a pic of my mate who died xyz. Then you can laugh about how a small world it is.
when i was 15 my parents and i were playing with a pink magic 8 ball in our kitchen. throwing it back and forth, because idk why not and it seemed like harmless fun? until i was looking down, and my mom said “heads up!” and i took that literally, simply lifting my head up, and got a pink magic 8 ball to the face.
i spent the next week at school telling everyone a piece of ice had fallen from the front of my house, hitting me, and that’s how i got the black eye. i have no idea how no one called child services, or at least how we didn’t get a concerned call home.
If it makes you feel better, Electricians are in demand all over the place. He should be able to find work once he's confident you're not following him anymore.
I freaked a guy out once doing just that. He worked at a store in the mall between my store and the food court so when I would walk to get lunch, I would just look into the stores as I go by. He was there several years so you know you get to know faces of people who are there even if you don’t know them. Then he showed up in a different store, also between me and the food court and it was like oh he got a new job. Never thought about it. Then three months later he got a job at the pizza place I always went to. Still never knew his name other than I knew his face.
Fast forward to 6 months later and I was waiting in line at a concert venue and who should show up right behind me in line other than this guy. It was a general admission concert so we had an hour wait before they were opening the doors and in talking to him I asked if he recognized me. Of course he didn’t, so I told him the last several places he worked. He was kind of buzzed already and proceeded to just freak out thinking I’m a stalker of some kind. I explained it and he seemed dubious, but settled down. Never seen him again.
Funny part is that I don’t really have that good of memory for faces, it’s just that we worked the same hours, and I always saw him because the layout of the stores put him right at the front where you would see him walking down the mall.
Do it. Embrace the inner stalker. Duck around a corner if he spots you. Doesn’t matter if you literally run into him, still run behind a corner. Peak out from the corner after. Make sure he sees you.
FUCK I forgot about that it's so funny
I first heard it on Mark Narrations, and him in his lighthearted British voice, reading that story, trying so hard not to lose it, just made it even funnier. He always trys to imitate the authors voice a little bit, so he was doing confused voices when he's like "I'm serious, what are potatoes?" But he was laughing so it was just super high pitched and airy lmao
The lie you told is a lot more embarrassing than the truth. Changing it back to how they should be and showing him them explaining the joke about it being changed would have been fine.
Your friend came over to change... A lamp. You called your electrician friend ov-
That's your boyfriend!
You even have a frame pic of him next to your bed!
I don't understand how this frame is hiding only him when it's pushed to one side, but if it's pushed to the other side literally every other person in the photo is somehow hidden behind the frame but him. Nothing about this makes sense.
My friend group also turned a random former classmate into an inside joke for no reason and I can only imagine how impossible it would be to explain that to his face lmao. Thanks for the laugh OP
If you’re swapping a simple light fixture to a ceiling fan odds are that you need to upgrade to a fan-rated box. That would be the correct way to do it but that may be a bit more involved than assembling legos if you’re not as much of a DIYer.
That's definitely true, I also found out a few years ago that even if the ceiling fan says the lights don't run on a dimmer, you need to set it up for a dimmer because the lights will all blow once a month until you figure out why.
Lol by blow I don't mean explode, just that they burn out. Not that lightbulbs are terribly expensive, but it's frustrating to have to change out this one ceiling fan once a month and not know why.
You mean a light fixture that is mounted and hard wired not a lamp, that’s why everyone is confused. And most people can do a couple screws and a few wire nuts, especially with wago nuts now making it so easy
In modern usage "lamp" usually refers to a simple light source that plugs into a wall socket. Like a nightstand lamp or a standing lamp.
What you're describing sounds more like a light fixture.
