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Hopefully you learned your lesson from that whole thing.
TIFU by letting a human child into my world and causing mass panic in my city
(for context, aside from the kid we are all monsters in this story, and our job is scaring kids to provide energy for our city, which has been having an energy crisis)
My (28M) friend/colleague/roommate (28M) was planning on going out on a date with his girlfriend (27F) tonight for her birthday, and I had helped him get reservations for that. On our way out the door from work today though, our office clerk (63F) showed up and reminded my friend that he needed to make sure his paperwork was filed correctly. My friend started stressing out because he had forgotten to do his paperwork, and if he didn't get to the restaurant in time, then he'd lose his reservation. Things got worse because his girlfriend showed up to ask if he was ready to go. I ultimately just offered to go take care of his paperwork. When I go to get his paperwork to file it though, I noticed that there was a door that was just sitting at one of the stations. I figure someone must have been scaring, so I open the door to check before having it recalled. However, I soon realized that a human kid (2F) had left through the door portal and got into our factory, and she was not scared of me at all, but my whole community believes kids are toxic. I immediately freaked out, and tried to get the kid put back inside, but she got back out both times I tried. Finally, I managed to trap her in a bag and planned to bring it back to the door. Things didn't go according to plan though since I saw my work rival (28M) coming with a cart of scream cannisters, so had to hide from him, and he ended up just sending the door away after not seeing the kid inside. So I took the kid in the bag to the restaurant my friend was at to let him know the situation, but the kid escaped and started wandering around, which caused all of the patrons to freak out, and the authorities to be called on the place. My friend and I both booked it out of the area, back to our apartment. The kid however kept getting way to close to us so we kept trying to avoid her to not get contaminated, and eventually she started crying, which caused an energy surge which nearly got us caught, until she eventually started laughing so hard that it caused a blackout. So now my friend and I had to come up with a plan on what to do with the kid. Eventually I realized she was tired and tried setting up a place for her to sleep, but she just took my bed. I started to think that maybe she wasn't dangerous after all and told my friend this. He wasn't as convinced. I suggested we just send her back home and get everything back to normal, which I was able to convince my friend to reluctantly agree to, but I can't believe I got into this whole mess to begin with.
TLDR: I let a human child into my world and caused mass panic after trying to help my friend get his paperwork taken care of, and now have to figure out a way to get the kid back home so my friend and I can get our lives back to normal.
Your company should've used better security measures to keep kids from wandering into the workplace, but on the other hand, this little girl seems to like you. Still, this world is too dangerous for her and she needs to go home, so you gotta work on that with your coworker and apologize to the others for the trouble.
TISU (Today I Screwed Up) by taking a potion to try fitting in with my classmates.
I (~9F earth pony) am one of the few ponies in my class without a cutie mark, the symbol on your flanks that represents your special talent. I know our teacher taught us that we need to wait and discover our talents naturally in order to get one, but I really really REALLY want it right now! So one day, I went bowlin' with my friends (~9F unicorn and pegasus), who also don't have cutie marks, but we were disappointed that we didn't get any for that sport! I was the most upset about it because I was bullied for not having a cutie mark, so despite my friends tryin' to cheer me up, I still walked away in shame and disappointment!
As I was walkin' through a spooooooky forest, I tripped and chipped my tooth, but luckily, the resident Witch Doctor (25-30F zebra) took me to her hut and brewed me a potion to fix it! I was amazed by how she was able to cure me, so I asked her if she can brew me a cutie mark potion. She said no because there was no such thing as one, but I watched her use a magic flower called Heart's Desire in a potion to give a rooster back its crow. She then left to gather some amethysts as its next ingredient, but that flower might be the answer to my cutie markless problem...
The next day, after I made myself a cutie mark potion with that flower, I showed off my mark to my classmates, a hula— I mean a loopty hoop! I demonstrated by spinning a hoop around my hips, and I did all sorts of cool tricks with it! Suddenly, I got another cutie mark, spinning plates, so I immediately got some and balanced 'em on my nose and hooves while still spinnin' my hoop! I din't know what happened since my bullies (x2 ~9F earth ponies) called me a faker for gettin' more than one cutie mark, but I din't care 'cuz now I can finally fit in with 'em and everypony else with marks! Even my family was proud of me that night, but I couldn't sleep 'cuz I got another cutie mark in tap dancing but I couldn't stop it!
