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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Kitchen_Jellyfish492 on 2025-06-14 16:57:25+00:00.

(English isn’t my first language so I apologize for any possible mistakes.)

This all started yesterday evening when my brother (21) took our car to meet some friends. Next morning I woke up and as I walked downstair, I saw a random man (probably 18-19) laying on his stomach on our couch. Since I couldn’t see his face and he had similar clothes I thought he was my brother. However based off of his hairstyle and -color I realized it wasn’t him. The next logical step was to assume he was just my brothers friend he brought with him and so I didn’t think much of it. I talked to our parents about it and they both agreed, thinking it was odd.

Well since I thought it’d be awkward I didn’t really wanna be there when he woke up so I decided to join my dad as he went to te store. We talked about the guy and how it was weird my brother brought him over to our place instead of taking him straight to his home. Anyways once we came back he was still asleep and I went back upstairs.

At some point I heard him waking up. My mom spoke to him, still assuming he was my brothers friend, asking his name etc. He said his name was Anthony (fake name) and with that my mom decided to go and wake my brother up. She told him that Anthony was downstairs and that he should get up and make him some coffee since he didn’t seem to feel too good.

Well at that point my brother got that much more confused when he told he didn’t know anyone named Anthony. With that he goes downstairs and sure enough the guy on our couch was a complete stranger. I was still upstairs so I wasn’t there to witness the situation but basically my brother told him that “he probably had the wrong house” and he should leave. The guy was still somewhat drunk and he quickly left our place.

For some background we live in Northern Europe in a really stereotypical suburban area and so, we sometimes forget to lock our doors (and why we took the situation this casually and lightly). With that the guy most likely thought in his drunken state that it was his home and so stumbled in and went to sleep. Later on I also heard he left without his shoes and as I went out to take the trash I saw a shoe around 10m away from our front door, with the other one another 5m back from the first one. The shoes were facing our front door so this guy had taken them off one by one on our yard before walking in. Next morning he also somehow managed to walk past them, not picking them up and wandering off only with his socks. I mostly feel bad for him and hope he somehow finds his way back home.

TL;DR: today we fucked up by assuming the best and letting a complete stranger sleep on our couch.