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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/throwaway_acc299 on 2025-05-30 18:25:13+00:00.

I was at school and there was this fat fly that would not leave me alone, just kept on flying around my head, disturbing my work. The teacher stepped out to get something from the printer and I just got sick of the fly. I picked up my laptop and started swinging at the it,I guess I was hoping to knock it out or sm or just to get it to go away. What I didn’t know was that my teacher had brought her 4-6 years old son in ,who was sat very VERY quietly at the back of the classroom, because she couldn’t find anyone to look after him. I was still swinging trying to hit the fly… and her kid came up behind me, I spun around and accidentally whacked the kid across the head… he fell to the floor and stared up at me, the fly landed on the boys head and just crawled around as he just stared. The teacher walked back in, saw me standing over her kid with a bruise starting to form on the side of his face, he just screamed. I got sent to the principals office but during lunch the teacher came to see me and understood it was an accident but still had to give me a detention.

TL;DR: a fly was annoying me so I tried to hit it with my laptop, teachers 4-6 year old son came up behind me and I accidentally whacked him on the head and got a detention…

Edit: yes I know throwing a laptop around is a dumb idea ☹️ my school is cheap and bought them for £50 they kept the price stickers on them 🙏 and there was nothing else I could use to attack the fly my hand wasn’t doing anything, it was either the laptop or a chair lmao