That's rough. Try to talk to your friends about your grief, since they seem to know already, and they can help overcome it. Hope that helps.
TISU by revealing my friend's dad's identity to someone (and making him really mad and depressed)
(TISU is "Today I Screwed Up")
So I (6F) was following my friend (7M) around, because I was really really bored and hanging out with him is much more fun. His dad, who I call Wally (25M) had to go get his house fixed, since it broke in the last book.
We went to a construction lady (dunno her age), and Wally told us to sit still and be quiet. But that got really boring, so my friend and I made a comic about Wally being really mad (as usual) and making his own planet and stuff! When we finsished the beginning part, we couldn't come up with what to do next, so we showed it to him. He got mad at us again, and I'm not sure if it was because we didn't finish or because I called him "Wally" in the story and not his actual name. But to be fair, my friend doesn't call him his actual name either! What's he getting mad at me for?
Anyway, he yelled his actual name to me (even though I already know it, gee whiz), and the construction lady overheard us. She realized that my friend's dad was a former villain (he didn't give her his full name, just his last name) and told him to leave. We all left, and Wally said that he'd always be the bad guy no matter what he did to change.
TL;DR: I accidentally revealed my friend's dad's name to someone who didn't like him, so now he can't find anyone to rebuild his house.
My plan is to trick you into thinking this is my signature when it’s not, then confuse you silly. Doubting my plan? Then it's working!Whoa, that's bad! I can only imagine how that must suck!
TIFU by accidentally making a homophobic bully think I'm gay.
Today, my (10M) crush (8F) told me she had a crush on another boy (10M), which stung, especially since that boy has always been a bully to me. She also said that she saw me as closer to a "big sister" than a boyfriend, whatever the heck that means (she thinks I'm like a girl!?) and then it all went south from there.
First I did a huge Spit Take and the bully made fun of me for that, then I agreed to deliver a love letter from her to him (in hopes she'd respect me for it) and accidentally said, "What's a big sister for?" without really thinking.
And then, when he received the letter, he thought I sent it, and so because he was homophobic, he beat me up and I had to go to hospital!
TL;DR: I gave a boy a letter from my crush, causing him to think I was gay and beat me up.
OOC: TIFU doesn't have rules about no violence or no relationships. Just "nothing too vulgar" and "must be your fault".
For every low there is a high.
I corrected it. Those were rules on the IRL AITA which has a forum game based on it which is where I got that idea, so I had it in my head they applied here too. I changed the rule though
Dang, that sucks. Your crush sounds like she was totally taking advantage of you low key
TIFU by saying the N Word on national television
I (38M) recently went on wheel of fortune and had an opportunity to make a lot of money from this. I had made it to one of the final rounds and the word was for "people who annoy you". The word was supposed to be "Naggers" but the one letter missing was the A. At first, I thought I knew what it was but didn't think I should say it. However, I ended up blurting out the N word due to thinking that I would make a ton of money from it. On the way back my wife (38F) expressed her disbelief about me saying the N word on national television. My kids (13F and 10M) were also disappointed in me even though I tried to clear up that I only said it to gain money. I hoped that it would blow over quickly but over the next few days it turned out that the moment had gone viral. Everywhere I went I started being called a racist, and being called the "N-word guy" everywhere I went. I have tried to make things right as much as I could but I am unable to live down this faux pas.
TL:DR I blurted out the N word on national television and have been consistently made fun of since then for it.
I agree, I'll add that to the rules. Death is fine, as long as it's from fiction
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Mar 8th 2025 at 2:23:19 AM
BTW that subreddit also has "no death" but I think we can allow it here since it's all fictional.
Then you shouldn't have said it in the first place because saying slurs is never funny.
I (6F) and my "dog" (???M alien, he's kinda immature but I can't say if he's a kid based on that) were out walking one day when he spotted one of his "cousins" aka another alien that we had to catch. He then zipped past me to find it, but he accidentally pushed me into a mud puddle. Just then, this cute boy (9-10M) walked up to me and asked me if I as okay and even offered to help me up, but I stammered and told him that I was okay and I Meant to Do That... because um... I was practicing for a hula dance about a mud monster. He got kinda weirded out by it and left, and I realized what a dummy thing I said to him was, so after my "dog" captured the alien, I moped around at home and wished that I could turn back time and correct that embarrassing mistake.
My "aunt" (???M alien, he's a crossdresser who looks around 24-26 in human years) warned me not to use time travel, but he accidentally let slip that my "uncle" (???M alien, looks 35-45 in human years) invented a time machine. So I went to him and asked him about it, and he showed me this super cool time-traveling surfboard! But he warned me that time travel never works as intended 'cuz changing one thing in the past will affect the future big time, but I wanted to do that 'cuz if I can fix my mistake and impress my crush, he'll like me back for sure!
