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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Girly_Attitude on 2025-11-06 02:41:33+00:00.
My friends/roommates and I were having one of those nights; the ones where anything and everything they say makes you laugh. They could say “my shoe is untied” and you’d burst into giggles. In this case, we were talking about the bathroom, which smelled like fish after we used drain cleaner. My friend was complaining about how she didn’t want to use a fish-smelling bathroom. That of course made me giggle, but I happened to be drinking water. I choked a little but managed to calm it down. Then she walked into the bathroom and said “ugh it smells DISGUSTING”. I was taking another sip of water at the time—big mistake.
This time I wasn’t able to just swallow the water and move on. I swallowed, but I did not move on. I started choking, gasping for breath. I literally could not breathe, I thought I was dying. All I got out were these little rasping gasps. Finally I stumbled over to the kitchen sink and started throwing up. That was my second mistake; I should’ve gone for the trash can. This whole time my one friend is hiding (she doesn’t like puke noises) and my other friend is standing across the room asking repeatedly “are you dying? Are you dying?” which I could not answer because…I couldn’t breathe.
It took me like two minutes to get my breathing back to normal; I was rasping for a good while. My friend just kinda stared at me until I could talk and say I was good. The worst part is the friend that asked if I was dying is premed, so out of the two people in the room, she’s the one who could actually help. Now I’m concerned about her future patients lol.
TL;DR: laughed while drinking water, couldn’t breathe for two minutes, threw up in a sink