SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU by terrifying a freshie for weeks
POST: So, this is about 4 years ago. I was a sophomore in highschool. 
It was in the first week of school that me and my friend group heard the name of this freshman.. He had an awesome name. Idk how i can make something comparable.. We'll call him Barry Powers. It wad like that, a superhero type name. So anyway, we heard the name Barry Powers during freshman roll call and we were like "damn! What a sick name!" And made it our ultimate mission to find this guy.
And so we searched.
It took weeks. 
Whenever we met other freshmen, we asked, "do you know Barry Powers?" And other questions like "what does he look like?", "where did you last see him?", and "where can we find him?".  We really wanted to find this kid and congratulate him on his name.
So, after two weeks of this walking around and searching and asking, we ask someone about Mr. Powers and their answer is "oh, he's right there."  we get freakin hyped and beeline to the dude, who looks at us with fear in his eyes. Thinking back on it, we had the poor kid, who was eating lunch on his own, in a corner surround by 4 of us. I asked, "hey man. You Barry Powers?"
"y-yeah.." He managed to respond. 
"oh, well, you have a sweet name!" I said.
"ok.." Mumbled Powers. Now, the next moment was like the end of an always sunny episode; my friends and I looked around and each other and decided, "oh cool we did it, moving on now."
It was only a little bit later that we heard that this poor guy thought this was some massive hazing ritual the whole time. And since we had asked so many people, most of the freshman class thought here was some crazy hazing where we chose one random dude, hunted him down, and did something to him. Oops!
We search for names, and meet a former freshman in elementary school without any luck. He lashes up, and we get scary.
"bright and sweet," screamed the american college scholarship. who knew. And then his friend started asking questions, just to be sure. frickin' great guy, i hate this.. and just wanted to keep the locals from murdering him. I'm bawling.. I keep wanting to be like uh-oh... you know, in a downtown movie featuring the high school gossip bit in the 1980s... uh oops 5
"bright and sweet," screamed the american college scholarship. who knew. And then his friend started asking questions, just to be sure. frickin' great guy, i hate this.. and just wanted to keep the locals from murdering him. I'm bawling.. I keep wanting to be like uh-oh... you know, in a downtown movie featuring the high school gossip bit in the 1980s... uh oops 5
We search for names, and meet a former freshman in elementary school without any luck. He lashes up, and we get scary.