Skip to main content

TIFU breaking into an AirBNB and scaring the lodgers

This happened about 4 years ago, but it still haunts me.

Me and the GF went on a trip with our dogs- remote area, very few good lodging options for dogs.

We found one, checked in, all was well, it was a multi-apartment building. I went out for a smoke and left the key inside, and my gf followed me out a few minutes later- the door latched shut and it was locked. Luckily our dogs were out there with us.

We called the host- they were out of town, but luckily told us where THEIR key was, to get into THEIR apartment and get our spare key- did the thing, key didn't work. Then the host says "Hey, on the window by the door, there's a window AC unit- GO ahead and try to get in that way.

Unfortunately, I didn't realize the AC to the right of our door was the other apartment, Our AC was around the side on the left. So, it's 10:30PM, and I'm trying to get into the apartment via the window AC and I then realize it was the wrong apartment. I gave up, we decided to sleep in the car. About 20 minutes later, the lodgers next to us basically RUN to their car, get in and dip as fast as I've ever seen, around 11pm.

100% they thought I was just some asshole looking to ruin their night, and I was just trying to follow instructions.

The next morning, I found OUR A/C unit, took me 10 seconds to pop it out, get in, unlock the door and start packing for our departure.

So, If you were lodging in the UP like 4 years ago, my deepest apologies, it was a stressful night for us, but I can't imagine the horror of that from your perspective.

TL;DR: Tried to break into the nightly-rented apartment next to us around midnight, in the middle of the woods.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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

TIFU by putting my already skinny jeans in the dryer on high heat.

TL;DR: Was stupid and didn't realize I put my clothes on extra high heat in the dryer. Had to rock skintight skinny jeans all day with tighty whities (only clean pair I had since I procrastinate doing laundry like crazy). I guess the constant wedgies and squishing are punishment for my stupidity. Honestly don’t know who else to blame but myself for this. I’m a scatterbrained guy so I literally put the highest setting on a load with most of my clothes, and my skinny jeans that I was planning to wear today. You can probably already see where this is going, but somehow I didn’t. For context, these jeans were already pushing the limits of what could reasonably be called wearable. They fit, technically, but only in the sense that I could get them on with enough determination and a bit of strategic breathing. Sitting down in them was more of a commitment than a casual action. Still, they looked good, and I had convinced myself that discomfort was just part of the aesthetic. So this m...
Post a Comment
Read more