Submitted by jackredditlol t3_z7rto8 in tifu
A little background.
Since this semester started, we've had an online course with a teacher who's based outside of the country where the master's program is taking place. It's been planned since the semester started that we'd hold the last session together in person where we'll get to discuss the different projects we've all been working on during the semester.
Well that day was today, and I arrived in front of the classroom 30 minutes earlier because I got off my work shift. When I arrived to the classroom where the class is taking place, I noticed a cute girl sitting in front of it eating a snack and is on her phone. I tend to talk to girls on campus a lot, and so I approached her.
"Hey excuse me, wanna see a magic trick?" And I fan out half a deck of cards.
She gets excited and pulls out a card. I do the trick. And after that I told her that the real reason I approached her was because I thought she's cute. She started laughing but quickly stopped. I asked her what major she was doing. She said she's doing a PhD in the field of the subject we're gonna take. And it clicked in my head almost immediately. And the first thing I managed to blabber was, "Fuck".
Cue in 5 minutes of her laughing uncontrollably. I told her this is absolutely not how I envisioned our first encounter to go like and I apologized profusely for not recognising her right away IRL. In my defense, she had a different hairstyle than the one she usually has in class, and I told her again and again that I didn't mean anything by it and I just wanted to make conversation.
She said it's okay and it'll be okay like nothing happened. The class was awkward af and I still feel ashamed about it.
TL;DR: I hit on my online teacher because I didn't recognise her IRL.