So as soon as my "uncle" left the room, my "dog" busted out that surfboard for me and worked the controls, taking us a few hours back to 12PM, the exact moment when my dignity disappeared. However, that meant we had to recapture that alien, so my "dog" ran off to find him again, while this time, I made sure not to fall into the puddle. My crush then walked up to me and asked me what's up, and I confidently said that everything was alright. He then took me out for some shave ice, and I happily went with him! Forget what my "uncle" said, time traveling worked perfectly for me! Buuuuut when we got out of the restaurant, I saw that my "dog" already captured the alien, but my crush's dad's hotel was melted down by it! He then fired my sister (19F) for it 'cuz she didn't have the money to pay for the damages ($500,000), so I had to start over and make things right.
Me and my "dog" went back in time again and tried to recreate the sequence that led to his successful capture of the alien the first time around, while I tried to impress my crush and avoid falling into that puddle. But every time I tried to fix this dummy mistake, a big disaster always happened. First, my "dog" mistimed his jump and made a palm tree crash into a police car, getting us in jail. Then, when I put my hand against another palm tree while talking to my crush, I accidentally let a butterfly fly away, and that somehow made a cruise ship crash into the hotel! Next, our past selves accidentally pushed us into the mud puddle 'cuz my "dog" forgot to turn on the Paradox Inhibitor. After that, he accidentally catapulted the alien into the sea, which somehow caused a tidal wave that washed me and my crush away.
Maybe me and my "dog" just weren't going back far enough, so we tried traveling back 5 minutes further, but my "dog" accidentally set the dial to the far future, where the place became a barren wasteland and my rival (6F) became a dictator and turned the hotel into a prison camp! The future version of my "uncle" then spotted us right away, so we quickly went back to that critical moment to really try making things right... and we finally did! I was able to impress my crush while my "dog" was able to capture the alien!... But then I just had to tempt fate right there. As soon as we went home, satisfied with our timeline, that giant shark alien dummy (???M, looks 30-40) broke in and demanded the alien from us! It then melted our entire house and our surfboard, that big dummy kidnapped the alien and got away, and my sister still lost her job 'cuz that dummy destroyed that hotel looking for the alien!
I regretted trying to go back in time just to correct that stupid mistake I made in front of my crush... just when my future "uncle" arrived with a new time-traveling surfboard! He told me that he knew all along what I was trying to do because he saw all the bad things that happened in his timeline because of that, and I said sorry to him for it. He then told me that the only way to prevent the Bad Future from happening is by reliving that embarrassing moment exactly how it happened. I dreaded having to do it, but he told me that accepting my mistake is more important because I'm supposed to learn from it, not wallow in it in regret, because sometimes bad things happen for a good reason.
So we time traveled one last time and did exactly as my future "uncle" told me. I still felt really embarrassed about it, but my sister kept her new job while my "dog" was able to capture the alien. Sis comforted me over that humiliating moment and told me that I can always do better the next day, although she was shocked that I actually used time travel. And just when I thought things couldn't get any better, my crush arrived at my door and gave me a handmade hula mud monster doll! Turned out he actually was impressed by my hula mud monster act, and he even took me out to the movies! It was the best day I ever had after all, but yeah, I shouldn't be dwelling on that embarrassing moment anymore.
TLDR: I accidentally fell into a mud puddle in front of my crush, so I tried to undo that by time traveling, only to find out that trying to fix it always causes big disasters, so I just have to accept my mistake and move on.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Mar 9th 2025 at 1:58:20 AM
"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."Yeah, it always sucks when you do something embarrassing but it'll pass with time, don't worry.
TISU (Today I Screwed Up) by lying to my dad's past self
Okay, so I technically screwed up twice, but I'll try to speed through the first one.
I (13M) left the garage door unlocked last night. My dad (42M) invented two time machines - the only ones in existence - and he keeps them in there. This homeless guy (40-ish M) snuck in and stole one of them. I only learned this recently, but apparently he had this huge grudge against my dad, so he went back in time to ruin a science fair my dad won about 30 years ago. I took the second time machine and followed after him.
I pretended to be a time cop note as I warned my dad's younger self (12M) about the guy, but he didn't believe me, and the guy was able to destroy his science fair project. I went to comfort him, but he still didn't think I was from the future. He even called me crazy! So I threw him into my time machine and went back to the present to prove it. He was totally shocked, and I was just about ready to go back to the past, but then he said that he didn't need to fix his project anymore. He made a memory scanner so he could see his birth mother (he was an orphan at the time), but now he thought he could just use the time machine to meet her. Of course, I couldn't do that since it would destroy the time stream. We fought, and then we crashed the time machine.
