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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!

OP posts:
wheelywheelynice · 23/10/2024 23:35

whoami24601 · 22/10/2024 20:11

I had a Nokia years ago (pre smartphones) that could recall rest messages for about 10 seconds after you pressed send. That feature saved me more than once! Never understood why it didn't become a thing 🤔

Just last week I got a text off the school mobile saying that after-school club was cancelled for the last week of term. Forwarded it to DH and then followed up with 'For fucks sake'. Only somehow I'd gone back to the original message so sent that to school instead 😳

There's an app called Chomp that does that

ParrotsAteThemAll · 23/10/2024 23:20

Friend text asking what I was up to, I replied “I’m sat in a carcass”

Couldn’t understand her disgust until i realised it should’ve been CARWASH!! Bloody predictive text!

maddening · 23/10/2024 23:05

I received a text from a stranger asking me to meet her at the family planning clinic - meant for her boyfriend

Nightjar33 · 23/10/2024 22:51

I accidentally included my boss in a text to a colleague.
she constantly left work early and used the company car for personal use, never putting fuel in it. We were bitching about it
I felt sick as soon as I realised.
she messaged back saying great to know what everyone thinks of me 😳

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

Wherewhatnow · 23/10/2024 22:33

spiderlight · 22/10/2024 19:07

I'd had a colonoscopy for which I had had to fast and had been pumped full of gas to inflate my bowel. A close friend texted me to ask whether it was done and I was home, and I replied, truthfully, 'All done - just waiting in the pharmacy, trying not to fart'.

I then got a text from a new school-mum friend (DS had started Reception about a week before) saying she'd see me at home-time to sort out a day for DS to go and play with her son after school. I replied that I wouldn't be there that day, as I'd just done a 24-hour fast and I was feeling a bit wobbly. My phone, remembering the previous text, helpfully autocorrected '24-hour fast' to '24-hour fart' - and no, I didn't spot this until after I'd hit 'send'.

This one made me cry with laughter!

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.

GoldenLegend · 23/10/2024 22:03

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.

That's what they call 'stop digging'.

Properjob · 23/10/2024 21:54

I sent a message asking my new lover to get us some lubrication 'because you know I'm so sensitive!!!' Except I sent it to my (thankfully small) group of my political party...aaaargh!!

Bewareofthisonetoo · 23/10/2024 21:43

Massively grateful to the OP for this - have laughed at all if these!!! After an awful week this has really cheered my up -thanks!!!!!!

Letmehaveabloodyusernameplease · 23/10/2024 21:40

God knows how but I once managed to send a GIF to my son's driving instructor from my back pocket.

Bewareofthisonetoo · 23/10/2024 21:26

PumaKinPie · 23/10/2024 18:35

😂😂😂
I'm willing to bet that your hubby is the only man in history to have been shaken awake at 4am to delete his Grandad's knob pic.

😂😂😂😂😂

Notimeforaname · 23/10/2024 21:22

Years ago when he was young and stupid, my best friend was in trouble at work.

A manager was treating him like shit (we suspected homophobia) one day friend had enough and told this manager what he thought of them and he wasn't shy about it.

Friend was pulled in and they started investigating for gross misconduct.

During the week they were deciding his fate, he accidentally text one of the managers saying "Just rolled another beautiful spliff and I'm stoned off my head, lovely times, fuck those bitches at work" 🤣🤣🤣
Oh course he got fired.

Boobygravy · 23/10/2024 21:14

My db rang a friend from a land-line whilst my dsis was staying with him.
The friend didn't answer.
Db then told my dsis in detail the problems his friend and friends dp were having in their relationship and told dsis what issues he thought they should be addressing.
He used up the whole of their answering machine which he realised when it beeped and at that moment knew he hadn't put the receiver back properly.
The friendship never recovered.

Cloakanddaggercraving · 23/10/2024 21:09

Not quite the same but I once picked up a voicemail from a manager who was working from home.

He called me and I was on the other line so it went to voicemail, but he didn’t hang up properly and I then heard him talking to another man, they were talking about fisting and how hard he gets when his nipples were played with and is strangled!! He then realised the call wasn’t disconnected but he didn’t know if any of the conversation had been picked up.

He called me again and I could tell it was to check whether I’d heard. I never let on that I’d heard the whole conversation!

Sakuem · 23/10/2024 20:54

clarepetal · 22/10/2024 18:42

I work as a teaching assistant, and we have a department WhatsApp group. Xmas Eve last year, someone sent a message saying 'Happy Xmas and hope the kids are enjoying it.' I read it quickly, thinking it was a school mum. I replied 'happy Xmas to you, and it won't be long before the kids are all wanking and not bothered about xmas'. I then finished up by saying afterwards 'To be fair, it's usually me who is cracking one out,'.
This was I thought a joke to a close school friend about wanking.
If took me a few hours to realise I had cross referenced to my work messages when I had no reply. I deleted and apologised.
My boss never said anything to me, so I don't know how many people actually read it (about 40 in the department) but I got a few giggles when we went back after Xmas hols.
Not my best moment.

