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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Mimichi08 on 2025-05-20 05:23:11+00:00.

Hiiii. Well, it wasn’t today, but I still messed up and it is pretty funny I think.

For simplification sake, Epipen = EP

So I was in Rome on a trip with some of my friends. We were four sleeping in the same room and it was early in the morning. One of the four was already off to get breakfast so it was just me and two other friends at this point in time. One was in the bathroom for like 10 minutes and this story happened in those 10 minutes and that friend saw NOTHING.

So I am allergic to peanuts, and those who have allergies know that having an EP in any foreign country is very important, but you would also know that most people with EPs are VERY careless with the EPs. So the day before, my friend asked me to put their crackers in my purse since they didn’t have space for them and I agreed. Forward to the day of the story, I forget they are there. I open my purse to find the crackers and crumbs everywhere in my purse. So I proceed to empty it of everything, or I think. Thing is, my purse has like more discreet compartments where I had put my EPS, so I didn’t really notice them being there. Being the smart and intelligent being that I am, I decide to shake my purse out the window to get rid of the crumbs. Oops, what’s that? Oh no is that my EPs falling? But of course! However they did not fall all the way down. The hotel we were at had like small ledges on the outside walls. so the EPs were like lying on the ledge between my window and the one below. The window had an iron railing covering the bottom half, so I couldn’t get to them.

Once again, I am a very smart and competent being, so I of course decide to climb out the window. Luckily, the only friend that was in the same room as me came up to me like: Ummmmm what? So I explained it to her. She told me to grab a blanket and go in the street. So I did! I get to the street, right beneath where my window is. My friend’s phone is attached to a rope so she can carry it around her neck and stuff. She lowers her phone THROUGH the railing with the rope and proceeds to push the EPs off the ledge with the phone, as I hold the blanket like I’m a firefighter. I thought the EPs would land gracefully into the blanket, but I learned about gravity that day and got hit straight in the face through the blanket. One of the EPs even bounced off and fell to the concrete floor with a snap.

I return to my room, with both my EPs and my friend who was in the bathroom comes out and I tell them everything. They are still laughing to this day, and honestly I get it. Mind you, we were halfway through the trip and I still had like a week and a half to go, not knowing if my EPs would work or not. I was told after the trip that I could’ve just went to a pharmacy and got new ones, but the thought didn’t occur to me at the time.

TL;DR: I dropped my Epipens off a three story building, tried to climb out of a window to get them, decided against it and went firefighter mode, which failed. Also too stupid to problem solve.

Thank you. *bows*