Now, I'm no inventor, but I knew my dad's past self should be able to fix it. He said that if he fixed it, I had to take him to his mom. I agreed to the deal, but I wasn't going to do that. I figured that if he fixed the time machine, he'd get his self-confidence back, and then he'd be put back in the time he belongs. Voila, problem solved!
Except not really, because the truth came out later that day. My dad's young self got super mad at me, especially since we had become good friends. He ran off, and last time I saw him, he was taking off in the first time machine, with the guy who ruined his project. He didn't know that, and I tried to warn him, but it was too late.
TLDR: I time-traveled to the past and brought my twelve-year-old dad to the present. I told him that if he fixed a time machine, I'd take him to see his mom. I lied about that, since doing so would alter the timestream. He found out about the lie and now he's flying off with a villain.
My plan is to trick you into thinking this is my signature when it’s not, then confuse you silly. Doubting my plan? Then it's working!Sounds awful.
TIFU by giving the Empire how to learn Magicite
After a performance at the opera house to sneak into an airship to get into Vector, me, my love interest [18F], a train suplexing badass [21M] and a monster mimicing kid [10M] then headed for the Magitek Research Facility to rescue kidnapped Espers. After a long series of battles and stealing treasure from Gestahl's empire, we finally made it to the tubes holding the kidnapped Espers, and by freeing them, the Empire's top researcher Cid realized Espers have to die to fully transfer their magic. Now they have their sights set on the Sealed Gate to the east of the Imperial Capital. I fear for the lives of the Espers beyond the sealed gate, and that they might use the Statues to destroy the world.
TLDR: World might end due to mistakes made at Vector
Edited by DecafGrub47393 on Mar 17th 2025 at 4:40:25 AM
Here's looking at you, kid.![]()
That sucks
TIFU by promising an entire class that I'd pay for their college despite having no way to fulfill it
So the story starts about 10 years ago. I (46M) had visited an inner city school and thought that the kids were inspiring to me, and I was sure I would be a millionaire by the time that I was 40. So I promised them that I would pay for the college tuition of every kid that graduated from high school. Anyways, 10 years later, the kids are about to graduate, and I am just a mid level manager at a paper company, so I do not have the financial resources to pay for all of them to go to college. Some of my employees read the paper and realized it was me, and now they insist that I go to the school to face the kids, and tell them that I can't pay for them to go to college, and they forced me to take my secretary (26F) so she could make sure that I don't flake out from coming clean. Anyways, we got to the school, and it turned out that the kids had written a song for me about how I was going to make their dreams come true, making things even more uncomfortable. I eventually had to tell them that while I truly had wanted to help them when I made that promise, I simply was unable to fulfill it. The kids were outraged, so I offered to get laptop batteries for them so they could at least be able to do online college. Afterwards I left, with the only solace I felt the fact that my secretary pointed out that they are all still on track to graduate high school.
TLDR: I promised a bunch of kids I could pay for their college 10 years ago but now that they're about to graduate, I'm unable to fulfill that promise.
It seems that you didn't realize that you'd work in a low-paying job, so I don't blame you for keeping it a secret from the kids. Still, you should've been honest with them and your coworkers sooner.
TISU (Today I Screwed Up) by wishing that I was always right.
I (10M) suck in school so much that I always get bullied for it, so one day, I wished that everything I say would always be right. My fairy godmother (infinity years old F, looks 30-35) was hesitant to grant it 'cuz she said that everyone's wrong sometimes, but her goofy husband (infinity years old M, looks 30-35) granted it anyway in my favor. So the following day, when I came down for breakfast, my parents (40-42M and 40F) asked me to guess what we'd be having, hinting that it rhymed with "mold mereal", but I incorrectly guessed "waffles". But suddenly, my mom told me I was right and brought out some freshly baked waffles instead of the boxes of cold cereal she and dad bought for me! I realized I could warp reality by being right all the time, so I took advantage of it the whole day! I got the best bus seats by "correcting" those two snooty kids (10-11M) that I wasn't a dweeb while they are, and then I got back at that bully (12M) who made fun of my mistakes yesterday by "correctly" guessing that he was holding a scorpion behind his back (and it stung him)!
However, during History class, my fairy godmother warned me that my wish might change reality for the worse and told me to undo it, but I refused 'cuz this could be my ticket to acing my tests! Just then, my teacher (40M) gave me a pop quiz and asked me how many states there are in the USA, but when I incorrectly guessed 49, the principal (40-49F) announced on the intercom that North and South Dakota peacefully settled their differences and became one big Dakota! My teacher got suspicious of how I knew about this and accused me of getting help from FAIRY GODPARENTS, so I denied their existence in front of him, but that caused them to vanish because I was "right"!
