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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Person8346 on 2025-05-10 00:37:09+00:00.

I just wanna preface that I am infamously faceblind. Just today I saw a women I was convinced was my own sister (it was not).

Anyways I just started a new bartending job in my local town, very kushty. A new waitress started today who I thought was pretty cute. Long blonde hair, seemed very mellow and pleasant. I showed her the ropes, made light small talk, very pleasant overall.

On my break I get to talking to her a bit more and I ask what she’s doing for education. She tells me she’s in her first year of college, like myself. So I ask ‘did you go to (local high school I went to)?’ and she responds ‘yes we were in the same year, we were in miss cotters maths class together remember?’

Finally it clicks that I’ve seen this girl around for the last 6 years or so. Back then she had short dark hair with long bangs and we never spoke to eachother, so I wasn’t too hard on myself for not recognising her. I apologized and we went back to work.

Later she offered to help me in my bar with just the two of us, had nice conversations and what not. I and all the other bartenders were chatting together as she left and the only said goodbye to me (which I thought was cute).

After she left, I wanted to find a photo of her from back then to compare to now, just for my own amusement. So I look up her insta…

My face when I realised I had slid into her DMs six goddamn months ago and we had chatted a little, and I never recognised her either fucking time.

I didn’t just fail to put two and two together, I failed to put THREE AND THREE together. Currently cooking up a casual apology for tomorrows shift.

TL;DR: I didn’t recognise new coworker as a girl I went to school with for 6 years, and then didn’t realise it was the same girl I texted with a little 6 months ago.