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TIFU By giving a girl a high-five.

Since this is RIF's last day here and so will be mine on Reddit here is an event that happened years ago.

My (now ex ) wife and I were at the Renaissance Festival for the weekend and stayed until they were closing. Now by nature I am an introvert, I like not socializing with people or really hanging out with anyone. That is until I had a full bottle of mead to myself. So we started working our way out of the festival and back to camp, I thought it would be fun to start skipping a long and giving anyone I could a high five. After a few minutes I lost track of my wife and went to look for her, I saw that she was near a couple of women that were sitting down on a bench. I attempted to skip over to her and saw she was bent over and talking to them. And super drunk me not taking half a second to read the situation I reached down with my palm out aggressively and yelled "High-five!", The girl I was gesturing to did not respond, and the woman next to her wasn't paying attention. I kept bobbing up and down and from what I recall only managed to say "No high-five?" Before my wife gave her a hug and we left. Only then did I notice the girl had her head buried into her hands, and my wife then telling me as we left that she just found out her sister died. Needless to say I don't skip anymore after that.

TL;DR - I tried to drunkenly high-five a girl who just found out her sister died.

Goodbye Reddit, it's been swell mostly lurking over the decade or so.

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