Phew, close call!

[ParmaViolet44]

Was texting a mum from DS's school yesterday to arrange a play date. She's pleasant but seems quite serious and strait-laced, I haven't got to know her too well just yet.

Just as I was about to hit send at the end of my first message I realised my phone was auto-correcting her son's first name to "asshole". The name is not a million miles away in terms of letters but still a bloody leap!

I was having cold sweats imagining if I'd sent a message to this lady I don't know that well and asking if "asshole is ok with pasta for tea"
I honed my spell-checking to new levels at work that day making sure nothing was being changed in emails/texts!

Anyone else ever had a close shave that still makes their tummy wobble when they think about it!?

I once worked at a youth project and we woukd have insurance week when we would give out free condoms. At a trustees and managers meeting I was reporting on numbers attending ge pronect.. I said 'of course on condom days the boys all come'
There was sniggers all round and when realised what I'd said I froze for a second burst out laughing and said 'oh sh*t did i really just say that!' Which brought the room to hysterical laughter. Fortunately they were a good bunch. I still cringe when I think about it 😖

Insurance!? Should say one day a week...auto correct strikes again 🤣

I once called a friend's son Anus in a text (instead of Angus). Damn autocorrect!

Accidentally text a friend recently and my phone autocorrected her newborn DSs name to kebab. Wouldn't be so bad but I was trying to cheer her up after some family members had ridiculed the name choice

Also accidentally added this > 🧡 emoji to a serious text to a very straight-laced married-- man from hobby. So embarrassing.

I have to use the word 'count' quite a lot on emails at work.

I've had some very close shaves.....

Ds2 is Wilf..... People often message and ask how Wolf or Wild is..... 😂

I nearly texted 150 teenagers due to go on a school trip reminding them to "bring some foof to eat on the coach."

Still makes me go hot and cold.

I was working in an office years ago and had to send an email to a colleague about a BME (black minority ethnic) group. My colleage happened to be an Asian lady.

Not long later, I hear my boss burst out laughing. She called me into her office and there stands the colleague I had just emailed and my line manager. Both of them were in hysterics. I asked if there was a problem and was told that my email had said BMW group, and not BME. I didn't understand why a simple typo could cause such hilarity and was informated BMW means "black man's willy". I wanted the floor to swallow me up that instant. I never lived it down during my time there. I'm just relieved my colleague wasn't offended!

Asshole! That is amazing

A pain in the arse manager at work once sent an absolute shitogram and added on the bottom “sorry for the incontinence”

My son once texted he had had an 'arab and spawn' sandwich (crab and prawn).

In a typing exam, well before the days of autocorrect or even computers, so no way of quickly correcting it even if I had seen it.

The man left his 'fucksack' on the floor

I still passed

My friend once texted me after a trying day with little kids that she was away to lick herself in the bathroom. She obviously meant lock

Invited a friend over for a coffee....auto correct changed 'pop in for a coffee' to 'poo in for a coffee' ....on the back of having some romantic text exchanges with DH about the consistency of ddog's poop after a few bouts of the doggy trots!!

Working as a nurse, I phoned a Dr once to come see an elderly gentleman who seriously resembles Willy Wonka from Charlie and the chocolate factory. Don't know what came over me but when Dr asked which of 3 men it was he had to see, I said (in full earshot of the gentleman's shocked 😲 family): its the gentleman who looks like Willie Wanker... Still dying when I think about it now...

I once nearly sent a work email several senior people at The County Council headed "Dear Cunty".

It was an email telling them very precisely why I wasn't going to do what they wanted me to do, so VERY lucky I caught that one in time to change it!