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: one of the companies i work with has outsourced much of their phone support to native america. as a result of this and the fact most company-wide it related communications come from my email address, i regularly get emails and calls from people looking for a quick answer to almost any it related question. i typically ignore them. occasionally, if i'm in a good mood and it's a simple thing, i'll reply. 

so, today i get a call from "carson" in security (i can't say whether i'm using his real name or not, because i could barely understand him through the thick southern drawl). he accidentally disconnected the video cable to the building's digital display system doing something. what he was doing, i can only guess, but it's an educated guess after i found out what happened later. anyhow... from what he described, there's three computers at that desk: one is the computer that all of the digital displays in that park mirror, one is the computer that monitors and configures the security badge system, and one owned by the security contracting company that is extranet (not on the company's network system) for their email.

i only answered the call because the masking told me it came from inside the company and possibly important, so i tell him i can't assist. he apologizes for calling me directly, but says "i hate calling [the helpdesk] and having to repeat everything i say to 'habeeb', and i'm in a real hurry." (i should point out that his southern accent was of a variety that made it hard for me to understand, so i can empathize with "habeeb"). he tells me he accidentally unplugged the "tv system", which i gather he thinks is a closed circuit system, and needs me to help him "sort the spaghetti" so the digital display system will be functional when people come to work in a few minutes. after telling him that he should call the a/v group, and him persisting, i ask him to look for a digital splitter box and describe what it looks like. finally, he finds it, and when i ask him to read what it says, he rattles off the brand and other non important things before saying "vga input."

i tell him to find a vga cable, and he has no idea what one is. i describe it to him and he says there are two like that. i tell him to contact the a/v group again, but he starts swearing because it's now 8am, and people are arriving, it'll take too much time, etc. exasperated, i ask him what color the two cables are, and he says one is blue and one is white. "a-ha!" i think, "the blue is the vga and the white is dvi." since most of the cables that come with monitors are colored that way. i tell him it's the blue one, he tells me he's plugging in the blue cable, and after a moment i ask "all set?"

there's a long silence, as he probably had set down the phone. i ask if it worked again, and he just exhales. 

after another couple seconds he says, "that wasn't the right cable, so it's gotta be the other one. thanks a heap," he says politely, and hangs up. happy to have the call over and pleased with the fact i did someone a solid, i go back to reading my emails and forget about it.

so it was this evening i was doing a lync session with one of the teams from that company. halfway through, one of the guys passes the screen sharing to someone else to present, and the second guy says "hold on, not yet! i have a video chat going..." and everyone laughs. i ask "oh, so did they finally pilot 2013 for you guys, now?" (that company disabled lync video and isn't on 2013 lync, yet) to which everyone laughs harder. when they realize i'm totally oblivious to what they're taking about, they tell me some security guy in the "brain lanes" (sarcastic nickname for the r&d complex) shared some video chat window he had with all of the digital displays, and was promptly canned.

i didn't tell them about the phone call, nor did i ask about what was in the video chat. i just said "huh," and we continued with our meeting. i guess they have white vga cables there. maybe so they can tell them apart when there's more than one, and dvi/dp/hdmi/anything from the 21st century isn't compatible with either monitor or computer. 

poor guy.

TIFU by by assuming all VGA cables have blue connectors.