My (37F) young coworker (20F) was talking about what she needed to buy for her upcoming trip across the country. I was trying to be helpful and offered for her to use my suitcases for her trip so she can save money. I get the suitcases out of my closet and make sure the smaller one is inside the bigger one and make sure that there is nothing in the bigger suitcase pockets. After every trip I always make sure to empty out my suitcases before I put them up, so I didn’t think about looking in them. TIFU by assuming there was nothing in the smaller suitcase since I hadn’t used it in 2 years. Why oh why did I do this! If I could turn back time I would.
I drop off the suitcases to my coworker and go home feeling happy about the good deed I’ve done. A day later I get a message that starts off with, “Don’t be embarrassed but you left something in your suitcase.” I’m like ok, maybe it’s underwear or something. Nope next she sends me a picture of a self pleasure toy I barely remember having. She even asked me if she needed to bring it to me… I was like for the love of God just throw it away! True story I don’t know why it was in there other than maybe I was thinking it was a good place to hide it from my nosey kids. I am panicking! I’m like please tell me this is not happening… and she’s so young!!!
She was so mature about it and I’m over here planning to quit my job and leave the country. I immediately had to tell my husband what happened and we cosmic laughed for 2 whole hours until we were so sore. (I tell my husband everything). Even he is like how did it get in there and why didn’t you check both suitcases. For the life of me I wish I knew why I didn’t just look in the smaller suitcase. My first day seeing her after this was super akward but we just laughed and went on and I apologized profusely.
TL;DR Always check your suitcases and never assume it’s empty!
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I knew what was in the suitcase just from the title lol
Yea I conveniently forgot I stow my vibrator in my luggage 🤔. It’s ok, you don’t have to pretend….you, me, and the rest of the world know you remember why it was in there!
Would’ve been funnier if it was a carry you lent her and they found it in security! 🙀
Of course it’s company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo… always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.
I’m impressed that the 20 year old even brought it up. I think I might just be like HOLY SHIT and throw it away and never speak of it in hopes you would never know or remember it was in there. That or I would take it out, use the suitcase, put it back in and give it back to you in the hopes that you wouldn’t use it (the suitcase) anytime soon.
She is very outspoken and speaks her mind so to her I can see where she’s like oh she might need this. I would have definitely been the one to throw it away and never mention it.
Was it this?
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My wife was issued a new corporate laptop and backpack and turned in her old laptop and bag. The next day an IT guy calls and asks her to stop by. He’s sheepishly says I thought you might want this back and pulls a bra out of his desk. She completely forgot stuffing it in her bag after the gym weeks earlier.
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Younger people today are likely to be more knowledgeable in the subject than older people
Shes 20, she gets it.
Waiting for a “TIFU by borrowing luggage from my coworker..” post
This is one of those moments that’s equal parts hilarious and mortifying, and honestly, it’s completely relatable. You were just trying to do something kind for your younger coworker, and the universe decided to throw in a surprise that no one saw coming. It’s totally understandable that you assumed the smaller suitcase was empty, especially since you hadn’t used it in two years and always make a habit of cleaning them out. The shock of her message and that picture must have made your soul leave your body for a second, but the way she handled it with maturity is impressive, and it sounds like you were able to laugh about it in the end. The fact that you and your husband could share a good, long laugh afterward makes the whole experience a little easier to live with. Sure, it was awkward seeing her again, but you owned it, apologized, and moved on. In the end, it’s a funny story you’ll probably never forget and a solid reminder that no suitcase should ever be trusted.
Great advice
She was mature about it .. you’re golden . Take her out for drinks in a year or two and laugh your asses off about it.
Own that shit! Absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, maybe y’all could have some coffee and go toy shopping together. New bestie 💓
There isnt enough bleach in the world that would make me still use that suitcase
It’s nothing to be embarrassed about. Adults use toys as part of a healthy sex life, single or otherwise. Would you be embarrassed if you left a curling iron in there? Of course not. This shouldn’t be any different if it weren’t for an outdated cultural stigma around it.
I mean. The suitcase is where I keep all my dildos, you’re not alone 😂
Lmao I had a friend stay at my place when I was out of town, came home to find a bottle of “sex toy cleaner” under my bed. I never said a damn word but if it was a closer friend I would have teased them for the rest of time!
I left my purse in the movie theater once. When I got to the parking lot, I realized this and ran back inside, only to find a police officer going through my very small, sparsely-populated purse, looking for an ID. It was a little toy, but it would have been next to impossible for him to not see it. I was mortified.
