Definition: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.
Input: Text: so i come home from work today to find my mother frantic in the basement due to a water leak in our kitchen sink that seeped through the floor and was dripping all over the place down below. i shut off all the water, get everything out of the area, and soak up all the excess water with towels.

once everything seems to have calmed down i go upstairs to inspect the plumbing on the sink. there was a plastic coupler that the seal looked to have gone bad on and was leaking. i remove it and head to my local hardware store to purchase a new one. after hunting around the store for a while, i can't seem to find the piece i am looking for and ask a cashier for assistance. she points me to another employee that is...unkempt to say the least. he had a very disheveled look, was missing his right eye, and had band-aids on his fingers. these all should have been warning signs that he probably wasn't the guy i should be asking help from.

after hunting around for a while, turns out that they don't have what i am looking for. however, the salesman suggests taking apart the coupler and just adding some rubber o-rings so it will seal and stop the leaks. now i'm not the most experienced person in plumbing, but i'm relatively handy and it seemed logical. i leave the store happy, hook up the coupler with the new o-rings, and kick the water on.

everything seemed to be fine at first. i sat for a minute inspecting for leaks, when all of a sudden the entire coupler blows in half where he had taken it apart to add the o-rings. hot water starts gushing out of the pipe faster than your first piss in the morning after a night of drinking. i'm yelling at my mother to run downstairs and turn off the water as i'm trying to hold a towel over the scalding hot water fountain i just created. gallons poured out all over what we had just cleaned up before she finally managed to get it shut off. 

the plumber will be here tomorrow at 10am.

TIFU by taking plumbing advice from a hardware salesman who was missing an eye and had bandages all over his fingers.