You could've perhaps blamed it on autocorrect and say that you'd meant to type " Not long til the kids are all working" , like they grow up so fast 😂

Silvernutmeg70 · 23/10/2024 20:53

This thread is hilarious, I'm crying laughing. Just what I needed, thank you! 😊

Trapunt0 · 23/10/2024 20:32

Back in the day of using my own laptop in the classroom (didn't have a work one then, few did, practices were different, wouldn't happen now).
I'd gone up to bed with glass and laptop, o/h 2 floors down watching TV, communication over (probably) msn.
The next day I'm setting up my afternoon lesson during the tail end of form time
Data projector, check
Power all in, check
Serial port connected, check....
Then a bored member of my form starts reading the board, projected from my frozen, lazy shut-down the night before and I hear.....
"More vino sausage??" across the class
Screen was frozen and unresponsive and I was yanking out serial leads in a panic, I couldn't remember where the rest of the conversation had gone.
In praise of slow readers!!

MirandaJH · 23/10/2024 20:04

My husband once sent a joke text to one of our close guy friends- where he sent like an ott sickly sweet love letter text to him (it was an ongoing inside joke). Only to discover days later he’d sent it to the guy fitting our new kitchen.

I was also once on the receiving end of a text about me. Where a guy I was seeing messaged his friend (or that’s what he thought) saying he was talking to his ex again and was pretending to be into me because he didn’t want to hurt me. And that he realised I’d bought a PS3 football game just to impress him. 😳

Timebomb1 · 23/10/2024 20:04

BeADinosaur · 22/10/2024 17:36

That's actually very sweet!

Once messaged my line manager saying something like 'Just leaving now, can't wait to see you! Love you xx'

It may have been slightly more soppy/mushy then my memory allows me to remember.

He text back almost immediately with 'I hope to fuck that wasn't meant for me!'

I love your line managers response 🤣🤣

Happywifehappylife18 · 23/10/2024 20:03

Long story short. I have two sisters one called Janet and one called Alice. Alice had a daughter and called her Janet after my sister. So a niece and sister with the same name. Janet’s daughters name is Amelia.

amelia now in her 20’ messages me that she likes eating p###y. She has autism and a bit of a boundary issue and clearly did not think this was inappropriate. Knowing her I found it rather funny and went to text my nice Janet about it and how I should respond. Well…. I messaged amelias mum Janet and didn’t realise until a few hours later while in a meeting at work.

let’s just say it was a bit awkward for a while.

I still find it hilarious. And I have now made sure their names show Janet sister and Janet niece.

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Fontofallknowledge23 · 23/10/2024 19:50

I was slagging off my mate to my other mutual mate. Anyway called him a complete dick and probably everything under the son including a spoilt mummy’s boy. I sent it to him. I’ve also had another mate do similar to me 🤣🤣🤣.

wellington77 · 23/10/2024 19:44

19 years old at uni, I started sexting late at night this guy who was my fuck buddy. Let’s call him “ Dave” it was all going well, until one text came back saying “ im sooo going to blackmail you, unless you want mum to find out!” Dave had the same name as my 16 year old brother 😭😭😭

girlmeetsboy · 23/10/2024 19:43

I had text my husband about someone calling me the C word in a carpark about a space so of course predictive text remembered that, My really good friend had been in hospital following a hysterectomy but her Aunt has also been really ill, you can imagine the message she received when I meant to text 'Hows your Aunt' 🤣😁🤯She replied 'Urm sore thanks''!!!!

lucywrightbooth · 23/10/2024 19:42

Newly single last year i was messaging a police officer, and one night he sent me a voice note saying he was at work but wished he was with me, but that would mean leaving work early, taking an few days off work and getting a plane to Greece! I was unfortunately not in Greece, so realised he'd meant it for someone else he was obviously chatting to! I found it quite amusing, and just replied that I wished I was in Greece! He just glossed over it and said, yes that would be nice. The next morning I was telling the girls at work in our morning meeting, and they were all saying that he sounds like a narcissist, all policemen are narcissists and arrogant! One of them said he looks like Wayne Couzens! Anyway a bit later i was on my break and went to send him a message. Realised I had accidentally sent him a voice note of the whole conversation!!!!! He had read it but I deleted as soon as I realised, then he messaged me saying, too late I've already listened to it!!! I have no idea how I managed to do that!!! To be fair, I didn't say anything mean or horrible, but I never heard from him again!!!