Lmao, that’s mortifying, but you handled it like a champ!
You should have said it was your husband’s
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen the big, beefy female Jamaican customs agent pull an _enormous_ dildo out of the suitcase of the tiny woman in line in front of you. I thought she was going to slap it in her hand like a nightstick.
Honestly, mistakes happen – sounds like you both handled it with grace.
When my now 23 yo daughter was a toddler, we started her at an in home, very professional, day care. The woman who ran it was an absolute gem and we still see her around town every so often and catch up. So one day they did some kind of art project or something, where there was something to bring home. Being new to the game, we didn’t take her over there with any kind of bag, so when we picked her up, the lady put whatever it was in one of her teenage daughter’s old back packs and said, oh go ahead and keep it and use it whenever you bring her here so she has a bag. We had the bag for maybe a month or so, when we used it for a beach day trip. My wife decided to empty it out and clean it before the trip. Well, what a surprise when my wife found several unused condoms in 15 yo girls old backpack.
Yep, probably hid it from the kids and forgot. lol
My 14 yr old daughter was helping me clean out an old armoire that we turning into a game cabinet and she pulled out a tackle box. Never even registered in my mind WHY a tackle box was in there as my husband has a shed for all his hunting/fishing gear. She opened it and OMG I almost died! It was literally stuffed with ALL of my (and her dad’s) stuff from lotions to toys to fuzzy handcuffs. LMAO Obviously, we hadn’t been in there in years!
Thank God she was a very mature 14 and just laughed it off. She’s 32 now and still likes to bring that one up once in awhile. LOL
ahhh, 20 isn’t “so young!” My best friend bought me my first vibrator when I was 15 lmao
Chill out she’s 20 not 12 lol. I’ve been masturbating since at least age 14. It’s cool lmao
This is so funny
I like how you used the indefinite article “a self pleasure toy.”
Not, you know…”MY self pleasure toy.”
😆🤣🤣🫠
Funny if 20F had returned the suitcase with a post-it note on it – Thanks, this was so helpful!
Flipping your genitals inside out.
I can wear my shirt inside out, still a shirt.
You know she probably has a bunch more of them than you.
Lmao, that’s mortifying, but you handled it like a champ!
She has just as many or more as you don’t your worry lol
Damn
She’s 20, not 12 she probably has one, if not a few, of her own. You can relax, she’s not judging you, and understands. Laugh with her about it and be friends.
“..not to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. Use the indefinite article.
A dildo.
Never your dildo.”
She has 7 of her own. It’s not a big deal.
How are you going to leave the country if she’s got your suitcases?
You are not the only people who use toys…
Should just tell her a friend owned up to putting it there to prank you next time you went to the airport.
The real question, did she actually throw it away, or is your coworker now using your previously…… enjoyed….. toy?
Bwahahahaha, okay I would have also been mortified and would have laughed my butt off.
Makes me think of the time I lent my brother my suitcase for his first business trip. He returned it to me no problem, and I shoved it back in storage until I had to travel the following month for work.
I get to TSA security and after my bag goes through the scanner, the agent calls another one over to go through my bag. They ask me the usual questions – sharp objects, etc. and I’m like uh…nope? Also ask me if I let anyone else pack my bag, which was a new one. I’m like of course not. Then the dude pulls out this necklace with what looks like human ears in a small package.
Me: What the actual…
TSA: um…
Me: (panicking because I think I’m in deep poo) I can honestly say I’ve never seen that before, sir.
TSA: (squints at the necklace, then hands it to me and starts laughing) Ma’am I think you’ll want to talk to your brother.
There was a post it note on the back of the packaged up ear necklace. It read “thanks for letting me use your suitcase. Saw this and thought you’d get a kick out of it! Your not-so-little brother”
Turns out the necklace was a Walking Dead gag gift of soap in the shape of ears. My baby brother knew I was a fan of the show and got it for me as a present.
I called him immediately after slinking away from the laughing TSA. Told him I was at the airport and nearly got detained for his gift. He was dying of laughter and asked me why I hadn’t opened up the bag when I got it back from him or how I didn’t notice it when packing (I shove things in at the last minute, what can I say).
I always inspect my bags now before I pack.
Could be worse. I worked at a live performance theater in the early 00s. We had a guest artist come in and play with the house symphony. She was a lovely person and things went well. And when the cleaning crew came in after her final performance, they found a red double ended dildo in between the couch cushions. Eww.
