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TIFU by accidentally showing hentai to a train conductor

It is probably one of the worst interactions I have had with another human being in my life.
For context, I was coming home from work on the train and texting with friends on the phone. I'm in the process of buying things for the flat I'll be renting with my girlfriend and one other person, so the main topic of conversation was gathering ideas for things we need. Baskets for clothes, cleaning products, a clothes dryer and other such things were quickly agreed upon so we moved on to figuring out what decorations we would like to have in the flat. The conversation was going along normally until we remembered that the bathroom was missing a curtain for the bath. We each browsed the listings for such curtains on the internet and sent pictures to the group, where we further discussed whether the curtain would suit the three of us. One of the suggestions that was sent by one of the friends was a curtain depicting a naked anime girl with her legs open. We all laughed at this and moved on to watch, but at the same time the conductor was walking around the train carriage checking that everyone had a ticket. So I closed the chat and fired up the app with the QR code of my ticket. However, I didn't notice that my phone, which is a few years old, decided to jam and fire up the chat again and my bad luck was that it fired up on the one bawdy photo out of all the curtain photos, of which there were more than 30. However, I didn't pay attention to this and immediately showed my phone to the conductor. The guy stood in silence for a good 30 seconds looking at the screen (which I couldn't see from my perspective) then just said quite quietly "Sir, I don't think this is your ticket". I looked at the screen in surprise and was overwhelmed with embarrassment, shame and felt like jumping off that train. The phone was unresponsive to attempts to hide the chat bubble and this photo for the next few seconds which lasted an eternity for me, through which the man looked at me with sadness in his gaze in silence. When I finally managed to show him the ticket he didn't even ask me for my student ID, he just walked away. He too probably had had enough.
Remember, always check what your screen before you show it to anyone...

TL;DR: Wanted to show the ticket, but accidentally showed hentai

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