Now, just between you and me, I must keep them a secret from everyone else 'cuz they'd be taken away from me if I do, so I had to tell it to someone who wouldn't listen to me so I could get them back. So when I got home after "correctly" declaring that class is over, I first tried confessing them to my wicked babysitter (16F) 'cuz I figured she would ignore me, but instead she set me up on camera just to humiliate me! Next, I went to my best friend's (10M) house 'cuz I thought he'd be too smart to believe my inferior intellect, but he set me up for an interview on how I knew about the Dakotas and that our class would end early that day! I desperately tried looking for someone who wouldn't listen or believe me, but for some reason, almost everyone wanted to know my secret!
Finally, I encountered the bully again, who gave me yet another "guess what's behind my back?" game, so I told him he was holding a wasp nest! The wasps then stung him in the eyes and ears, so I was able to tell him the truth without him seeing or hearing anything! My godparents came back, but the bully asked me who was back, so I "corrected" him that there was a pro wrestler (~40M) behind him, and he beat him up! My fairy godmother then told me to undo the wish, but the bully kept asking questions in confusion about hearing her voice, so I obeyed her and wished that I wasn't always right. The next day, I got the bully's guessing game wrong and got beaten up by him, but at least my secret is safe.
TLDR: I hated being wrong all the time, so I wished I was always right, but that came with the risk of telling the truth about my fairies and losing them forever, so I undid the wish and learned my lesson: it's okay to be wrong sometimes 'cuz there are some things you don't want to have proven right.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Mar 20th 2025 at 12:16:11 AM
"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."Whoa! Guess "Be Careful What You Wish For" is a cliche for a reason!
TIFU by accidentally choosing the form of the destroyer during the near-Apocalypse
Okay, so this demon (infinity years old and genderless, but taking a female form this time) was about to bring forth the Apocalypse and told me (38M) and my coworkers (40M, 39M, and 42M) to choose the form of the destroyer.
Naturally, we tried not to think of anything, but then out of the blue, I thought that this advertising mascot (ageless, M) that I've known since childhood was harmless and thus couldn't possibly be the destroyer... or so I thought!
Out of the blue, he appeared, but he was evil and the size of a skyscraper, and the other guys figured out I was the one who thought of him and called me out on it. Luckily, one of them got the idea that we should do something crazy with our technology, and we did it, and that blew the mascot up and saved the day.
TL;DR: I nearly caused the Apocalypse because of a stray thought.
For every low there is a high.Ooh, ouch. Good thing you guys were able to fix it though.
(Also, no matter what you thought of, it would still destroy everything, so it's not really your fault that happened.)
TISU by dumping my girlfriend to date my longtime crush
I (11M) have been in love with this girl (11F, I'm calling her J) ever since we were super little. She's always in denial about it, and she's constantly dating other guys, but I know she'll eventually come back to me: what's not to like? I'm awesome!
Recently, J broke up with her boyfriend, so I had the chance to finally date her. But there was one problem: I've been dating this other girl (12F, let's call her K) since the school year started. My two friends (both 11M) told me that it wasn't a good idea, but I didn't agree. K goes to a different school, and J and I are pretty much destined to be married, so I figured it wouldn't be too bad if I calmly broke up with K.
So I went to her house, but I chickened out at the last second. I ended up writing a note on the back of a detention slip. In the moment, I thought it was a great idea - K could digest the news in her own time instead of breaking down or anything - but then she came by the next day and yelled at me about how much of a jerk I was. So... she kinda hates me now.
After that, I tried to get with J, but she was already going steady with some other guy. So now K hates me, J hates me, my friends are all "I told you so", and I'm all alone.
TL;DR: I broke up with my girlfriend to date my other crush, but she started dating someone else before I got to her, so I basically dumped my girlfriend for nothing.
My plan is to trick you into thinking this is my signature when it’s not, then confuse you silly. Doubting my plan? Then it's working!I can't say I have much sympathy for you in this. I don't think ending a relationship just to be with someone else ever goes well.
I (28M) decided to sell my old car to trade it in for a new model: a six wheel drive. I was excited to show my friend (28M) this car but he did not share my enthusiasm. But he got in the car anyways and started to adjust his seat which annoyed me into telling him to stop. However, I started trying to work the car, but it kept acting up and I was unable to get it to do what I wanted it to. Eventually I got launched out of the car and my friend accidentally trapped me beneath the hood of the car, only pushing a button to open it when I called him and told him to. So I got back in the car, and my friend started trying to fix the mirror, but ended up breaking it off. I kicked him out of the car and started to drive, but promptly crashed the car. Now I sold my old car for nothing and don't even have a new one.
TLDR: I sold my car to buy a six wheel drive, but didn't know how to work it and ended up wrecking the car.
You should've checked the specs before changing cars.
LYISU (Last Year I Screwed Up) by telling an alien invader a few people I know.
