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: this happened a few years ago back in college. i was studying music and wanted to get a set of custom in ear monitors. for those that don't know, these can get very expensive, very quickly. first you have to go to an audiologist to get molds of your ears and then send them off to a company that will make a pair of in ears for you. then you pay based on how many drivers you want in your headphones.

luckily for me, i met a guy at a gig who had a business of making custom in ear monitors. we hit it off and he offered to make me a pair for real cheap. i decided to go with him.

so to save money, instead of going to an audiologist i was sent a diy kit to get the custom molds. this kit came with two sets of putty and blocks to put in first so the putty wouldn't attach to your eardrum. the blocks had strings on them so you could use them to pull out the putty once it set. so i put the blocks in and then the putty and let it do its thing. the molds set fine so i sent them in. a few days later the guy making the in ears said i needed to redo it and that he would send me a new kit. so i got the new mixture and put the blocks and putty in again. the new set came out fine and so i decided to make a second set with the putty i had a few days ago....

this is where i eff'd up.

the putty from the first batch had been sitting and didn't set completely. when i went to pull on the string, the block pulled right through the putty and out of my ear leaving the putty behind.

i'm thinking, "okay, i gotta wash this out so it doesn't attach to my ear drum." so for the next 30 minutes i tried everything to get it out. i tried q tips, warm water, rubbing alcohol...and then my ear started ringing. f***! the putty had finally hardened and completely closed off my ear. i immediately found the nearest redi med and booked it over there.

the dr. at the clinic saw it wedged in there and tried to pull on it but realized that it may be attached to my eardrum. he didn't want to damage my ear drum and recommended i go elsewhere. so i found another place that wasn't in a cvs and went there. i gave them my info and then had to wait for what seemed like forever. this is when i started to panic. i just sat there with my ear ringing, freaking out that i might not be able to hear again or that my ear drum was damaged.

the nurse finally called me back, weighed me, took my blood pressure and then sat me in a room and asked me what happened. i explained the whole thing and she left the room and called for the dr. she was right outside the room laughing at me at how dumb i was and i'm just like, you know i can still hear you.....

so the dr. comes in, looks at it and gets an tool to grab ahold of it and just straight up yanks this thing out my ear. i'm like wtf you could of destroyed my ear drum!

i immediately feel relief and can hear fine again so the dr. hands me the putty that he just removed and the nurse is like, "never stick anything in your ear that's smaller than your elbow." i'm just like -_- and walk out of there.

later i get a bill for the "procedure" which was like $300. ugh.

moral of this story is go to an audiologist if you need custom in ear molds. it's worth keeping your hearing and not having to pay a dr. to yank a piece of putty out of your ear.

TIFU by using a DIY kit for custom in ear monitors