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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/yacht_boy on 2026-06-01 02:07:45+00:00.

My good friend's mom died recently. My wife sent me a screengrab of the info and we agreed that I should go to the service to be there for him. I put it in the calendar about 10 days ago, and we both just went about our lives planning on me being gone from the house all day today.

So this morning I got myself out of bed at an unnaturally early hour for a Sunday, took a shower, grabbed a suit, drove 90% of the way, changed my clothes in a NY State rest area handicapped stall, and showed up at the designated time and place to find a bunch of locked doors. Went back to my text message thread with my wife to make sure I had the right address and noticed that it said "Saturday, May 30" and did a massive facepalm.

Called my friend but since he wasn't expecting me and he was with his family grieving his mom, he didn't pick up. Left a sheepish voice mail and sent him a text, hung around this random upstate NY town for an hour google stalking his dad and trying to figure out where he might live so I could swing by just to give him a hug, gave up and drove back to Boston.

I missed a weekend day with my wife and kids, spent $120 on gas and tolls, and my friend didn't even get to feel the love. But at least I got to eat a terrible overpriced chicken sandwich at McDonald's at a highway rest stop for lunch!

tl;dr I fucked up a calendar entry and drove over 400 miles for nothing