So around a year ago, I (14M now) and my found family of three alien warriors with gemstones on them (thousands of years old F, they look like adults but one of them's short and immature) were suddenly attacked by some marble-shaped robots, so we went on a mission to destroy them. However, there were too many of them, they were invading various parts of Earth (we take the Warp Pads to fight them everywhere), and we didn't know what they were doing or why they were here. I suggested that we follow one robot to wherever its hideout is, and my team agreed to it, although one of them wanted to destroy it instead.
So we trailed that bot all the way down to a secret underground lair, and we did a stakeout and saw the bot establish communication with another gemstone alien (~3000F, looks like a short adult without her limb enhancers, and let's call her P). She was planning to reactivate this lair and resume the production of her (and my team's) alien race in the canyon where we found it, but my team worried that doing so would destroy our planet. So in an attempt to try stopping her plan diplomatically, I sneaked away from my team and said hi to her. I introduced myself to her, but in her confusion, she wondered if people with my name had replaced humans, so I told her there are plenty more humans out there such as "My Dad" (40M now), "[My Best Friend]" (12 3/4F now), "[Donut Guy]" (~19M now), "[Donut Girl]" (~18F now), "The Mailman" (~25M now), and "[The Weird Kid], I Think" (~5M now, but IDK if he's actually a human because well... he's kinda weird, to put it shortly). I then tried being casual with her and asked what she was up to, but she said that she was just "picking up where she left off" and threatened to crush me with her remote-controlled fists in that lair!
My team leaped in to save me and told P to back off because they're the guardians of this planet and it's their mission to protect it from bad guys like her. She backed down and threatened to report us to her boss, but my team destroyed her monitor, her remote-controlled fists, and the lair's power source! I then admitted that I may had gone too far in my peace talks with her, and G said that while we learned new things about P's evil plans, it was still a bad idea for me to lead my team there...
Because today, two other gemstone aliens (thousands of years old F, both look like adults but one is big and bulky while the other is short) were sent over by the same boss P was working for to abduct those very people I told her to keep them in her boss's zoo in space. My team wondered why only those specific people were abducted and not anyone else, so we went off to find them and investigate. We found the minions (let's call them A and T) holding some of my friends hostage at a merry-go-round, and we demanded them to release them. However, A promised to do that only if we turn in her dad to her, but I was confused because gemstone aliens burst out of the ground fully-formed instead of being birthed. She then clarified that she was looking for a "My Dad", a "[My Best Friend]", a "[Donut Guy]", a "[Donut Girl]", a "Mailman", and a "[The Weird Kid], I Think", as specified in P's report to her. I soon realized that I accidentally gave P last year a list of humans to abduct for their zoo, and she thought those were their names!
I blamed myself for this mess while my team tried to free my friends. Not wanting to surrender my dad to those invaders, I then decided to turn myself in, claiming that I was "My Dad". "A" begrudgingly believed me, only because she wanted her and T's mission to be over and done with, but my team got super-worried about me and asked if I knew what I was doing. T then captured me with my friends, and all I could do was give my team a weak thumbs-up before we were taken away on the merry-go-round, which turned out to be my kidnappers' ship all along.
Soon enough, I was able to free myself and my friends from T's grasp while my team outside helped evacuate them, but before we could escape, A froze them with her wand. She said that she and T couldn't leave this planet without their "human variations" in tow, especially me, "My Dad". I then admitted that that wasn't my name at all, to her frustration, but I gently told her that I wanted to end the mission already. "A" was still doubtful of me, but for my friends' and team's sake, I decided to turn myself in, seriously. I told her that I was more wanted on her homeworld than anyone else because I was apparently the reincarnation of my dead mother (~6000F, middle-aged looking when she died) — the leader of my team who rebelled against those invaders thousands of years ago and the one who shattered one of their leaders — and I showed A my mother's gemstone on my belly as proof.
"A" was shocked about what I told her and released my friends and team, but the latter still called out to me if I was really doing the right thing. I told them that turning myself in was the only way to save them, even though my mother wouldn't have wanted me to do this, but they protested and told me to go back with them. I was still firm on this risky decision, so I turned away from them and allowed A to take me to her and T's homeworld for my trial... but not without telling my friends and my team that I love them. Hopefully, this trial will go smoothly, but I shouldn't have told P about my friends that fateful day.
TLDR: I tried being diplomatic with an alien invader by being casual with her and telling her about my friends, but one year later, that came back to bite me because she thought those were the names of some people to abduct when I just described them to her instead. So her boss sent over two other invaders to kidnap them, and in my attempt to save them, I turned myself in to the invaders in hopes to correct this one little mistake that turned into disaster.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Apr 17th 2025 at 1:56:00 AM
"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."To be fair, this sounds like it is such a rare situation, I can understand not handling it the right way.
