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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Educational-Phase102 on 2026-02-15 21:23:03+00:00.

This happened a little while ago, but it hasn't left my mind.

I (18 F) have always been a science nerd, so I'm pretty close with my high school science teachers since I've had some of them more than once (honors courses to AP). When I was a junior, I took AP Physics 1, and I had a fun, amazing teacher (calling him Mr. Smith). He had a coffee machine in the back of his classroom that he let us use whenever we wanted, and it had a pair of googly eyes on it, so it kind of resembled a silly face.

He told us a story about why it had googly eyes: He once pranked his wife by putting googly eyes on everything in their kitchen. Super fun and silly, obviously harmless. I thought it was a cute way to prank someone.

Now it's my senior year, and I'm taking AP Physics C with my old teacher, and he mentions the story again, and I was inspired to prank my favorite teacher (Mrs. Miller), who was the chemistry teacher.

I had this teacher every year for the three years I was at my high school (I moved there before my sophomore year), and she made me fall in love with chemistry. I enjoyed the content, and I always did phenomenal in the chemistry courses. During my final semester, instead of a traditional 3rd block, I did a "work-study" with her, but in reality, I just had a free period and I would sit in her class for two hours until I had to go to Mr. Smith's class for my final block.

I came up with a plan to prank her my putting googly eyes on random things in her classroom, and I recruited three of my friends and Mr. Smith to help me pull it off. He came and told us when she stepped out of her classroom, and said she wouldn't be back for 10-15 minutes. During this time, we starting googly-eyeing everything we could. Eventually, Mr. Smith came back and said she would be back any minute, so two of my friends left. The only people left in the classroom were me and my friend, Austin, because we wanted to see her reaction to our prank.

This is where it gets bad fast...

I decided to set up my phone to record her reaction because I thought it would be funny. Austin and I crouched behind a lab bench to surprise her after she saw everything. Eventually, she comes back in with another teacher, and they're gossiping about another teacher. I knew the rumor they were discussing because it went around the entire student body. The "rumor" was about how another teacher was having an inappropriate relationship with a student, and there were certain pictures involved.

By the time we realized what was happening, it was too late to jump up and tell them we were hiding in there. We had to sit behind the bench for around 10 minutes while they discussed the whole thing. Mind you, my phone is STILL recording. I'm panicking and covering my ears because I felt so guilty eavesdropping on their conversation and literally recording the entire thing.

I knew Mrs. Miller had an appointment, so she would be leaving before our last block and decided to sit and wait it out. Eventually, she left (didn't even see our prank) and Austin bolted out the back door because he had to get back to his actual class. She saw him in the hallway, and got suspicious as to why he was there. She figured out he was in the room, and went to Mr. Smith and our biology teacher, Mrs. Wood crying because she felt terrible for gossiping and was embarrassed he heard the conversation. At this point, she did not know I was also in the room.

After she actually left, I ran to Mr. Smith and told him everything. I told him we got stuck and recorded the entire conversation. Obviously, I deleted the video because I absolutely did not want anyone's career to be jeopardized because of a stupid prank. Him and Mrs. Wood said they would talk to her and explain everything since they knew I had no bad intentions.

I ended up skipping school the following day because I was too afraid to face Mrs. Miller. She was my favorite teacher, and I hated the idea that she wouldn't like me anymore because I fucked up SO bad. When I went back, the first thing I did was go to Mrs. Wood and ask her to come with me to the chemistry classroom to talk to Mrs. Miller. She gave me a hug and walked me down, and when I saw Mrs. Miller, I burst into tears and started apologizing profusely. She felt so bad that I was so upset over it, and said she saw our prank the next morning, and it did make her laugh. She mainly felt bad because she thought she was setting a bad example for us by gossiping (like girl be real LOL as if we all don't), and she was not mad at me at all.

Everything was fine afterwards, and we all completely forgot about the situation. I probably won't be pranking anyone else for a long time.

TL;DR: I pranked my favorite teacher and wanted to record her reaction but ended up recording a gossip session that contained confidential information. We got everything sorted out and all is well.