My sister (~20F earth pony) got soooo worried about me that she took me to her friend (~20F unicorn) the following day to ask her what was wrong with me. She said that I got the bad case of the Cutie Pox, which causes me to get too many cutie marks that make me uncontrollably perform the talents associated with them! My condition soon got worse when I started speakin' "fancy" (French for you humans), so they immediately took me back to the witch doctor so she can cure me!
As I continued gettin' more cutie marks and started exhaustin' myself from performin' all my talents, the witch doctor planted some magic seeds, which would only bloom if I told everyone the truth. I was super hesitant at first, but I finally confessed about the potion I made just to get a cutie mark and be accepted by my classmates! The flower then bloomed and I quickly ate it, and it cured me of my disease! I then said sorry to everyone for freakin' 'em out with it, and I promised to learn from my mistakes for the past few days. So I wrote a friendship letter to the princess (>1110F alicorn, looks 35-45) that I gotta be honest with the ponies I love, and also be more patient with gettin' what I want and avoid takin' shortcuts...
But whatever, me and my friends still wanna get our cutie marks now, so we went off to have potion-makin' lessons from the witch doctor!
TLDR: I wanted a cutie mark like my classmates, so I made a potion for that despite the witch doctor's warnings, but it gave me too many cutie marks that forced me to perform talents associated with 'em. The witch doctor cured me by makin' me eat a magic flower that bloomed only when I told the truth about why I made that potion while she was away.
PS: The unicorn's dragon assistant helped me type this 'cuz it's hard to do so with hooves.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on May 17th 2025 at 8:41:27 PM
"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."Guess when someone tells you there's no such thing as a certain potion, you should believe it!
TIFU by trying to do a motorcycle jump over fourteen garbage cans.
I (20M) have the reputation for being the neighbourhood cool guy, but I've been having a run of bad luck lately that made me worry that I'm becoming lame. I'm in a polyamory, but one of my girlfriends (21F) said she wasn't interested. Albeit it was apparently because she was busy and her grandma died, but before that, a man (80M) threatened to beat me up, and then I tried to do that trick I can do where I punch the jukebox to make it go, but it didn't work.
So, to try and prevent myself from turning dorky, I thought I'd better do something amazing. I saw that a man on TV had jumped 12 garbage cans with his motorbike, and being a biker myself, I decided to one-up him and jump 14 (because 13 Is Unlucky).
I started to get a bit nervous, and even preemptively wrote a will, but I did it anyway. However, I ended up injuring my leg.
TL;DR: I tried to be cool by doing a stunt, but injured my leg.
For every low there is a high.Hurting yourself does not make you cool.
TIFU by accidentally hurting a kid
Some backstory here, I (12F) and my best friend (14M) have been training to be Gem warriors because my best friend is half-Crystal Gem and our destiny is to help save the planet together. At school one day, my training instincts kicked in when I bumped into a kid by accident and beat him up. I feel SO guilty about this, I would never intentionally hurt anyone and it's now interfering with my training sessions!!
TL;DR: I ended up unintentionally hurting somebody when my instincts from training with my best friend kicked in.
"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"You should've had more self-control there, even as a trainee.
TIFU by putting my hand on my face while sunbathing.
I (20-21F) went out to the beach just to relax under the sun, but a few hours later, my big brother (23-24M) asked me who slapped me. I woke up and got confused, for I suspected he was just messing with me, but when looked at my reflection in the water, I saw that my face has a Tan Line of my hand! Turns out I accidentally put my hand on my face before I took a nap in the sun, and now my brother's gonna make fun of me for the rest of the day!
IDK if this is necessary but TLDR: I accidentally put my hand on my face and got a really embarrassing sunburn, which my brother bullied me for.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on May 18th 2025 at 4:10:14 PM
"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."That's rough. You probably should make sure you have sunscreen next time
TIFU by screaming at my social service agent in a moment of road rage
I (19F) have been the caregiver for my younger sister (6F) ever since the death of our parents. Our relationship has become strained as the result of me basically being the parent figure for her and also her sister. I also have to regularly check with social services to make sure that I'm fit to be a guardian. All of this has put a significant amount of stress and pressure on me. Recently, I was driving and nearly got in an accident, and without thinking I yelled at the other driver and called them a stupid head, not realizing who it was. Shortly after, the social service agent, who I hadn't met before and who is somewhat intimidating (48M), came by. I started to ask if he was the social service agent but he cut me off, introducing himself as the stupidhead. So now I definitely know I didn't make a great first impression as a responsible caregiver.
