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PumpkinSpicedLatte · 22/10/2024 15:47

please make me feel less sick by sharing your horror stories of sending messages to the person you’re talking about/screenshots. Bonus points if it’s worked related!

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DemiSec9 · 24/10/2024 19:37

I’m still amazed I wasn’t sacked.

sandrapinchedmysandwich · 24/10/2024 18:35

DemiSec9 · 24/10/2024 17:55

During lockdown I was doing pretty much non-stop Zoom meetings. It was towards the end of the day and my boyfriend, who I’d not been able to see for months popped up on WhatsApp and said he missed me. I replied, “I’m just in a boring meeting but I’d rather be fucking you.”

I was sharing my screen.

my boss said, “I don’t think we need to see that.”

Still can’t bear to think about it.

Hahahaha 🤣 🤣 🤣

whoscoatsthatjacket2012 · 24/10/2024 18:10

DemiSec9 · 24/10/2024 17:55

During lockdown I was doing pretty much non-stop Zoom meetings. It was towards the end of the day and my boyfriend, who I’d not been able to see for months popped up on WhatsApp and said he missed me. I replied, “I’m just in a boring meeting but I’d rather be fucking you.”

I was sharing my screen.

my boss said, “I don’t think we need to see that.”

Still can’t bear to think about it.

Oh my god I'm dying for you

DemiSec9 · 24/10/2024 17:55

During lockdown I was doing pretty much non-stop Zoom meetings. It was towards the end of the day and my boyfriend, who I’d not been able to see for months popped up on WhatsApp and said he missed me. I replied, “I’m just in a boring meeting but I’d rather be fucking you.”

I was sharing my screen.

my boss said, “I don’t think we need to see that.”

Still can’t bear to think about it.

Manchesterbythesea · 24/10/2024 16:39

My sil sent a message meant for her mother to her au-pair. The message was a long bitch about the au-pair and how she was getting the sack. I was scarlet for her when she told me but I also couldn’t stop laughing.

5475878237NC · 24/10/2024 16:32

NeverEnoughPants · 24/10/2024 16:16

Which, to be fair, does suggest some very young childbearing, given that if everyone was 16 when they had their first child, he would have to be 80 to be a great great grandfather

I thought the same and assumed they were all having babies at c16.

NeverEnoughPants · 24/10/2024 16:16

NeverEnoughPants · 24/10/2024 16:14

Based on the post, he's in his seventies.

Which, to be fair, does suggest some very young childbearing, given that if everyone was 16 when they had their first child, he would have to be 80 to be a great great grandfather

NeverEnoughPants · 24/10/2024 16:14

Mayana1 · 24/10/2024 15:01

Just to say wow, at what age you all had children in your family, so there is still a great great grandad around? He must be very very elderly now!

Based on the post, he's in his seventies.

Mayana1 · 24/10/2024 15:01

ErectionSection · 22/10/2024 21:14

We have an extended family WhatsApp group for baby photos - all the children are now married and having their own children, so it's a good way for all the generations to be able to see the grandkids, great grandkids and great great grandkids grow.

I blearily looked at my phone for the time in the early hours and noticed a new picture alert in one of the baby chats. I opened it to see a very large, very angry looking penis. The surroundings of the picture (and the footwear) made it immediately apparent that this was Great Great Grandad's surprisingly magnificent, septuagenarian willy.

Fortunately DH is an admin so I shook him awake, handed him his phone and said he better hurry up and delete Grandad's knob before everyone saw it. Fortunately there weren't any other group members looking at it at 4am so it was swiftly deleted and his dignity was spared. They never really grow out of playing with their genitals do they?

Just to say wow, at what age you all had children in your family, so there is still a great great grandad around? He must be very very elderly now!

foresthump · 24/10/2024 12:31

A friend recently texted me my own news

I ignored it

It wasnt nasty but made me wonder who it was meant for snd why are they sharing my news in that way?

TigerRag · 24/10/2024 12:09

A friend once text his partner telling her he was on top of Laura Bridge. Auto correct had changed Laira Bridge (an area in Plymouth) to Laura

Firebird83 · 24/10/2024 11:49

Once as a teenager I got an explicit text from my dad that was meant for my mum, saying what he was going to do to her. Mortifying 😭😭😂

HectorPlasm · 24/10/2024 11:15

AlexaSetATimer · 23/10/2024 18:58

Oops.
Did she LTB Grin

Still together!

DoraSpenlow · 24/10/2024 10:59

butterflyflutterby123 · 23/10/2024 00:22

Friend texted me upset about her weight and saying she looks fat. My initial ‘noo’ got autocorrected to ‘moo’

Standing the very long queue at the Co-op just now waiting to pay for my four pints of semi-skimmed and remembered this post. Started really laughing out loud. Tears running down my face, the lot. Just couldn't stop. Several people asking me if I'm ok which kept starting me off again. Luckily I got served before the men in white coats arrived. Had to walk back to the car still in fits of giggles getting some very strange looks.

