This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Surtock on 2025-06-19 02:06:24+00:00.

Just happened a few hours ago. My colleague was telling me how he woke up this morning at 3am, and was unable to fall back asleep. I told him that this happened to me often enough, and that throwing on a random audiobook that I have no interest in can sometimes help. The random audio book simply due to the fact I’d it’s something I wasn’t to listen too, I’ll force myself to pay attention, thus robbing me of further sleep.

Our exchange, like always, is through either pen and paper or texting in a note file on our phones, because he’s deaf.

TL;DR Were good friends so we both just laughed it off. He, with a grin, mimed putting on headphones. I turned multiple shades of red from my mistake and embarrassment.

No one ever said I was clever.

For the auto-mods. I’m not much of a writer, so the above text didn’t meet the minimum character count. I need to continue babbling until that it’s reached. Its too bad there’s not a character count so I didn’t need to keep guessing…,…,…,…