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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Crafty_Worker_5508 on 2025-06-02 17:11:40+00:00.

Not today, but a few months ago. I was trying to impress this girl I’d been seeing. She’s super into photography and kept going on about catching the “golden hour.” I nodded along like I knew what she meant.

In my dumbass brain, I assumed “golden hour” was some kind of metaphor, like a time where things get romantic or something magical happens. So I planned this whole date night: dinner at 7:30, candles, wine, jazz, you name it. She shows up and goes, “Wait… aren’t we going out to shoot sunset pics?”

Turns out, golden hour is literally just the hour before sunset. Not a vibe, not a metaphor. Just physics.

She laughed when I explained and we still had a nice evening, but she did tell her whole photography group and now they all call me “Mr. Metaphor.”

TL;DR: Thought “golden hour” was a romantic metaphor. Turns out it’s just a lighting term. Planned a candlelit dinner instead of a sunset photo shoot.