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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/ayllllll on 2024-09-10 20:22:53+00:00.
I'm literally sweating rn.
For more context: my mom absolutely hates me using my phone at night. She goes absolutely feral when I even mention something about watching a movie at night. And my dad (he works away and comes only on weekends) joins in with her if she complains to him enough. My sister and I sleep in one room and her a separate one. I'm 17F
So we all went to bed, and all lights were turned off. I usually don't sleep right away because I can't no matter how much I try, so I just take my phone and scroll till I get bored and fall asleep. And tonight just happened to be one of those nights where I get this sudden surge of motivation to better my life and change it for good, so I started browsing online to add things to my wishlist.
I usually send all the stuff I've planned to buy to myself on whatsapp, because I don't have my own card yet so I send them to myself and then filter them out and send them to my sister so she can order them.
So I was looking through some swimming bags to buy and I came across this really good one. So as per routine, I click the share button, click on the whatsapp icon, I see the You chat there and I can promise I literally pressed that- but the next thing I know I'm inside our extended family's groupchat AT 1 AM.
My mom's siblings, her cousins, the cousins' kids and their wives and husbands- all of them are there in the GC.
So in my country or culture or whatever, if someone sees you using your phone at night, they automatically think you have a boyfriend/girlfriend. And having one is actually very taboo here. my mom's cousins actually collect their kids' phones at night so they won't use them. And they're quite gossipy. For more context: we live in the city and they live in our hometown which is not very much of a city, so my sister and I have grown up listening to their taunts about our clothes and stuff like that.
So I quickly deleted the link to the swim bag and immediately sent it to my sister so I have backup and evidence that I actually in fact was browsing swim bags and not texting some boyfriend.
So now, I've to not only deal with my mom, but also the possible gossips from my extended family :,) they're probably gonna say stuff like "who is she texting at 1 am" "why should she use her phone at 1 am"
I think I can handle mom. She wakes up at 7 am usually. I've already panic set alarms till 5 - 6 so I can wake up before her and start working out and being active (she's happy when I'm not lazy) and somehow explain the situation to her...
But I really donno about my extended fam... I don't wanna give af either.
I JUST WANTED TO BUY A SWIM BAG
TL;DR I accidentally sent the link to the swim bag I wanted to my conservative extended family group chat at 1 am.