Tell me your text message horror stories

What a bizarre thing to say about kids. Gross!

Ooooh mine is a doozy. I was giving a colleague lifts to work as she didn’t drive - she would get the overground to near my house, I’d pick her up en route, and then I’d drive us both to work (never charged her for travel as it was on my etc). Anyway, she was ALWAYS late, always always, it would drive me insane and was beginning to be a problem at work. One day, when she was again late, I wrote an absolutely savage message about her to my husband, saying how awful a selfish she was, how much of a misery she made my life, I hated her and so on. Well of course, I sent it to her. The worst part is though, the second I pressed send she (laughingly) opened my car door, and sat down next to me, as her phone pinged WITH MY MESSAGE. Yes, I had to sit next to her and watch her read the message. It was a silent drive to work that day…

12 years later and I still want to vomit with I think about it 🤣

I'm one of a group of three at work who all have the same job role. We have our own work streams but pull together on big projects, to share best practice bla bla. One of my colleagues is brilliant...the other, however, is totally and embarrassingly incompetent. Two of us have been cleaning up her messes, correcting her emails and misinformation for about two years. Totally ridiculous situation and management are aware but on it goes. But she is HIGHLY sensitive and kicks off and raises grievances at the smallest slight. We have to be very careful every time we give her feedback or correct something.

Anyway. A few months ago she was blabbering on in the department teams group - about 25 people. Answering someone's question in detail, in our area of specialty, lots of back and forth and she was totally incorrect in every sentence, telling people to take completely wrong actions.

Other colleague messages me privately 'OMG. Are you reading? What shall we do? Bit awkward!' I catch up then replied 'For goodness sake. She's making a total fool of herself. I don't understand how she can't know this by now. We'll have to say something though, can't let people do what she's saying! l'll message Bob now (big boss), will probably be better coming from him with all those people in there reading'.

Yeah. Sent it to the main department group, not privately back to my colleague. And our Teams has no edit or delete function.

It was fucking awful 😖 Yes, she raised a grievance. There were meetings and discussions. She actually came out of it much worse in the end because she totally blew her top, wanted my head on a block and would not accept an apology or let it go. But Christ I was mortified.

Your name has bought back so many memories. I had to listen to that song on Spotify right away!. Thank you ❤️

I'm going back a very long time ago,but I once sent my ex (who was a massive cocklodger but i was madly in love at the time) a saucy text as I was seeing him later that evening

It included the words 'blow job' 'g-spot' 'pussy' 'cock' and 'hard'

Annnddd sent it to my father

Who doesn't do texts (combination of refusing to wear glasses and being tech phobic-hes just about got to grips with the mircowave) so gave it to my brother to read to him...

His surname didn’t begin with H did it?🤔

I knew a Micro Dom a few years ago 😀

I often get in trouble thinking I'm in a private conversation with my sister when we're actually in the family group chat. I was living at home with my parents during lockdown and literally had to sneak out to go on a (rather irresponsible) series of dates. Years later, my sister shared a meme about Tory lockdown parties and I replied with a comment about how "at that point I was probably snogging Dan in a field."
Much frantic deleting followed and I'm still praying my folks never saw it!

My DH foolishly left our (then) toddler with his unlocked phone to play with. She managed to text his boss a string of jumbled letters, part of which had autocorrected to the word “wanker”. Thankfully the boss was not a wanker, assumed, from all the extra letters, that it was a pocket dial, and found it funny once given an explanation.

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 😳

You should disabuse him of that!

My ex once left his underwear in my bed so I texted him at work to tell him all about what I was doing with his pants. Only I actually texted my sister.....😱😱😱

Ha ha ha 😂

In the old days of Nokia phones a friend once sent her boyfriend Dan a message saying 'I'm on my way round to give you a blow job'. Except she sent it to 'Dad'... who was a vicar.

I'll never forget the look of abject panic.

Ha ha ha ha 😂

This is outing to my friends - but about twenty years ago when I was young and single I went out on a night out with work, got bladdered, and lost my keys. I texted my flatmate at the time saying I was really pissed, had lost my keys and he'd have to let me in. Unfortunately I sent it to a load of random people in my phone back including my boss, on his work phone - had no idea. At that time our work voicemail had a facility where it read out texts to you. Next morning I turned up to work a bit bleary eyed, my boss came in and started listening to his messages, said 'oh I've got this weird message' and played it - it was a robotic sat nav type voice reading out my text message. I was cringing into the floor but he was crying laughing (as was everyone else!)

😱😂😱😂😱

I mean, that’s just bloody weird. I hope somebody called you out on that

Accidentally sent a colleague a text meant for my DP with details of the threesome we were busy organising.

I have form for this
Send text to exH in the middle of our split which was meant for a colleague I'd drunkenly shagged. Managed to pass it off as my mates oissing about.
Sent message in works chat slagging off colleague
Sent message to whole department calling the work we'd been given as a load of crap.

I'm paranoid what I text/type email now

Not text message but dh has been NC with his dm for 4 months.
We were in the car the other day and I decided to ring my mum,I was driving.
Told my car to "ring mum" and after a while his dm answered.It had connected to dh phone! Instead of mine.
I hung up and she didn't ring back so hopefully she thinks it was a pocket dial.

Some of these posts would be even better if the posters said what happened after the texts were read.

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'.

A long time ago, I was regularly working in the office till late in the evening, as was a man from another department, and whoever was first to leave would say don’t work too late to the other.

One evening we were both working very late: I was just about to go on holiday and had loads to do. He left first and said he had to get home to see his wife, who was also called Catname.

When I left, I sent him a text message saying “Elvis has left the building” and signed it Catname as I didn’t think he had my number in his phone.

He read the message and thought it was his wife leaving him 😳

Not a wrong person but an auto correct.. My boss sent me a picture of himself in his new suit, I replied 'You look amazing when you wear a shit'!