Tell me your text message horror stories

Oh, no!

Did she know that he'd sent it? That probably terrified her, actually, as she would probably have assumed that it was somehow done by a filthy perv getting his kicks, who could have been outside/near, for all she knew.

That was one big thing about landlines: they were usually shared by/answered by more than one person, unless you lived alone and never had anybody visiting - it's quite a modern thing whereby everybody has a phone that (usually) only they use.

More of an autocorrect/proof reading issue but my teen son sent me 'give me sex' instead of 'give me a sec' he was mortified 😆

New job, on a Teams call with my colleagues and trying to make a good first impression. My Internet connection wasn't great and I dropped off the call and had to rejoin. People were talking so I wrote a message in the chat to say 'sorry I disappeared then, I just got licked out'. Noticed immediately and edited to 'kicked out', but the hoots of laughter coming through my headphones told me I was too late.

Not a text, but about 20 years ago my boyfriend discovered that you could send a text to a landline, the phone would then ring & an automated voice would read the message to you.
One day when I was at work he texted my mobile asking if I’d got his landline text. He didn’t realise I was at work & my mother was at my house childminding, so my mother had answered my phone to be told by the BT voice ‘you do great blow-jobs & I’m going to fuck you from behind’. I was almost to embarrassed to look at her when I got home.

This one really tickled me 😂

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This is hilarious! Wish I could remember my bloopers 🤣🤣

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My cat is staring at me like 🤔as I laugh my arse off here. These are amazing

😂Ohhhhhh you didn't! I love this

I can read and comment if I like. That's my opinion it's a vile thing to text and implies that the person doing the texting is perfect themselves and is putting someone else down.
Definitely not fun. Vile, tactless, nasty.
You won't change my opinion.

Not a text message, but a phone call. This was back in the late 90's, so just as cars in phones were becoming more common.

My then DP was out for the day with his brother (I'll use IL references even though no-one was married because it's easier). They'd had to go a long way for some reason - can't remember why - but it was quite a big thing and they'd been out all day, driving a long distance.

My SIL (BIL's DP) did NOT get on with her in laws (my DP's parents) and they were very much low, almost no contact as a result of MIL's interfering.

[Backstory: MIL was fine with me, but BIL was her "baby boy" and SIL was a fair bit older than him so was v difficult for MIL to accept.]

They were much later back than anticipated, so MIL, worrying, called me to find out if I'd heard from them. In that call she said "Can you believe it? Julie^ called me to see if I'd heard from them!" She sounded delighted that perhaps they were starting to turn a corner and get on.

So when my DP calls me to give an update on their journey, I say "Oh - your Mum called. Guess what?? Julie called her!"

My DP "errrr.... ha ha.... John^ (BIL) is laughing at that!"

Yup - I'd forgotten that this new fangled thing called hands free had been invented and I'd just gossiped about my SIL, right in front of my BIL!

In the grand scheme of things it wasn't anything bad, thank god, but 19 year old me wanted the ground to open up and swallow me!

Still makes me cringe to this day when I think about it.

^name changed!

The thread is about doing something embarrassing not nasty.

@PrincessHoneysuckle
No sorry not me!
Not sure whether it's better or worse that it hasn't only happened to me 😂

I was working away from home for a couple of weeks, staying in the same hotel as a painfully shy work colleague. It was quite close to where a friend of mine lived, so went to stay with her for the weekend. Drunk on the Sat night I sent a text to a man I'd been flirting with at a house party: "so are you coming back to Sophie's house for sex, or what?"

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I sent it to my work colleague
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Have you done a thread before about this? It's identical to one from a good while back

Not exactly a text message faux pas, but I was once doing a temp job and the person sitting opposite me was a real hottie. Heard him on the phone chasing an internet order that hadn't arrived and he had to read out his address. Nosey little me thought I'd type it into google maps and check it out later, I don't know why, you know when you have a crush and anything about them is interesting 🙈Unfortunately for me, my fat fingers must have pressed go as my phone decided to blurt out at full volume 'directions to [insert his address here]' for the whole office to hear. Still mortified thinking about it.

Hahaha actually cried laughing reading this 😂😂😂

Best!!!!!😂😂😂

Oh come on. There is much worse on here. Perhaps you should avoid threads like this if you want to be all cats bum mouth about things

My husband's best man texted me the day after our wedding something like this:

"You're a very sexy girl and you were very horny last night!"

He is a good friend and endearingly odd so my husband and I were both just wondering if this was one of his jokes or something, until we heard he had got off with another one of my friends after the wedding and the message was meant for her! 😂

It was on a phone. With autocorrect. What on earth does the layout of a keyboard have to do with it? That's not how autocorrect works.

Was simultaneously in a work chat (polite & harmless, mostly people arranging lifts or shift swaps) & a scurrilous bitchfest with a workmate.

We all got an email summoning us to a Very Important Briefing next day.

'Wonder what that's all about?' texts workmate.

'oh it'll be so we can all have "Property of Bastardcorp" tattooed on our arses' I reply.

Of course I didn't notice that she'd asked on the Bastardcorp chat, not on our private chat.

CEO Big Bastard thought it was quite funny, luckily, although he did advise me not to ever contribute to the staff suggestion box...😬

Maybe that's a word that Hatty commonly ends many of her messages with, and the phone has 'learned'?!

That said, phones sometimes do have very strange glitches to their algorithms. I had an old Windows phone and the very first time I typed the word 'functioning', it offered as the potential next word "well', "OK" and "vagina" ?!?!?!?!