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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/CarobImpossible9 on 2026-07-27 22:48:05+00:00.

A neighbor in my building group asked if anyone had a tiny screwdriver for his coffee grinder. I had one, went downstairs and helped him tighten a loose part. Took 30 seconds.

He posted in the group thanking me for fixing it, so I joked that my repair shop was officially open and I accepted payment in coffee.

A woman from the third floor messaged me almost immediately asking if I could look at her flickering lamp. I told her I was kidding and had no idea how lamps worked, but she said it was probably something simple.

Then another guy asked about his toaster. Someone else sent me a photo of a desk fan making a weird noise. The original neighbor kept replying to people saying I was being modest because I saved him money on a new grinder.

By the evening three different people were trying to arrange times to bring things over for me to fix. I turned them all down and explained that I literally just tightened one screw, but one of them still replied with “no worries, whenever you have time.”

I muted the building group after someone asked if I also repair microwaves.

TLDR: Fixed one loose screw, made one joke, and accidentally became my apartment building’s appliance repair guy.