TLDR: I insulted the social service worker in charge of checking in on me and my sister without realizing who he was in a moment of road rage, and he heard me.
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Jun 6th 2025 at 6:34:18 AM
girl, you need to set a better example for your younger sister
TIMU (today i messed up) by allowing a runaway boy to sleep at my house without my crush knowing
i (10F) am in love with this cute boy from my class (10M) who’s like a prince (please don’t call him that), and we both have very conflicted feelings about this older boy (17M) who acts like a cat. one day, that cat boy went on the run from an evil corporation and crashed in my bedroom. i told him he could stay, but no one else could know about it. then the prince came over and confessed his love to me while the cat boy was hiding in my closet. when my parents found out, i was scolded for lying to them, and when the prince found out… boy, was the cat boy eager to taunt him about it. i was so mad i told the cat boy to run away and never come back… in the freezing cold, where he had nowhere to go. now i’m expected to save that idiot. gaaaah! i wish everyone would stop asking me to help them!
TLDR: i let a runaway boy crash at my house, without my parents or the boy i have a crush on knowing, and they weren’t happy when they found out. i kicked the runaway boy out. now i’m responsible for that idiot almost freezing to death
hit me up on MSN messenger! ;DDamn, that sounds like a tough situation all around, but it shouldn't be your responsibility to save someone else at 10, especially someone much older
TIFU by accidentally leaving my sister behind in another dimension
So one day I (decades old note F CPU [basically a goddess who protects and runs a nation], looks 13-14ish) and my younger sister (decades old F CPU, looks 14-15ish [I'm still the older one even if I may not always look it!]) were sent into the past to another dimension (long story) that was like an alternate universe version of our own world... shortly after this, we met another girl (???F, looks 13-14ish) who turned out to be the CPU of my nation in that world, let's call her P. Long story short, we spent some time in this new world, meeting the alternate versions of my other CPU friends and solving the issues of that world. Me and P got really well along (most of the time), especially thanks to our, let's just say, laid-back personalities. Of course, we'd still have to return home at some point, and would occasionally hear back from our own dimension thanks to our CPU advisors being able to communicate and receive info from the other place - this is where I should mention that a day in my home dimension is a year here, and each step of the preparation would take several days so we ended up spending a total of over 15 years in this new dimension even though it had only been that many days back home.
Eventually a temporary portal back to our own dimension was opened, and we had gotten pretty used to our life here at this point but it was finally time to go back (also to solve a problem in our own world). As we said our goodbyes to everyone and were about to leave, P would suddenly cling on to me and beg me not to leave, making us both trip into the portal... And after we had been teleported to my world and the portal closed I realized my sister had been left behind (though in my defense it wasn't fully my fault!) Anyway, after the big fight me and P decided to go home for a well-deserved rest, and while we've spent a few days mostly lazing around here I just got reminded my sister is still stuck in the other dimension and I need to work to get the power to fix the portals again... Whoops, sorry sis 😅 I'll get back to fixing the portals eventually!
EDIT: Just wanted to let you know that in the true timeline (game logic, don't worry about it), she's alright and there's actually been a permanent portal set up between our dimensions, so no worries about anyone getting stuck where the time is all weird!
My favorite failed console tbhYou gotta find a way back for her
TIFU by coming up with a hypothetical punishment for my enemies that the government liked
This actually happened when I was in college, but the ramifications are still ongoing. I (45M) was given an assignment, to devise a punishment for my nation's enemies so extreme they'd never forget how badly they had wronged us. Very drunk and depressed, I wrote a proposal for how to do this. My idea was to have 2 children, a boy and a girl, from each district of my society brought to an arena in the capital to fight to the death on live TV. Eventually, I sobered up but realized that my proposal was gone, and it turned out that my friend had taken it and proposed it to the professor (now 65F), who has a lot of influence on the government, while giving me credit. I did what I could to stop any further motion with the games, but the government loved the idea and so they went ahead and started implementing them, which has been happening for the last decade. I had hoped that they'd end, and did what I could to stop them, but this hasn't worked. Making matters worse, my friends son (18M), who is a student in my class at university, just proposed a way to drive engagement in the games from the viewers, and was asked to write a proposal for this. So now there's nothing I can do anymore to really stop this.
