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TIFU by helping a coworker come out to her dad

Obligatory: not today but a few years ago.

Me and coworkers would prank each other, constantly, at our old job (it was retail, lots of goofing off and no one took anything there very seriously). One of my coworkers left her iPhone unlocked on the charger in the office, so I adjusted the text shortcuts to say "Lately, I've been having sexual fantasies about other women" whenever she typed "lmao".

We had a good laugh about it at first, she accidentally sent that to a friend and then realized that I was the only person that would think to do something like this. She wasn't very knowledgeable on iOS and didn't know how to undo the shortcut, she asked me and I said that "I'm no therapist, but I don't think there's anything wrong with how you feel."

The next day, she texted me saying she accidentally came out of the closet to her dad. I sent back that I'd help her fix it and she could just explain to him that it was the result of her friend messing with her phone. There was one big problem which I was unaware of until that point, which she then informed me of: she was gay and had not come out to her dad. I had no idea, we had never discussed relationships or preferences. Needless to say, I was mortified. She eventually forgave me and things are fine with her dad - but I felt like a dick for a while after that one.

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TL;DR set text shortcut to "lately I've been having sexual fantasies about other women" when a friend typed "lmao" on her phone. She was gay (I didn't know) and unintentionally told her father.

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