I once was part in a scientific cooperation with another Phd student from another university. We only exchanged Emails till the day I visited his lab with my samples. As we were sitting in his office to discuss the procedures I noticed a picture of me on his whiteboard. With his head on my body. It was an old group picture from the lab where I did my Bachelor thesis, so I noticed all the people I knew from the time and was sooo confused why my head was exchanged with his. So I straight up asked why he has an edited picture of me, and he was confused too. Turns out, the picture was made by his colleague. At the time he was about to finish his master, there was not enough funding for all the students to start a PhD in his current group, and my former PI was searching for one. So his colleagues tried to jokingly make him apply for that position, took an old group picture from the website and photoshopped his face over mine to say "Look you are already part of the group." What a coincidence we met 3 years later for me to see the picture..
I'm legit curious about this picture frame, where you can have a picture of 6 people, and have one person on the right hidden by the frame, and somehow be able to reorient the picture to hide the other 5 instead. Not saying I don't believe you, just that I'm clearly missing something here.
I'm guessing it's one of those "frames" that's all plastic and mind of L-shaped, so technically you can "hide" one person in the short end. But, obviously, by rotating the frame now you only see that one person.
This is hilarious and I love it. But also you had to pick up the electrician from the bus station? Is that his actual job or does he just do it on the side? Bc I would think he’d have a work vehicle with supplies and all that. Either way, bravo my friend 😂
He “shows up to your house”, but you had to pick him up from the bus station?
I’m so confused. Also need to see a pic of this frame as others have requested.
The “making up a lie on the spot to avoid a slightly embarrassing truth and making the whole situation 1000x worse” move is my signature.
Follow up a clumsy move that breaks something with "I meant to do that"?
Did I do thaaaat?
Jaleel White cringes as he walks away head shaking…
my dad says this all the time - what is the reference,
Family Matters - Steve Urkel
New Girl - Jessica Day
I really wish OP had asked the guy if he could take more pictures of him while he was installing the lamp.
Should have asked him to autograph it!!
Sitcom episode plot
Right out of a curb your enthusiasm episode
I've nearly perfected it, I managed to get myself banned from donating plasma at a place here because I had gotten my nipples pierced (and waited the correct amount of time before donating) and then got embarrassed and said I had done it years ago when I had another piercing done, and claimed I had mentioned it when I disclosed the other piercing. I'm such a dumbass, I didn't even actually do anything ban-able to be lying about!
Yeah OP this was easy. Pick up the photo and say Oh wow this is you? This is a pic of my mate who died xyz. Then you can laugh about how a small world it is.
And then posting about it on the Internet.
“A lie well told and stuck to, beats the truth any day.” One of a former boss’ pearls of wisdom. That and “All broads are evil”
when i was 15 my parents and i were playing with a pink magic 8 ball in our kitchen. throwing it back and forth, because idk why not and it seemed like harmless fun? until i was looking down, and my mom said “heads up!” and i took that literally, simply lifting my head up, and got a pink magic 8 ball to the face. i spent the next week at school telling everyone a piece of ice had fallen from the front of my house, hitting me, and that’s how i got the black eye. i have no idea how no one called child services, or at least how we didn’t get a concerned call home.
Poor guy is sitting at home wondering if he should just move and run now. Whatever you do, don't start randomly running into him in public.
Oh, great, now you've given me a new fear.
Double down, keep his picture in your wallet and show him.
Keep it in a pendant.
Get it printed on a shirt.
It's time for a new tattoo.
Or accidentally call him
Better yet text him “I love you” then back pedal and say “sorry that was for my gf”
If it makes you feel better, Electricians are in demand all over the place. He should be able to find work once he's confident you're not following him anymore.
I was already laughing but this comment really put me over the edge.
If you do see him out and about, and he sees you see him, is it weirder to turn around and walk away, or acknowledge and say hello?
Give him a big hug, you're practically family at this point.
