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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Alikona_05 on 2025-06-30 06:37:50+00:00.
I fucked up today (technically yesterday now but within the last 24hrs) and it had a cascading effect.
I’m going back to school to complete my degree. I work full time and try to take at least 8 credits a semester. This summer there was a class I needed available, it’s online so perfect.
The class schedule is honestly pretty easy… watch a daily lecture, homework/reading/quiz that’s due every Sunday. Every 2 weeks we have an exam that’s open from Friday - Sunday at midnight.
Trouble is I’m a terrible procrastinator. Adding to this fact is that I had an operation earlier this month that I’m still recovering from it. I didn’t feel ready for the exam this morning so I spent more time studying… then I went to a dog rescue event and while we were there a freak storm hit my town and knocked out power for almost everyone. The city utilities didn’t expect to have our power back on until 11:30 so I was freaking out.
I had the brilliant idea of going to Walmart in the area of town that still had power, I was fully prepared to take this exam in the Subway.
Traffic was bad because of all of the traffic lights being unpowered. I didn’t even make it a mile from my house and I get rear ended. I honestly don’t think she braked at all she hit me so hard… which propelled me into a big truck that was stopped in front of me.
Truck has a tiny ding in his bumper, my car has damage do the front and rear… the girl who hit me had ALL her airbags go off.
The truck guy was chill, the girl was hysterical. Turns out she’s a stripper, kids were home all alone (she tried to leave but her car wouldn’t start), is uninsured and the car wasn’t registered. It didn’t even have plates on it. FML.
In an even bigger panic I emailed my professor my outlandish story hoping he’d give me some leniency…. This is now the 2nd time I’ve emailed him about possibly missing an exam (our 1st exam was the day after my surgery and I spent 9hrs in the ER).
At about 9:30 the power came back on. Now I simultaneously feel like an ass for basically guilt tripping my professor when I ended up not even needing to and having to pay to get my car fixed (and probably a premium increase)…, all because I procrastinated taking my exam…
TL;DR I have alot going on in my life right now. Procrastinated taking an exam, freak storm knocked our power, tried to drive to a public place with free WiFi to take it but got rear ended and sandwiched between 2 cars by a stripper that isn’t insured and driving an unregistered/licensed car. Bunch of damage to my car. All for nothing because the power came back on at 9:30.