Skip to main content

TIFU by trying to show off my new gun to my brother.

This happened in 2006. I had just bought a Benelli M4, which is a semi automatic 12 gauge shotgun. It's an expensive shotgun and considered high end by many people. My brother is really into firearms so I figured he would like so see it. I called my brother to come over and check it out.

I took the gun to the living room. I made sure it was unloaded, cleaned, and oiled while watching tv and waiting for him go arrive. After about 20 minutes I heard knocking on the front door. I excitedly grabbed the gun and went to answer the door. I opened the door expecting to see my brother and show him my new gun. When I opened the door my brother wasn't there, it was a woman who I've never seen before.

She just stared at me and didn't say anything for a few seconds. I asked, "Can I help you?" And she responded with, "I'm just going to go." She turned and started to power walk away. I stood there thinking that was weird that she knocked and just left without saying anything. It dawned on me that I answered the door holding a big gun. (It was pointed at the ground the whole time)I sort of panicked and put the gun down on the chair next to the door and went outside to tell her that the gun was meant for my brother and not her. She started to run when I got midway down the porch. I started to say I'm not going to hurt you but she was already running down the road and I figured maybe I should just go back inside. I never found out who she was or what she wanted.

TL;DR Bought a new gun and wanted to show it to my brother. Answered the door while holding the gun thinking it was my brother and scared a random lady who knocked on my door.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

TIFU by forgetting my purse and attempting to get fuel

Not the craziest story but hey. I'm obligated to say this was a few months ago but I cringe every time I go past the petrol station . My petrol was getting low, not dangerously so but it said 27 miles left, (oftentimes it then suddenly drops to about 16 for example, and then 5 and then 0 very fast) I didnt have my purse on me as I just didn't need it... Picked my daughter up from school and then went on to collect my 2 stepdaughters from across town and then set off for home. En route the gauge went to 7 and then suddenly it was 1 so I stopped at the petrol station near our house. The petrol was on 0 as i pulled up to the pump and that's when I realised I had no money. I left the kids in the car at the pump and went in to talk to the cashier, it wasn't mega busy but there was a queue, I'd heard that they can help you if you can't pay for fuel. Like keeping something of yours as security. It was an elderly man and he basically refused to help. At this point i...
Post a Comment
Read more

TIFU - Don’t do what I did

On Sunday morning Aug. 24th, I awoke to discover a large blind spot in my right eye, which turned out to be what is called wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It has resulted in a very significant, permanent loss of vision in that eye. Although I maintain good peripheral vision, whatever I focus on at best is very blurry, and mostly disappears. I can barely make out the large E at the top of the eye chart. If this happens to my left eye I’ll be unable to read or drive. It turns out that I missed the opportunity that I had to prevent this from becoming a serious problem because I failed to report what appeared to be minor changes in my vision. In the weeks prior to August I had noticed that what I knew to be straight lines appeared to my right eye to have a little waviness. I also noticed that the color of my front lawn, which I could see through the window from my recliner,  was subdued, looked almost gray, in my right eye. So I scheduled an eye exam, which revealed the p...
Post a Comment
Read more

TIFU by getting suspended for 2 days by my front office in school.

I (13M) am an African American student at Jeannette junior high who had got suspended for 2 days here. I was in math class minding my business until my teacher had told me to go to the main office, which posed no problem to me. As i went down there, the people of the front office had stopped me and made me get a new ID (yes, we have id's.) so i had asked them if i could maybe do a different alternative and call my mother to let her bring the Id here, even then, the Id isn't that important. So, although i was talking to them in a calm manner and not showing any signs of rebellion, they had threatened to call the police on me without thinking twice before calling my parents. This is where i started getting angry, and even then now the black peers agree that could have been a racially motivated action. They then told me to sit in the office conference room because of that, leading into more anger. They had then called my mother who had came over to the school didn't even let ...
Post a Comment
Read more