There's nothing quite like the mortifying moment of being caught red-handed. You can't lie, you can't undo it— all you can do is hope for some forgiveness.
When "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon asked viewers to share their funniest #IGotCaught moments on Twitter, the responses were nothing short of hilarious.
Here are 17 of the funniest and most embarrassing #IGotCaught tweets.
\u201c@jimmyfallon I sent my husband a text to tell him our friend was going to leave her husband.Accidentally sent it to her husband #IGotCaught\u201d— Jimmy Fallon (@Jimmy Fallon) 1487185171
\u201cCalled in sick to work one day. Saw one of my students at the beach. We nodded as we both realized we were skipping my class. #IGotCaught\u201d— Perkinskiii \ud83d\udcad (@Perkinskiii \ud83d\udcad) 1487190420
\u201c@jimmyfallon sent a sext to my husband... forgot his mom was in a group chat lol #igotcaught\u201d— Jimmy Fallon (@Jimmy Fallon) 1487185171
\u201c#IGotCaught looking up a guy's info on a college computer. Heard his voice behind me telling me how to correctly spell his last name.\u201d— Julie W (@Julie W) 1487190237
\u201cI called off sick to go to a music festival. The next day my boss said "next time don't stand in the front row." I was on tv #IGotCaught\u201d— Unknown (@Unknown) 1487192145
\u201cAfter a shower, I stood naked for a sec by the window watching a cat. Just then, the Google Maps CAMERA CAR drove down my street #IGotCaught\u201d— AL (@AL) 1487192059
"IGotCaught holding a bong. My mom asked what it was and what the weird smell was. I said it was my science project for a new air freshener"
— Lisa Lemon (@mseric) February 15, 2017
\u201cI copy and pasted an entire APA paper in high school my senior year. Handed it in and got a 0/100 #igotcaught\u201d— steve (@steve) 1487262826
\u201cChristmas Eve, my daughter got up and saw me eating one of Santa's cookies. She wasn't happy. She said "Don't do it next year!" #IGotCaught\u201d— Julie Powell (@Julie Powell) 1487201960
"I went to a sex shop with my wife for the first time, the store assistant greeted me with: "nice to see you again!" #IGotCaught"
— Leonardo Grossi (@leonardo_grossi) February 15, 2017
\u201c@jimmyfallon I snuck out at age 15 to go to a drinking party. The door bell rang, I answered the door, there stood my mom #IGOTCAUGHT\u201d— Jimmy Fallon (@Jimmy Fallon) 1487185171
\u201c@jimmyfallon #igotcaught when my boss caught me dozing off at my desk,I raised my head slowly&said "Amen".\u201d— Jimmy Fallon (@Jimmy Fallon) 1487185140
\u201c@jimmyfallon on a first date and sent a text to what I thought was my buddy saying "this date is awful SOS"...sent it to her #igotcaught\u201d— Jimmy Fallon (@Jimmy Fallon) 1487185140
\u201cI googled a guy before meeting him. Later I pulled out my phone to show him a picture of my dog and he saw the picture of him. #IGotCaught\u201d— Jimmy Fallon (@Jimmy Fallon) 1487185171
\u201c@jimmyfallon I was telling my friend about a guy that had a cute butt. The guy heard me and said Thanks. #IGotCaught @FallonTonight\u201d— Jimmy Fallon (@Jimmy Fallon) 1487185171
"one time I successfully took a picture of a guy without him noticing. Unfortunately his friend was right behind me. #igotcaught"
— Abby Michael (@flabbymichael) February 15, 2017
\u201cParents found out my bro threw a house party after finding the wifi password pinned up evrywhere.His excuse,"I forgot it..a lot" #IGotCaught\u201d— Chloe Pacocha (@Chloe Pacocha) 1487253753
This article originally appeared on 06.13.21
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Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.