Mum snaps selfie in wrong dorm room bed

A MOTHER tried to surprise her daughter at university by sneaking into her room, but things didn’t quite work out the way she’d planned.

This mum’s college surprise didn’t quite go to plan.

A MOTHER tried to surprise her daughter at university by sneaking into her student accommodation, but wound up breaking into the wrong room and snapping a selfie on a stranger’s bed — completely mortifying her Gen Y offspring.

😂😂😂😂 momma pilling at it again. pic.twitter.com/KzPINUYeNR

— McKenna Pilling (@kennapilling) May 6, 2016

Deanna Pilling travelled from her New York home to Utah State University last week to pick up 18-year-old McKenna, who had just completed her first year at the school.

But instead of telling her daughter she had arrived, Pilling decided to give the teen a surprise.

Pilling, 57, snapped a picture of herself sprawled out on the bed and sent her daughter a text that read: “Look where I am! Where are you?”

McKenna wrote back: “Where’s that?? I’m in my dorm. Please tell me you’re not in someone else’s dorm.”

Her embarrassed mother bolted from the room, telling her daughter through text, “I am in the wrong dorm omg.”

McKenna tweeted a screenshot of the failed surprise to her Twitter followers with a few laughing emojis and the caption, “Momma Pilling at it again.”

Since she posted it last Thursday, the tweet has been liked more than 25,800 times and retweeted 11,400 times.

“Every time I refresh my feed more retweets/favourites pop up, and now all my mum has to say is, ‘I wish I would’ve taken a better picture,’” McKenna told Buzzfeed News.

This story was originally published on The New York Post and was reproduced here permission.