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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/PearlTheGeckoGirl on 2024-09-13 18:03:21+00:00.
I am at an eye doctor appointment with my spouse. They dilated her eyes and it takes time for the drops to work so they had us sit in a waiting room for a while. In the waiting room they had a TV. Usually I hate TVs in doctors' offices, but this one was playing short videos of pets and other animals being cute. I didn't feel like reading and my social media was alternating between boring and depressing. So this wasn't so bad. Suddenly there was a creature on the screen that wasn't a cat or dog (or turtle or lizard or snake). The patient next to me asked "What is that?" Another patient responded "I think it's a chinchilla." I recognized it as a sugar glider, and attempted to say so, but the words that came out of my mouth were "sugar baby".
TL;DR I referred to a sugar glider as a sugar baby in public.