That’s not how tldr works
When I moved in with my grandma for a month before starting college, she was helping me unpack and accidentally found my pink vibrator. She laughed and laughed and I was incredibly embarrassed, and she ended up telling my aunt (who is like my second mom and she was laughing too), but we went and visited my 93 yr old Oma, and my grandma told my OMA that I had one. thankfully my oma didn’t know what she was talking about, but my aunt was PISSED at my grandma and ripped her a new one. My grandma still never lets me forget 😅
My first thought was maybe she is flying Spirit, and will probably need to fuck herself. Then I saw that it was 2 bags you lent her; no one flying Spirit can afford to take 2 bags on the plane.
About forty years ago my uncle and his wife at the time bought a house….it was an older farmhouse out in the backwoods. My uncle and his wife weren’t all that much older than me-my uncle was basically the big brother I never had. All that to say, we partied together.
One night we’re hanging out at the new place and his wife nudges me and says, “hey, come check this out” and jerks her head towards their bedroom before getting up and walking that way.
I follow her and she goes to their closet, opens the door and pulls a shoe box off of the top shelf. She takes the lid off and we both lean over and look at….well, it looked like a very oversized citrus reamer carved out of Eastern red cedar. But instead of the traditional deep vertical grooves this was was carved in a shallow, multifaceted feathery pattern.
I leaned back and said, “What the fuck?”…..not that I was confused about the item…..it has a damned condom rolled over it. I was young, but not that young. My thinking was, ‘why is she showing my this? We’re not that drunk and not that close!
She also leans back and is like, “I know, right? So, we opened the attic (gestures to one of those slidey doors in the ceiling to the closet) to put some stuff in there, and Ron finds this shoebox!”.
We freak out over the weird homemade wooden sex toy, and then she tells me that they know the prior owners. They had sold the place after they built a new house just down the road. My aunt has a tweenaged daughter who had just happened to make friends on the schoolbus and at school with the previous homeowners’ tweenaged daughter. The girls had frequent sleepovers, so there were frequent face to face meetings with the O’cedar people.
I’ve always imagined the scene when the prior homeowners realized what they’d left behind.
I guess what I’m saying is it could’ve been worse?
something similar happened to my dad’s best friend: he was a widower and was dating someone new (years later). she invites him on a trip and he uses one of his late wife’s suitcases for a carry-on. he was not aware that she had hidden a loaded handgun in it; he did not catch that flight.
Mortifying but hilarious! You survived, props for laughing it off.
if this makes you feel any better at ALL— I have a story for you: years ago my dad was diagnosed with lymphoma, and as you can imagine he became a little preoccupied with treatments, so his memory was not always the best. my parents were long-term divorced, as my dad was a flaming homosexual; but they remained good friends and lived together in the house they’d bought years before together, just on different floors of the home. my mom was a travel nurse so she was gone between 2-3 weeks a month, and I was maybe 14 so I was in school 5 days a week— leaving him ample free time. she began coming home more to help care for him following radiation, and one day requested I go get something from beneath her bathroom sink.
much to my surprise upon opening the cabinet, I found a plastic bag with an incredibly visible and distinctive silhouette inside. I gasped loud enough for my mother to hear in the next room, and she came to investigate and immediately shouted to my dad that he’d left “a behemoth” in her bathroom— and my poor twink-of-a-dad panicked and came SPRINTING in to grab the bag and hide it (and preserve any shred of my childhood innocence that was left), only for the largest dildo imaginable to come flying out of it with such force that it bounced and left a crack in her drywall. mortified doesn’t even begin to describe our reactions, he screamed in a way only a fearful animal could, and honestly I think my soul left my body because I cannot remember how he managed to pick it up and escape. turns out he had been coping with his illness in ✨his own special way✨ in her larger bathtub; she bullied him relentlessly for it until he passed a couple years later. she never patched the hole in the wall either, so it’s a fun little Easter egg in her house now that only we know the source of. he’s been gone 10 years now and I still get a cringe and a giggle thinking about it.
This is how you make a friend for life. Since she’s going to destroy you if you don’t.
It’s a story to remember and laugh. I am not sure if it’s her innocence or something else but asking you if you need that toy back is really thoughtful.
It’s better that she’s young cuz the younger generation is more understanding about this.
It could always be worse. It wasn’t anything that could get her in trouble at the airport. You are good.
girl you gave her a bonus travel experience 😭 suitcase said “surprise!” and kept it pushin
“Cosmic laughed”
I now need to use that phrase 🙂