Meeting your partner's family is always a huge step in any relationship - and one that could potentially make or break it.
You never get a second chance at a first impression, so it's usually wise to be on your best behaviour to begin with as failing to get the nod of approval from your partner's loved ones can make things very tricky moving forward.
And one man learned that lesson the hard way when he arrived at the house of his girlfriend's dad and made a cheeky remark - before his face dropped in terror when he spotted the doorbell camera.
TikTok user Corighteous uploaded the painfully awkward clip, captioning it 'When you realise her dad has a doorbell cam', and it's racked up more than 2.4 million views as viewers experienced second-hand embarrassment just watching it.
The clip, taken on the camera which starts recording automatically when it detects movement outside the front of the home, shows the man in a cap and orange jumper walking up to the front door while on a phone call.
He can be heard saying: "Alright, well, yeah, I gotta go meet this d***head so", before he instantly realises his huge blunder by looking directly into the camera, mumbling "Uhhh god damn it" and making a swift move to get out of its line of sight.
Hundreds of viewers took to the comments to offer their opinions, although it might not have been what the man wanted to hear, as one wrote: "I hope you just turned around and went home because that was it for dad, I can promise you that."
A second said: "My dad would greet him by pumping his shotgun."
A third warned: "Dad digging a hole out back already."
And another added: "OMG you'd be single SO fast if this were me. Luckily my guy has respect."
Have you ever made a similar mistake? Let us know in the comments.