TIFU by causing a mutiny and mass execution by venting my frustrations
I (43M) am a part of a mercenary crew. Some time ago, there was this kid (now M34) who our crew's captain (54M) had taken in and who had later split off from us and formed his own crew. Recently, his crew had run afoul of some powerful people because one of the members of the crew (?M) had stolen from some powerful people and we were hired to capture them and turn them in. The captain however suggested we take a different offer though for much less money, and we don't capture and turn them in. He explained this for supposedly pragmatic reasons but I knew it really was because he didn't want to turn over the kid he had raised so long ago. This was despite him having screwed us over numerous times. So I got frustrated and decided to voice my frustrations for the captain protecting him all the time. There was another guy (58M) in the crew who agreed and decided it was time to change leadership, with him in charge. So they took the old captain, along with the guy who had stolen from the powerful people I previously mentioned and another crewmate prisoner. The guy who had taken control then decided to kill everyone who was still loyal to the old captain, while I couldn't do anything about it because they would just kill me too if I tried to stop them.
TL:DR, I tried to voice my frustrations with my captain, but inadvertently ended up causing a mutiny and getting half of my crew killed as a result.
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Apr 18th 2025 at 12:27:18 PM
In that type of situation I don't blame you for getting frustrated, honestly.
TIFU for keeping a wild animal in my room and lying to my parents about it
For some backstory here, I (12F) and my best friend who's an undead ghost (don't know his exact age, but he's centuries old) were hanging out in my room on a rainy night. A skunk managed to make his way into my bedroom. My step-mom doesn't allow wild animals in the house, but I knew I couldn't leave the little guy outside in the rain. I hid it in my closet , but of course my parents got a whiff of the awful smell. I told them it was the smell of a new aftershave. Then we were in the Neitherworld where my best friend is from, and in the Neitherworld lies manifest as skeletons living in your closet. And one of the skeletons happened to be MY lie. Now it won't go away until I tell my parents the truth!
TL,DR: I told a lie to my parents that manifested into something bigger that won't go away.
Edited by AdventurousYak9234 on Apr 18th 2025 at 7:47:02 PM
"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"Whoa! That's one way to learn a lesson about which animals are okay and not okay to keep as pets!
TIFU by giving my virtual assistant a makeover, causing it to lock some kids inside.
I (33M) am a tinkerer, and so I gave my virtual assistant a bit of a facelift, including giving it a security mode to protect our house. However, I accidentally triggered the security mode off while my father (67M) and I were gardening, which locked us outside, and my son (1M) and dog (2M), plus the kids we were babysitting (1M, 1F, 2M, and 2F) inside.
To make matters worse, the AI then thought the kids and dog were intruders or possums and started trying to scare them away and/or grab them with robot arms, so it was scary watching all that from outside the house! Luckily, the dog ended up chewing up the virtual assistant, breaking all the new additions.
TL;DR: I accidentally locked the kids in the house with an AI that thought they were intruders.
For every low there is a high.This is why you always install saftey switches on machinery.
LYIFU (last year I fucked up) By jumping into a river to save a friend
I (16F at the time, now 17F) was the second in command of the senshado (imagine paint-ball or airsoft but with tanks) team of a prestigious high-school, and during the 62nd annual national high-school level tournament of the sport I along with most of the rest of my team ended up on a riverbank, and due to a severe rainstorm at the time one of my friends ended up careening off said river bank into the river. Thinking only in the moment, I abandoned my post and jumped into the river after her in an attempt to rescue her, however as I was diving into the river the commander of the enemy team scored a direct hit on my now un-occupied vehicle, costing us the match. Since the match, had we won it would've meant a 10 year win-streak for the school and I threw it, my mother and who is the headmistress of the school has disowned and expelled me, and my sister has cut contact (however I suspect this just out of loyalty to our mother).
TL;DR Mother pissed at me for prioritizing saftey over honour
Edited by HacksAndSlash on Apr 18th 2025 at 4:09:53 AM
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it"That's too bad, but it sounds like you did do the right thing in that situation.
TIFU by trying to prove that I could make more money than my niece while on vacation
My (58M) nephew and niece (both 12) are staying with me over the summer. I run a museum and they have been helping out with it while living here. The problem is that one of my employees (15F) is a bit of a slacker, and the other (22M) is somewhat incompetent. Anyways, I have to get after them to work more often than not. The problem is that my niece thinks that I would make more money by being nice than just by yelling at my employees or whatnot. So I told her that I bet I could make more money than her on vacation. We agreed that I'd go on vacation for 3 days and if I won the bet, she had to wear a loser T-shirt all summer, and if she won, I had to sing an apology song. So I went out of town, and faked a heart attack to get onto cash wheel. I was able to win several rounds until I received the opportunity to either double my winnings or lose them all. Of course, I decided that I would take my winnings, pack my bags, and bet them all on the bonus word. The prompt ended up being a 6 letter word to ask for something politely. I immediately guessed it was gimmee, but this was not the case apparently. But I was offered a chance to try again, and was told it was a magic word starting with "P". So I guessed then it was pabra-kadabra. Turned out though the word was please (I guess that word can make you money). Anyways, my niece and nephew forced me to sing an apology song after that.
