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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Traveller_Georath on 2024-11-06 02:09:04+00:00.

This happened back when I was in college in 2016. I was a part of a brand new campus group that was trying to get started focusing on outdoor activities like hiking, climbing, etc. (won’t get too specific for privacy). There weren’t too many of us to start, so we decided to try and recruit. One of the other guys suggested a girl I’d met before at a leadership retreat, and he asked her between meetings if she was interested, which she said she was. Note that she never actually attended a meeting.

A few months in, we decided to try and plan a trip, but our recruiting wasn’t going well so there weren’t too many of us. I remembered the girl’s interest from what the guy had told us before he stopped showing up, so I said I’d check and ask.

I messaged her both on Facebook and at her campus email, but never heard anything. With the sign up deadline coming up, I, in my infinite wisdom, messaged a mutual male friend (not the same guy from the group) if he had her phone number because I needed to ask her something.

Well, that was a big mistake because I never specified in my initial message it was for an official school function. I never considered how that request might be construed, but he took it as incredibly creepy that I’d ask him for her contact info and absolutely tore into me after refusing point blank. What I didn’t know is that they were also coworkers at a campus facility, so if he HAD given it to me he’d be risking his job or expulsion.

I apologized and said it for a campus group, and that I’d already tried emailing her about it. He said he’d tell her to check her email, but he’d appreciate me not contacting him again. A few days later, the girl emailed me back to say that due to my attempted invasion of her privacy, she was no longer interested in joining the group, them blocked me on social media. I later found out the guy did, too. The group ultimately folded the next semester due to lack of members.

I felt terrible that due to my social awkwardness I’d destroyed two friendships, but I moved on. The worst part came 2 years later after I’d graduated when I went to sell some of my old phones, and I went through them to make sure there wasn’t anything I still needed. Guess whose fucking number I found in one of them. I had it the whole time but never transferred it over to my new phone, so I forgot I had it. 🤦‍♂️

And before anyone says it, this story is 100% real, and is not AI. Yeah, sometimes reddit stories are still legit; sorry to burst your bubble. 😜

TL;DR: I asked a mutual friend for a girl’s number to contact her about a campus event, but they took the request as creepy and blocked me.