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TIFU by causing a manhunt

Obligatory “not today”. So a few months ago, I got my first ever flat tire through my own stupidity. I was having trouble with the lug nuts, so I texted my roommate who’s a car guy to see if he was available to help with some brute force. He wasn’t, but he said to text if I still needed help when he was off work in about an hour.

Now, the important part is I was on the way to a Passover Seder when this happened. I eventually got a better angle and managed to put the spare on with no small effort, by committee of me, my friend/passenger, their dad/Seder host, and a random passing college student. Off we went to the Seder, and into my pocket (and onto do not disturb) went my phone, since it was a mixed Jewish group and I knew there’d be mixed opinions about phone use on a holiday.

Hours later, having not once checked my phone during the very long dinner as I was trying to be in the moment and not rude, I see a discord server for a local volunteering group my roommate and I are in is blowing up my phone. Turns out my roommate who doesn’t even use discord had, after failing to contact me, alerted a mutual friend. Other mutual friends had spiraled, only knowing I was somewhere near downtown, and actually driven around looking for me. I was both touched (people care about me!) and annoyed- do these people think so little of me that I would’ve vanished in broad daylight from a college campus or been stranded in a town with buses and Ubers? But I learned my lesson about telling people when a crisis is resolved.

TLDR told roommate about problem, fixed it, went MIA for dinner without telling him, prompted friendly manhunt.

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