TLDR: I tried to prove a point to my niece, lost all of the money I had gotten, and then was forced to sing a humiliating apology song afterwards
Hopefully you learned your lesson, and about the word "please".
TISU a battle to protect an innocent creature.
The local professor (60M) asked my to get my friend after he got another badge, which I did. There, he talked about about three legendary creatures at the lake, and asked us and his assistant to go study them. However, as soon as he finished talking, what seemed like an earthquake occurred. We then learned that this weird group had blown up one of the lakes, and were looking for the creatures.
I went to the north lake, and met one of the people (20'sish?F) in charge of the group. Despite having a bigger team, she beat me easily, even beating my ace with her ace. My friend showed up, but it was too late, she got the creature, and even taunted me about my loss. I'm trying to get stronger for a rematch, but I can't help but feel like I made a terrible mistake.
TLDR, I lost a battle and got an innocent creature captured.
That earthquake was beyond your control, so it seems that you needed to investigate the area for check on everyone's safety. Still, that girl was too powerful for you to defeat, and your friend should've arrived sooner.
TIFU my dinner date for my crush.
I (??NB robot) asked my crush (20-22F penguin) on a dinner date, but warned her to wear goggles. She was confused but went along with it anyway, while I spent months setting up a spaghetti dinner for her, inspired by all the romcoms I've watched. Yes, IK robots like me don't need to eat, but I wanted to make this perfect for her, so I tried re-enacting my favorite romcom by staring deeply into her eyes and hand-feeding her, but I accidentally spilled the sauce on her face! That's why I told her to wear goggles, but things got so awkward in our date that I ran away "crying"! T_T
My crush then caught up with me and asked me if I was alright, and I apologized for the mess. Surprisingly, she was okay with it despite what happened because she wanted to enjoy my company no matter what the date was! She also admitted that she doesn't know what a good or bad date is, just like me, but she invited me to another one, anyway, just to bond with me, and told me to wear a new hat. She took me to a sunflower field, but all the flowers were dead because they were out of season! Now I don't feel so bad about my awkward date because that gave me an idea to plan our next one together, but still, my dating attempt was embarrassing.
TLDR: I tried setting up a date for my crush but accidentally ruined it, but despite that, she was fine with it and took me on another date, which also went awkward. However, we both realized that we're equally bad at planning dates, but at least we can improve on them by planning them together.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Apr 25th 2025 at 3:53:07 AM
"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."At least she's still with you, but I agree, that's awkward.
2DAISU (Two Days Ago, I Screwed Up) by stealing a toy
These toy robots have been all the rage lately, but I (8M) can't afford one and my mom (35F) refuses to buy me a toy that's that expensive until my birthday. And so when I saw one for sale at the local drugstore, I wanted it too much, so I stole it and put it in my best friend's (8M) bag.
I felt guilty immediately and worried that I'd be arrested, so I went over to my friend's house and fessed up to him. He got angry at me, but luckily it didn't last and we decided we should return it to the store.
However, when we tried, we discovered that the section where the toy robots were was empty, so we'd get caught if we left it there. Then, the clerk (seems to be in his thirties, M) caught us and ratted us out to our parents.
I was grounded and denied desserts for a whole month, and my friend's parents (34F and 35M) said they were disappointed in him.
TL;DR: I shoplifted a toy and got myself and my best friend in trouble.
Edited by Unicorndance on Apr 25th 2025 at 8:46:39 PM
For every low there is a high.I hope you learned a valuable lesson about stealing
TIMU by attacking my... people.
I (1509F; please don't make fun of me), was tasked by my superior (9147M) with assassinating the Overlord of a nearby place. Sneaking in like a Ninja (Nin, Nin!) I discovered the Overlord was already dead, and met his son (1313M) and one of his vassals (1470F). I decided to stay with them to discover if their people, who my people considered evil, were truly capable of Love. Together, we've been through a lot, and I could see his heart open up, even if he refused to admit it.
One day, we suddenly met visitors who crash-landed, a DEFENDER OF JUSTICE (35M), his sidekick (27F) and their All-Purpose Robot (22M(?)). After a little misunderstanding, the prince made them his "vassals", but that was just the start. Soon, the EDF invaded and captured the sidekick, forcing us to fight back. Soon, we met the General, but that was when I had the worst shock of my life. My own people showed up and attacked! I refuse to believe my superior is behind this, and we're going to my home to discover the truth. Still, but attacking my people, I have committed a great sin; I fear what punishment lies ahead.
