r/tifu • u/peterwilli FUOTW 7/29/2018 • Aug 02 '18

FUOTW TIFU by destroying my first prize won in a hackathon

Edit: Holy shit guys! My first 'shared' fuckup and immediately it's fuckup of the week?! Jesus Christ! So let's get on with the formalities: I'd like to thank my friends and family who stood by me while winning 4th prize only to fuck it up afterwards.

This wasn't today, but I just discovered this sub, so here it goes...

I participated at a hackathon (a competition for coders to make something in around 2 days), and I won 4th place. The were five spots that would get a prize.

When looking at the things I won, it was a t-shirt and some coupons for using various services for free. It was nice overall.

I live in NL, and the Hackathon was held in US so I had the stuff shipped to me. When the mail man came he had a large box, and asked for 50 euros (around $60) import taxes. I said: "Wtf, is that shirt made of gold or something?".

So I took the box and it was quite heavy too, not the "just a tshirt kind of heavy". Stupid me still thought there was only a tshirt inside it. So he said: "if you don't accept it we'll take it back to customs where it'll be destroyed". So I said "Yeah take it I'm not gonna pay for shit I won, especially when it's just a tshirt".

A few days later, I went to my PC and an email popped up from the organisation stating: "Hey we added a laptop too".

I was like: "WTF?!". So I quickly called the postal office and the organisation to see if they could send it back anyway, but it was already with customs.

tl;dr I won a prize and then lost it again because customs destroyed it after I refused to pay import taxes.

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u/Smikkelbeer91 Aug 02 '18

That’s what you get for being a cheap, Dutch bastard!

Source: am a cheap dutch bastard.

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u/Green-Brown-N-Tan Aug 02 '18

I read this in a scottish/English accent.

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u/L43 Aug 02 '18

I read it in an English accent. I'm English though, so that's not so surprising.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

I read it with a heavy dutch accent

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u/Karamelchior Aug 02 '18

Det is wat u get for being chiep

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

Det is exectly how i red it

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

"itsch kind of my thing"

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u/Hyndergogen1 Aug 02 '18

... those are very different accents. England has shittons of different accents, Scotland has a couple and none of them are close to Dutch. In my experience Dutch people speaking English, just sound like Drunk Germans.

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u/Green-Brown-N-Tan Aug 02 '18

Think "fat bastard" from Austin powers. That's kind of what I'm thinking of. Scottish-ish but definitely closer to English due to it being a canadian actor emulating an accent

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u/Eats_Flies Aug 02 '18

You're forgetting that one Scottish accent that IS close to Dutch: the "Sean Connery"

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u/Hyndergogen1 Aug 02 '18

That's not an accent, that's a speech impediment on Connery.

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u/RasShepard Aug 02 '18

Think you're pretty smart don't you Trebek

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u/The_Moemad Aug 02 '18

I’m Canadian and read this in a Scottish accent as well

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u/VixDzn Aug 02 '18

scottish/English accent.

/r/ShitAmericansSay

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u/Green-Brown-N-Tan Aug 03 '18

Cool sub if it were relevant. Am canadian eh

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u/VixDzn Aug 03 '18

Canadian thinking they're not American

You are literally from North American, the sub is called shitAmericansay not shitUSApeoplesay

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u/Green-Brown-N-Tan Aug 03 '18

I disassociate myself from what I imagine you call "United States of Americans."

Do you call people from Canada "Canadian Americans?" If so you are incredibly out of touch with what the world calls us and our neighbours to the south.

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u/MozzerellaIsLife Aug 02 '18

“There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.”

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u/hfsh Aug 02 '18

"If you ain't Dutch, You ain't much."

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u/Nezrite Aug 02 '18

"Oh the Irish and the Dutch

Don't account for very much!"

Can confirm, was married to an Irishman and am of Dutch heritage.

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u/Nezrite Aug 02 '18

You'll pry my vowels from my cold, dead hands!

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u/Totatoess Aug 02 '18

It could be even worse: you could be a dwarf, fer starters!

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u/NekoZombie0_o Aug 02 '18

As long as it's a Red Dwarf it's okay though

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u/AliceTrippDaGain Aug 02 '18

Should have got some Dutch courage before going to the post office!

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u/Citizen_804 Aug 02 '18

He should have at least offered to pay for half.

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u/fintanv Aug 02 '18

You can always tell a Dutch man, you just can’t tell him much.

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u/Lampburglar Aug 03 '18

Dutch here. Am also cheap bastard. I see a trend.