TLDR: Proposed implementing a bloodsport in my society while drunk, and the government loved the idea after my friend backstabbed me and turned it in without my permission, and now his son has ensured that the games keep going forever.
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Aug 20th 2025 at 12:52:19 PM
Whoa, that's the ultimate drunken mistake!
TIFU by making a wager involving my crush
I (ageless hologram, M, appear middle-aged) have been giving etiquette lessons to this woman (ex-Borg, 26F), and lately, I have been giving her advice about dating. However, because she's an ex-Borg, she's not exactly well-stocked in the manners department, even with my teachings.
As such, my employee (36M) told me that she couldn't go on even one successful date, and we ended up making a bet over it.
Then, I developed a crush on the ex-Borg woman, so I ended up trying to date her myself, but when I got to the party, the employee told me I'd won the bet, and she got really angry, believing that I never actually liked her and was only dating her to win the bet. I tried to explain that I really did feel for her, but she dumped me on the spot.
TL;DR: I made a bet involving whether my crush could date anyone, causing her to assume I was lying about liking her and dump me.
For every low there is a high.That’s rough… sorry about that. Speaking of drunken mistakes…
TIFU by drunk driving and accidentally killing my friend’s children
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I (39M) am the owner of a restaurant along with my friend and coworker who we’ll call J (41M).
I have a history of alcoholism, which has caused many problems for me, including putting a strain on my marriage to my now-former wife, who I will refer to as L. Around two months ago, she left me to move to a nearby town. This was very difficult for me, so I turned to the obvious. Later that same day, I was due to pick up J’s two youngest children, who we’ll call E and M (11M and 8F, respectively) from a school event.
I honestly have no idea why the hell I thought that driving while intoxicated was a good idea at the time, but it would come to haunt me as the worst mistake I would ever make, since I ended up crashing the car and both of them died.
J has been known to have anger issues, but he cares deeply for his family, so I was terrified of how he would react and had no idea what to do. I buried them in a nearby forest. The next day, I felt so terrible that I walked over to a nearby cliff and considered jumping off of it, but ultimately decided not to.
I decided to go to the police station and tell them about what I had done, but lied about E and M and claimed that I had been knocked out and woke up to find them missing after the crash.
On the 11th of the following month, J was last seen before going missing, just days before our restaurant was due to open. Within the span of several weeks, this was followed by the disappearances of S, the head engineer of our restaurant’s animatronics (35F), the computer supervisor C (30M) and J’s wife R (40F). Coincidentally, during this time, our animatronics began behaving oddly and several were out of service for some time. After R’s screams were reportedly heard one night, the police broke into the restaurant and shut it down permanently under suspicious circumstances.
TL;DR: I’ve ruined my and my friend’s dreams of opening our restaurant, and caused almost all of his family’s deaths. I can’t help but feel that all of this is my fault and there’s nothing I can do to fix it.
Edited by GrandCheese on Jul 2nd 2025 at 10:17:51 AM
kijetesantakulu tonsi li lanpan ala lanpan e soko? | ☿ they/them/theirsYou need to go to the authorities and turn yourself in, since drunk driving is a crime
Some important context for this story, my (45M) family are all superheroes. My society generally dislikes superheroes as a whole so we try to keep a low profile and avoid anyone finding out our real identities. The problem though, is that recently while trying to stop a supervillain, my daughter (14F) ran into her crush (14M), who somehow recognized her. Before this had happened, they had been planning to go see a movie together. When I found out about this, I had to contact my associate (48M), who is in charge of erasing memories of people who see us or figure out who we are. I just wanted the memory of him figuring out her identity erased for the safety of everyone involved. One other thing that I should note is that this past week I have been single parenting since my wife (45F) is away on a secret mission. So I have been having to figure out how to handle all of what happened all on my own, and so haven't fully known the best way to handle this situation was due to the stress of single parenting. On the night that was supposed to be my daughter's date with her crush, he never showed up, sending my daughter into a bit of a funk. I had a hard time with figuring out how to handle this due to not being used to being a stay at home parent. A few days later, my daughter started complaining that her crush pretended not to know her at school. I said something about how my associates memory wiping tech is not always precise, and both she and I realized what had happened: her crush had accidentally had all of his memories of her wiped. I was able to find out where he worked part time and so I decided to help them meet again by taking her and my other 2 kids (10M and 1M) to the restaurant he worked at. This ended up being a disaster though and ended up causing my daughter to feel humiliated and upsetting her. I talked to her later and apologized for my role in what happened and messing things up for her later, and told her I was just trying to be a good parent. She forgave me so fortunately we have been able to reconcile after this.