TLDR, I attacked my people and I'm in big trouble.
Edited by Solaris2022 on Apr 24th 2025 at 4:25:19 AM
Oh That's Harsh! Hope The EDF Faces Justice!
TIFU By Causing A Chain Reaction Of Events After I Moved To Another Land Because My Faith Was Low.
I (>2000F) Was Originally Worshiped By Humans Long Ago For Being An Agriculture God, But Overtime Those Same Humans Managed To Get Around Harsh Enviorments And New Found Technology, Rendering Me, Another God (Unknown Age F) And My Shrine Keeper. (Unknown Age F) But The Problem With Moving There Was That There WAS Already A Shrine Protecting The Land, The "Hakurei Shrine" Ran By A Red Shrine Maiden, (~15-17F) So, I Settled On Top Of A Mountain Already Inhabited By Other Species, And Completely Gave An Eviction Notice To The Shrine Maiden To Give Us Her Temple. But She Refused, So, After Some Time, She Teamed Up With Her Friend (Who Is Not Important In This) To Take Me Down.
After Some Time, I Decided To Lay Low For The Hakurei Shrine And Form A Pact With The Residents Of The Mountain, And So, After That, I Decided To Venture Into Hell To Find A Sufficient Nuclear Power Force.
Ending Up At The Old Capital, I Managed To Stumble Upon A Prism Like Style Mansion, And Found A Hell Raven Located In There. Having The Soul Of Yagaratsu With Me, (Which I Won't Explain Into Detail How I Got It) I Fed It To The Raven, Entrusting Her With The Manipulation Of Nuclear Fusion. (In A Dream, However)
However...There Was Another Problem...Apparently, The Same Crow Was Still Dumb And Birdbrained, So She Misread My Nuclear Production Plan As To Destroy That Same Land, So She Created A BIG Geyser On The Top.
After That Incident However, I Forgot To Realize Something, A Pirate Like Ship (Which Was Sealed For Centuries Underground) Was Released Along With It's Inhabitants, And So, I Acquired My Shrine Keeper To Investigate The Problem With The Red Shrine Maiden And Her Friend.
Was This An Accidental Mistake, Or Was It On Purpose? "Enumeration is a last resort... But sometimes, it can work a miracle."

So for those of you who are not aware, TIFU (short for Today I Fucked Up) is a subreddit for people to share stories of big/embarrassing mistakes that they have made, and in this thread this will be that from the perspective of fictional characters. Here are the rules for the game.
1. Someone comments "TIFU by [situation]" and links the work referenced. They then explain the situation that lead to the mistake that they are describing. They finish with a TL;DR and succinctly explain the situation. While in the actual subreddit the rule is that it must be at least 750 words, that isn't necessary here, it just needs to be long enough to explain what happened.
2. The second player will write out a response to the post that was previously made (it can be whatever you want), and then will follow up this story with their own "TIFU" story.
3. While this is based on the reddit thread, the nothing too vulgar rule doesn't necessarily apply, but everything has to be from the work described. Additionally, while there is a no death rule on the main subreddit, that does not apply here since everything is from fictional works.
4. However, since this is TV Tropes, no Complaining About Shows You Don't Like in this game.
5. The character must be at fault for what happened, at least partially.
6. Follow sitewide rules (obviously)
I'll start:
TIFU by trying to have a private conversation with my dead girlfriends past self but ended up having it in front of all of my friends
My (39M) girlfriend (35F) died a few years ago and I've been depressed about this for a while now. Recently this caused a problem in that one of my friends got seriously injured all while I was drunk and depressed so was unable to help him, and so my other friends, my sister (28F), and I have been trying to get him emergency medical help. Anyways, my girlfriend somehow had came back from the past, and her sister had been in touch with her about helping us. Turns out, it was a past version of her though and she's basically a hired gun to a bunch of criminals now. I have tried to connect with and talk to her multiple times since she's came back into my life, but she has rebuffed my efforts every time. Eventually we had to do something that required all of us to wear these special suits with different buttons to push to communicate with different people. Anyways, I tried to connect to my girlfriend and open up to her about how I missed her and that if she opened herself up to it, we could be something again. She ended up shutting me down at this point. Only after this happened did my sister tell me that I had been having this private conversation on an open line so everyone could hear what I was saying. When I asked why they didn't say anything they all told me it was because they were all hoping that it would stop on it's own.
TL;DR- I tried to have a private conversation and connect with my dead girlfriend's past self but it turned out that all my friends could hear the whole thing.
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on May 16th 2025 at 1:48:28 AM