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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Full-Break1485 on 2025-10-08 17:16:33+00:00.
My girlfriend and I have been dating for a little over a year, and she’s been saying how much she loves surprises. I thought I’d do something cute a surprise dinner date at her apartment, with her favorite food and candles. The plan was simple: she’d get home from work, and I’d already be there waiting with everything set up. Romantic, right?
Well, the simple part didn’t exactly happen. I got the spare key from her she’d given it to me months ago for emergencies, picked up food, candles, and even a little Bluetooth speaker to play her favorite playlist. I set everything up perfectly candles lit, lights dimmed, dinner laid out, the works. Then I heard her at the door. I got all excited, dimmed the lights even more, and hid behind the counter thinking I’d pop out and say something cheesy like, Surprise, babe.
The door opens and she screams. Like, blood curdling screams. Drops her bag, grabs the first thing she can a frying pan and swings it at me before I even have a chance to move. I duck, nearly knock over the food, and start yelling, It’s me. It’s me.
She just freezes. There’s a full three seconds of silence where we’re both breathing like we ran a marathon. Then she bursts into tears and yells at me for scaring the life out of her. Apparently, she thought someone broke in because she saw shadows moving around from the candlelight through the window. My romantic surprise turned into a full-blown panic attack for her.
I felt absolutely horrible. I cleaned everything up, apologized about a hundred times, and we ended up eating cold pasta in awkward silence. She eventually laughed about it later, but she also told me to never surprise her like that again especially not in my own apartment with the lights off, you lunatic. Fair enough.
TL;DR: Tried to surprise my girlfriend with a romantic dinner at her place, hid to jump out and say surprise, scared her so badly she almost hit me with a frying pan.