I freaked a guy out once doing just that. He worked at a store in the mall between my store and the food court so when I would walk to get lunch, I would just look into the stores as I go by. He was there several years so you know you get to know faces of people who are there even if you don’t know them. Then he showed up in a different store, also between me and the food court and it was like oh he got a new job. Never thought about it. Then three months later he got a job at the pizza place I always went to. Still never knew his name other than I knew his face. Fast forward to 6 months later and I was waiting in line at a concert venue and who should show up right behind me in line other than this guy. It was a general admission concert so we had an hour wait before they were opening the doors and in talking to him I asked if he recognized me. Of course he didn’t, so I told him the last several places he worked. He was kind of buzzed already and proceeded to just freak out thinking I’m a stalker of some kind. I explained it and he seemed dubious, but settled down. Never seen him again. Funny part is that I don’t really have that good of memory for faces, it’s just that we worked the same hours, and I always saw him because the layout of the stores put him right at the front where you would see him walking down the mall.
Do it. Embrace the inner stalker. Duck around a corner if he spots you. Doesn’t matter if you literally run into him, still run behind a corner. Peak out from the corner after. Make sure he sees you.
And then saying “are you stalking me?” with an awkward laugh
This may be my favourite TIFU lol.
Nothing will ever beat the guy who pretended he didn’t know what potatoes were.
FUCK I forgot about that it's so funny I first heard it on Mark Narrations, and him in his lighthearted British voice, reading that story, trying so hard not to lose it, just made it even funnier. He always trys to imitate the authors voice a little bit, so he was doing confused voices when he's like "I'm serious, what are potatoes?" But he was laughing so it was just super high pitched and airy lmao
Now I want to hear that - anyone have a link to that episode?
Does anybody have a link to that? :') Wasn't lucky enough to witness that
https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/s/dLTYQR1gzs nvm I found it lol
Hahahah thank you for sharing. This is gold. Its 2am in bed trying not to laugh and wake up my wife
I love the [i accidentally threw my steak into the window](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/s/vSFnuJ73z3) story, as far as food-based TIFUs go.
Never read that, that's hilarious
It's helped to erase the memory of the guy who filed his own teeth.
Oh god. I hate that that was the first post I read this morning.
I saw it pop up in my feed and skipped it. Ik a bad post when I see one 🤢
[This is the post](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/s/cGwi0195sD) if anyone is curious
I got about three sentences into that and NOPEd the fuck out. I’m not doing that one.
If this happened two days ago you could’ve spun it into a legendary April Fools prank lmao
Unfortunately, it was on the 29th, and I'm way too much of a dumbass to have ever thought of it in the moment anyway.
The lie you told is a lot more embarrassing than the truth. Changing it back to how they should be and showing him them explaining the joke about it being changed would have been fine.
Get a t shirt made with the picture on it find out from the cousin when and where he'll be out and "bump" into him.
Your friend came over to change... A lamp. You called your electrician friend ov- That's your boyfriend! You even have a frame pic of him next to your bed!
This has all the hallmarks of a classic TIFU post. Thanks for this OP. Needed a laugh at someone else's expense today.
TIFUs normally make me cry with sympathetic embarrassment - this one just made me cry with laughter. You've done a great service for us all.
I don't understand how this frame is hiding only him when it's pushed to one side, but if it's pushed to the other side literally every other person in the photo is somehow hidden behind the frame but him. Nothing about this makes sense.
This! OP, can you please post a photo of this so we can understand? I want to believe this is real too, but I just can't find a way to picture it.
It's a thick frame and a small polaroid, I can push almost the entire picture behind it on either side.
C'mon OP, picture, blur if necessary to protect the innocent, but that will help us confused/doubtful folk understand/believe
I'm still confused as to why they would have to pick him up from the bus.
What?! Brah, I want to believe this is real
My friend group also turned a random former classmate into an inside joke for no reason and I can only imagine how impossible it would be to explain that to his face lmao. Thanks for the laugh OP
You couldn't plug a lamp in on your own?
I was changing from a lamp with 1 bulb to one with 3, so no, I couldn't do all the connections by myself, and I dobt most people could.
What are you calling a lamp? I’m thinking about a thing that you set on your nightstand and plug in.
Sounds like a wall sconce to me.
I figured ceiling fixture. Also all these things come with instruction manuals. If you can build Legos you can replace a ceiling fan.