Funny how some simple things can really set you off. Think I will have to avoid the Co-op for a while.

Thanks @butterflyflutterby123 can't remember the last time I have laughed so much.

KimberleyClark · 24/10/2024 09:24

Wherewhatnow · 23/10/2024 22:33

This one made me cry with laughter!

Me too. Not surprising to feel a bit wobbly after a 24 hour fart.

Rockchick76 · 24/10/2024 09:21

I haven't read all these yet but I HAVE to post. A colleague in my former company was having an affair with a very attractive married older woman. We had a company email that started with 'All <company name>', and her name was Alison. He emailed her to ask her if she was wearing her lacy knickers..... It went to the entire company. It became a legendary story there.

Gardengirl108 · 24/10/2024 08:31

Texted Dad’s neighbour yesterday to ask her politely to back off getting involved in his business which is confusing him (has dementia) and making it very difficult to sort his care. Asked AI/ChatGTP to help with the wording as I didn’t want to be too heavy handed or rude. Managed to text the neighbour the entire AI conversation instead of my carefully worded text 😱 Then to make matters worse, when trying to delete the message, I deleted the message thread! DH reminded me it still might show on my iPad so I managed to edit the message there (couldn’t delete it) - I’m sure she saw it. My only excuse is that I have a heavy cold, feeling rubbish and should be nowhere near anything that requires a functioning brain. Plus my polite edited message hasn’t landed the way I’d hoped because from her reply she still doesn’t seem to understand what I’m getting at 😬

Teentrauma · 24/10/2024 07:22

I once read out a text sent to me by my boss to a colleague that I had assumed was an instruction to pass on to her when in fact they were slagging her off! In my defence, it was badly written, littered with typos and I read it quickly while standing in front of said colleagues desk. We simultaneously realised what it actually meant as the words tumbled out of my mouth. Mortifying for all concerned!

NeverEnoughPants · 24/10/2024 06:29

WillimNot · 23/10/2024 22:38

Sent a message to a lady who wants to play at my bar, thinking I was texting my DD.
"Your dad is an utter bellend and I'm knackered, hungry and dying for a pee. There's a group in who are a pain in the arse as well. Pray for me because Im proper fucked off."

She was very sweet about it and still wants to play here

Mortified

If I had got that message, I would DEFINITELY want to play at your bar 😂

Kittynoodle · 24/10/2024 05:28

butterflyflutterby123 · 23/10/2024 00:22

Friend texted me upset about her weight and saying she looks fat. My initial ‘noo’ got autocorrected to ‘moo’

😂😂😂😂😂

ChampagneLassie · 24/10/2024 03:08

Tiredforfive45 · 22/10/2024 18:11

The day after I found out I was pregnant with our first, I sent a text to my husband at work, “Good morning Daddy ❤️.”

Accidentally sent it to a colleague.
Panicked.

”sorry. That was for my husband.”
”sometimes I just call him Daddy.”

Panicked more.

“Not in a sex way!”
”hahahahahahahahaha”
”Just because of the cat.”

Mortifying, honestly. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

She was lovely about it and once I announced my pregnancy she said she had figured as much but I still re-live it and cringe.

This is brilliant 🤣

Gingercatlover · 24/10/2024 01:59

I sent a lovey dovey text meant for husband with a photo to my carpet fitter, cringe.

Luckily he said he had a good chuckle about it!

Lavenderblossoms · 24/10/2024 01:48

Champers66 · 23/10/2024 22:18

I was showing my then BF now DH, how if you say to Siri ‘text **’ it sends a text to them. So I said ‘text George’ (husbands name) then Siri says ‘shall I text uncle George’ before I had a chance to say NO! My DH shouts ‘fuck the pussy!’ And it sends a text to my UNCLE saying just that.

worst part is the day before I had actually text my dad asking for my uncles number so I could message him about something else and before I could .. this happened.

So my uncle then rang my DAD and asked if I was OK. Haha my god I could die thinking about this again.

Dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

WileyCyrus · 24/10/2024 01:19

My DP received a funny one…he had accidentally bumped someone’s car when driving on ice one morning, left his number and the guy got in touch to swap insurance details etc.

A few days later he received a dramatic text from the guy that said “What do you want me to do? I FUCKING LOVE YOU, ok?” Immediately followed by “Wrong number”

We had a good laugh at that one, I’ve always wondered about what the context could’ve been 😂

Ohnobackagain · 23/10/2024 23:50

OMG @girlmeetsboy 😂😂😂