TLDR: I told my associate that my daughter's crush had found out that she was secretly a superhero, and ended up getting his memory of her completely erased, and then made things worse trying to set them up to "meet" again.
Edited by KingLegendtheStudTroper on Jul 14th 2025 at 9:29:08 AM
I get that you wanted to keep her superheroing a secret, but if the memory wipe wasn’t reliable, it’s too much of a risk.
TIFU by lying to my superintendent about my ruined roast.
I (49M) wanted to give my superintendent (59M), who arrived at my house despite my directions, an unforgettable luncheon, so I cooked him some delicious roast, but when I checked my oven... Oh ye gods, my roast was ruined! I knew I was pressed for time to make a new one, but I still wanted to make this luncheon a success, so I came up with a delightfully devilish idea — to purchase some fast food at the nearby restaurant and disguise it as my own cooking!
So I took off my apron and tried getting out the window, but the superintendent caught me, so I lied to him that I was just doing isometric exercise and offered him to join me. He side-eyed me and noticed the smoke coming out of my oven, so I lied again that it was just the steam coming out of the clams we'd be having. He was still suspicious of me, but he returned to the dining room, anyway, so I snuck out and bought some hamburgers from the fast food restaurant. I served them to him, but he said he thought we were having steamed clams, so I "corrected" myself, saying that those were steamed hams, short for hamburgers. He was doubtful of my claim, so I backed myself up with the lie that calling them "hams" was part of the regional dialect of Upstate New York. He said he was from Utica but never heard of the expression, so I lied again that it was an Albany expression. He shrugged and started eating, but he noticed that they looked "similar" to the ones at the fast food restaurant. I covered myself up again, claiming that it was an old family recipe, but he once more suspected something fishy because I called them "steamed hams" when they were obviously grilled.
I wasn't sure on how to keep on hiding my big mistake, so I hastily excused myself and went back to the kitchen to check my roast. I didn't care that the flames spread out of the oven, but I came back yawning and called off the luncheon, saying that we had a good time but I was pooped. The superintendent got up and prepared to go home, just when he saw what was happening in the kitchen. I immediately lied it was the aurora borealis, but despite his huge suspicions that there was one at this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of our country, localized entirely within my kitchen... he still asked to see it. I instantly said no and let him leave already, but my mother (~70F) complained about the whole house being set on fire. I "assured" her that it was just the northern lights, while the superindendent still complimented my luncheon by telling me that I may have had been an odd fellow, but I still "steamed a good ham". I cracked an awkward smile at him as I waved goodbye, unsure if he was lying back to me just to save my skin, then as he left, I gave him a thumbs-up before rushing back inside to save my mother.
TLDR: I ruined my roast for my luncheon for the superintendent but didn't want it to go to waste, so I bought some hamburgers from the nearby fast food restaurant and kept on lying and lying just to impress him. My house then went on fire because I didn't turn off my oven, but I still kept covering it up until my mother complained about the flames. But despite everything, the superintendent still enjoyed my luncheon, but I have this feeling that he wasn't sincere about it and he only pretended to like it just to protect my feelings.
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Jul 15th 2025 at 4:18:40 PM
"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."

Apologies for bumping this thread myself without contributing to it because I legit don't have a good response to the last "actual" post, but I should've gently reminded you not to do that back then.
"YOU ARE KAIND. MERSIFULL. AND, MOAST OF ALL... YOU DOAN'T KNOW HOW TO CLAIMB."