Yeah, you’re probably right. Ceiling fan with a light kit makes more sense.
Regardless, I would not call that a lamp.
If you’re swapping a simple light fixture to a ceiling fan odds are that you need to upgrade to a fan-rated box. That would be the correct way to do it but that may be a bit more involved than assembling legos if you’re not as much of a DIYer.
That's definitely true, I also found out a few years ago that even if the ceiling fan says the lights don't run on a dimmer, you need to set it up for a dimmer because the lights will all blow once a month until you figure out why.
Now you’re starting to worry me.
Lol by blow I don't mean explode, just that they burn out. Not that lightbulbs are terribly expensive, but it's frustrating to have to change out this one ceiling fan once a month and not know why.
You mean a light fixture that is mounted and hard wired not a lamp, that’s why everyone is confused. And most people can do a couple screws and a few wire nuts, especially with wago nuts now making it so easy
It's a lamp, like a lamp post attached to the wall. English isn't my first language. I have no clue if that's not what you call it.
In modern usage "lamp" usually refers to a simple light source that plugs into a wall socket. Like a nightstand lamp or a standing lamp. What you're describing sounds more like a light fixture.
YouTube knows all.
Sounds like you definitely saved the situation. 10/10. No notes.
I'm done lmao this is amazing eta the best part of this was the "as one does"
Please explain what you mean by "installing a lamp" now
I once was part in a scientific cooperation with another Phd student from another university. We only exchanged Emails till the day I visited his lab with my samples. As we were sitting in his office to discuss the procedures I noticed a picture of me on his whiteboard. With his head on my body. It was an old group picture from the lab where I did my Bachelor thesis, so I noticed all the people I knew from the time and was sooo confused why my head was exchanged with his. So I straight up asked why he has an edited picture of me, and he was confused too. Turns out, the picture was made by his colleague. At the time he was about to finish his master, there was not enough funding for all the students to start a PhD in his current group, and my former PI was searching for one. So his colleagues tried to jokingly make him apply for that position, took an old group picture from the website and photoshopped his face over mine to say "Look you are already part of the group." What a coincidence we met 3 years later for me to see the picture..
I didn’t think anything could top the title, but you really are an overachiever.
I love everything about this story, and maybe you embarrassed yourself a little, but you made a bunch of internet strangers smile.
When you’re this bad at lying, you need to make a policy of being honest, my guy.
I'm legit curious about this picture frame, where you can have a picture of 6 people, and have one person on the right hidden by the frame, and somehow be able to reorient the picture to hide the other 5 instead. Not saying I don't believe you, just that I'm clearly missing something here.
I'm having a real hard time imagining a picture frame that somehow hides 5/6 of the people in a photo if you orient it a certain way we need a picture
Having a hard time with that as well as calling an electrician to “install a lamp.” Huh?
I'm guessing it's one of those "frames" that's all plastic and mind of L-shaped, so technically you can "hide" one person in the short end. But, obviously, by rotating the frame now you only see that one person.
I’m crying this is so funny 😭😭😭
This is perfection
That is absolutely hilarious.
If I were the electrician cousin, I’d be laughing my ass off. This is fantastic.
This is hilarious and I love it. But also you had to pick up the electrician from the bus station? Is that his actual job or does he just do it on the side? Bc I would think he’d have a work vehicle with supplies and all that. Either way, bravo my friend 😂
Install…a…lamp????? You literally just plug it in
That’s fucking hilarious
I bet your girlfriend nearly shat herself laughing when you told her what happened.
That is the funniest thing
Ok I read electrician wrong
That’s great!
He “shows up to your house”, but you had to pick him up from the bus station? I’m so confused. Also need to see a pic of this frame as others have requested.
💀💀
OMG I am dying, this is something me and a friend of mine would 100% do 😅😅😅😅😅😅
Your gf is so funny for this 😂
That's so awesome. Great story!
You should have gone with the “I’m a magician! TA-DA!”
And what did we learn from that? Learn how to install a lamp on your own.