To my coworkers: I am so sorry
I (24F) am a nursing student and I work with elderly people.
During lunch with the residents we were talking about tv-shows.
The muppets were brought up and I couldn’t help myself.
I blurted out: Manamana Tutuuutududu
Pt 1: manamana tutudutu
Pt2: manamana
Pt3. TUTUUTUDU
Pt4: Heheehehe
Coworker: looking at me with daggers in her eyes
Pt 5&6: manamana
Pt3. TUTUUTUDUDU
Coworker 2: guys please stop and eat your lunch
Pt4: hehehehe
After a while they were silent. And then one pt said “manamana” under his breath.
The chaos started again
Long story short: for the rest of the shift the residents continued to sing the muppet song.
Im pretty sure my coworkers are plotting my downfall now
TL;DR: sang the muppet song in front of a bunch of elderly people. They kept singing it, to great annoyance of me coworkers
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I love it tbh
Your coworkers should lighten up! At least they’re having some fun, being in an old people’s home usually sucks.
Manamana
Mana mana!
Manamana
They would hate me as this is an ear worm that features regularly in my I can’t keep that in outbursts
Manamana
Sorry, you can’t post this to r/TIFU until one of your coworkers posts your downfall on r/pettyrevenge
You can’t sing in a nursing home? Nah, just kill me.
Tutututuduuu
Edit: I think that’s fantastic – a bunch of old people having fun. Nothing like a bit of music to lighten their day
Great. Now 90% of reddit is also singing it.
Doo doo da doo doo
It’s time to get things started…
You just wait till Gen X is securely in the nursing homes. Chaos will be an understatement.
Fun fact, that song is actually from a French porno originally.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/mahna-mahna-came-porn-film-flna6c9593504
This is great and your coworkers need to take out the broomsticks from their asses
I work at a nursing home, and this kind of fun with the residents is what makes everyone’s day 😂
THAT IS NOT A FU, that is EPIC.
Every day hero!!!
I now am singing this song.
Thank you kind internet stranger.
Love ya!
Curses on you for placing an earworm like that.
Also, you are a wonderful human being for bringing a ray of humor into that community’s lives.
Oh my gosh! I have lists! 😂 Sherry and Lambchop’s This is the Song That Never Ends is another super fun one that will get everyone laughing and reminiscing ♡♡♡
Your coworkers sound lame af everybody knows that song is a banger.
You probably made their day! Their month even.
That’s hysterically funny.
That’s my ringtone and it always makes people happy. NTA
Aww, that’s sweet!
I like your energy lol
When I’m in a nursing home, I want to start getting the other elderly millennials singing this song.
LOL! Do you know the sketch with Kermit and Sandra Bullock about the muppet song…? I dare you to show it to the patients…! I don’t know if posting the link works, but I’ll try, if it does not work look up “manah manah Sandra Bullock” on YT…
https://youtu.be/g4l1k4XLvo0?si=nRT_57oePBC2LI5X
This made me so happy to hear. I bet those elderly folks had so much fun.
I literally laughed out loud at this!! I don’t think it’s a FU at all— you brought some fun into the residents’ lives!
I once took my dad to the place where he was getting his new prosthetic leg. 7 of us in the waiting room, I was the only person with all 4 limbs.
The tv was on, it was the Teletubbies. Doing the fucking Hokey Cokey…
You are amazing! I love this post! I was singing it too, and i was smiling the entire time! Still am, and you win reddit for the day!
As gen x, can we do the Lego movie song? Everything is awesome!
Are you sure the residents aren’t giggling because they remember the original use of that song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjcqDvdT538
Now sing “This is the song that doesn’t end”. Your coworkers will LOVE you!
I’m baffled by your coworker’s reactions, honestly. It sounds like they are treating these elderly adults like children in preschool. Who is the staff to tell a group of adults to stop talking/joking around and eat?