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 story begins last saturday as i was attending a relative's birthdayparty. here i talked to a cousin of my mine who showed me the scp website. (for those who don't know this is a huge catalogue of fictive stories about mysterious things and creatures held my a secret organisation to secure contain and protect) as someone who enjoys spending a lot of time at night reading this seemed like the perfect kind of content for me to go through as the usual hunt through the various reddit pages sometimes feels a bit dry. my cousin then proceeds to tell me that i absolutely have to read about [scp 087] and while doing so i should have a rather creepy song playing while going through the transcripts. at the time i looked at the initial description of what was apparently a haunted stairwell with a child asking for help somewhere deep down in the darkness. this didn't scare me at the time and i didn't think much of it as i am usually rather hard to scare.

however last night as i was browsing reddit i suddenly remembered the scp website and promptly went there. as i got through a couple other scp's i decided to start the music and check if it was some sort of cheap trick by my cousin to scare me with some sort of scream at a weird time of the video. it wasn't. however it did set the tone for my evening to be quite a bit more spooky than i had anticipated. i started to read the transcripts anyway which in retrospect really should have been done without the music.

as i got through the first two transcripts i was actually alright with it. i could feel the goosebumps a bit but in an entertained kind of way like watching a horror movie that intrigues you. so i continued through it and got to a point where it started to make me feel not so good. the transcripts tell of 3 individual investigations where someone traverses down the stairwell. the first two of which walk for quite a while until faced by a glowing face with humanlike features without being human. (bascially the worst type of face) the third person however doesn't see the face like the others until she at one point decides she has walked down long enough and tunrs around to realise that the face has been right behind her the whole time. this type of horror is something i don't like. creppy creatures and monsters that attack people i can live with but the sneaky creatures that adapt and mostly just watch freak me out. the transcripts then end as the third person is forced to run further down until she falls over and presumably dies.

great, the story is over, i'm more scared than i have been for a long time with some sort of paranoia starting to grow. i decide it's time to go to bed but can't shake the uneasy feelings from the story off. as i get to the bathroom it gets to the point where i scan the whole room for any potential monsters, even checking behind the shower curtain. (writing this in broad daylight makes me feel a bit shameful but in the moment i was dead serious) being ready to sleep i check my room for anything suspicious and go to sleep.

suddenly i wake up and just a few centimeters from my face is a glowing face. instinctively i punch it and complete darkness ensues, followed by a bump. i just lie there completely still trying to figure out what just happend. adrenaline pumping i jump out of bed quickly getting to the lightswitch and i turn it on to see what i have done. the reading lamp by the side of my bed is smashed and my phone lies under the bed. (my bed is about 2 meters in the air) the only thought in head at this point is fuck as i realise that i just destroyed my own lamp and pushed my phone off the shelf above it in my panic.

having calmed down i inspect my phone and luckily it appears without much more then a scratch on the side. the lamp however is done for. i then proceed to climb back into bed and try to sleep. a few minutes go by as i just keep rethinking how the hell the lamp turned on and how it all happend when i hear a sound about 200 meters outside the house. the sound of a child screaming. i freeze completely. awaiting some sort of other sound to follow by only complete silence. the next hour or so i just lie there in my bed waiting for something, anything to happen but nothing did appear.

 

so for those considering reading a creepy story late at night while playing music to scare yourselves. please don't, you might regret it.

TIFU by smashing my lamp, dropping my phone and making myself paranoid