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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/throwingawayayaywyaa on 2026-07-02 04:27:12+00:00.

This morning my mom woke me up and told me that my cousin saved up enough money to come fly over and visit us the first week of august.

i majorly fucked up the week before by forgetting to tell my parents the dates of me and my friends senior trip across the country.

also the first week of august.

the thing is i also saved up for that on my own and the tickets were already bought. so my morning started with an intense phone call between my mom and my uncle.

Things start to look up cuz i had a hair appointment and as i was driving there i got pulled over for not pulling into the right lane when a cop was in the turning lane with someone else.

im really stupid and didn’t merge in time and i thought since the cop was parked and nobody was in the turning lane as long as i slowed down enough it’d be fine.

Indeed it was not fine.

I gave him a cookie and it was my first time getting pulled over so i’m shitting my pants and he was a very intense guy and got upset like for a very valid reason.

One citation and two warnings later im at my hair appointment which was like the one good thing of the day.

Finally i decided to clean my bathroom with a new toilet cleaner my mom bought me earlier in the day. It’s like this stick thingy that connects to a plastic scrubber. The plastic scrubber thing fell off the stick and when i tried to get it, it got stuck up further into the toilet.

I told my dad and he told me to just reach in and grab it but at that point i had already tried the plunger.

Then i learned that plungers push things down and don’t pull them up.

Then i learned how expensive plumbers are.

And how loud my dad’s voice gets when he’s mad.

Today i felt very incompetent and like i am making everyone’s life very difficult right before i go to college and it’s kinda the worst feeling ever. I learned a lot of lessons today about responsibility. It sucks when all these things pile up on the same day but it’s part of growing up is having to take responsibility for this stuff. I just messed up a lot and it’s humiliating and i made some bad calls

that i shouldn’t have.

Right now it feels like im messing so much stuff up when im barely even an adult it’s like how am i gonna survive when im thirty if im fucking ip this much at eighteen. and i hate disappointing my parents and all this stuff is funny and laughable but i don’t think it is like it’s expensive and clumsy and so preventable.

Dang it.

TL;DR; i forgot to tell my cousin the dates i’d be out of town, and ruined her surprise trip. Then got pulled over for a bad call i made on the road, then got a cleaning sponge stuck in my toilet and have to use my college funds on hiring a plumber to fix it.