TIFU by scaring my coworker into thinking i was seriously ill. tifu

So i woke up this morning with an awful headache and realized i was sick. i hadn't been feeling so hot yesterday either and since I've got a giant work conference coming up next week I figured I'd better hit the doctor for real instead of powering through it. so I groggily texted my coworker, H to tell him i would be late that morning. I then received a text from him and i shall relay the dialogue as follows:(being sick and half asleep there were a lot of typos to begin with, I'll explain after the conversation.)

me: Hey i have a drindr appointment at 9 so i should be 8lin around 10-10:30

H: Could you bring a pair of googles.

H: *goggles

me: I think S put my pair of lab goggles in the door of the fridge where i issuance put 5th leaf samples. check there real quick.

H:There is a pair. why are they there?

me: Cuz S put them there and i was too lazy to move them.

me: Also i got your text asking me to bring safety goggles just now instead of yesterday.

H: Really! were you on mars yesterday?

me: I guess but thats why i sent you a text about safety goggles just now.

H: I can't connect the dots? are you okay? you are not hallucinating right?

me: no, lol I'll explain when i get in. i think i have a sinus infection though.

H: not good. drive carefully.

-there were a few more text messages that I didn't respond to because i left my phone in the car when i got to the doctors and then didn't check it on my drive to work.

So to elaborate, when i woke up that morning i tried to text my coworker saying i would be late, but i was groggy and tired so there were a lot of typos. i then read a text that I should have received the previous day asking about lab goggles and thought it was from that morning, so thinking that my coworker needed them as protection against the vent above his desk and was asking me to pick up new ones i helpfully provided him with details about where my pair was and why they were in the refrigerator. H, had known i wasn't feeling well the day before and became alarmed when i seemingly texted him out of the blue about lab goggles being in the fridge then finding that they ACTUALLY WERE in the refrigerator, combined with my weird typos apparently became so concerned that he contacted our boss and the HR lady. so when i got into work around 10:30 they were all waiting for me and told me that if I hadn't shown up they were planning on calling me had been deciding whether or not to go to my apartment to make sure i was still alive.

TL;DR a sinus infection, some typos, and my safety goggles in the refrigerator taught me and my coworkers the true meaning of friendship. (And the fear of someone having a stroke.)

Submitted September 21, 2016 at 10:20PM by kinkyquark http://ift.tt/2cHHMjQ tifu