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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Hopefuloctopus on 2024-11-19 20:49:14+00:00.

I (23F) am still dying of embarrassment thinking about what happened to me today, don’t know how I’m going to face them again (if i ever end up facing them again).

So for some context I have been working overtime for the last few days - starting around 8am and finishing at 10pm not including travel time, as well as studying for exams on top of this…So I am very sleep deprived to say the least. We also have a very large team at work and we rotate around different departments very often. So it’s very common that I work with a range of different collegues for a few weeks at a time and then move on and end up running into people later during work that I haven’t seen in a long time.

This morning I was doing some jobs and i stopped for a rest in the corridor because i was feeling exhausted, so i recided to lean up against the wall to give myself a rest. Thats when a group of collegues passed me by, all of whom I didn’t know except from one girl who I met through mutual friends (but I don’t know her super well). Anyway, she says hello and approaches me (as we also haven’t seen eachother in some time). She reaches an arm out towards me… which I thought was a little suprising at the time as they have never hugged me before… but with my tired brain on autopilot I go for it, I reach my arm out and hug her… NOPE she was grabbing something that was on the shelf right over my shoulder 😭😭😭

I was super embarrassed and felt myself turn bright red as I tried to then have a normal conversation with her until she had to carry on with what she had been doing with her team.

What do I do guys?? I haven’t stopped thinking about this all day 😭

TL;DR - I thought my collegue was trying to give me a hug so I reached my arm out in response but they were actually just trying to grab something off the shelf I was standing next to/partially in front of. And it was a very awkward encounter.