Tell me your horror stories of wrongly sent/forwarded messages to help me cope.

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I'm dying of cringe here. I feel so tense.I didn't even do the crime but I've got palpitations here.

My mate just sent our Cookery WhatsApp group a photo of her boyfriend proposing to her. Another member of the WhatsApp group forwarded the photo to a different WhatsApp group, let's say a Jigsaw WhatsApp group, with a not-so-complimentary message.

Unbeknownst to the forwarder, the newly engaged mate is also in the Jigsaw WhatsApp group.

The Jigsaw WhatsApp group is very quiet. Eerily quiet.

Oh my god. My actual heart.

[WhatsApp groups aren't actually Cookery and Jigsaws - invented to protect the identities of those involved].

I don't have anything to relate this experience to. The worst it got for me was when I once text my boss a picture intended for DP.

DP was, say, Dave in my contact list and my boss was, say, Davey.
The picture was of a terrible, terrible, non-risen, beige stodge-fest of a cake I'd made on my day off with the accompanying message "I'm a shit head".

After I'd reassured my boss I wasn't having a breakdown (just bad a baking), it was all fine. I changed DP's name in my contact list very soon after.

@VenusClapTrap I absolutely love your story. (And I too want to know how the speed dating went?)😂😂😂

One of my best friend once sent me a message aimed at another friend of hers which started with "If it makes you feel better, Darkshade..." Which went on to describe a personal situation only she knew. She messaged me straight away and said she was just trying to make her other friend feel better but I don't tell her things anymore.

I once accidentally dialled a friend while having sex!! I have been paranoid of phones by me during sex ever since. She rang me back and straight up asked me, I told her she was mistaken, doubt she believed me.

Well I forwarded an email to my cousin lamenting the twattiness of my BIL to his wife, my sister. She didn’t speak to me for about 6 months and our relationship has never completely recovered.

Not quite the same but I messaged a dear family friend:

Sorry not to have got back to you yesterday, I was in bed all day with a Nigerian.

Autocorrect for migraine. Problem is she’s 85 doesn’t have a mobile, has no idea what autocorrect is - so there was really no explaining it. (How the fuck do you get Nigerian from migraine anyway!)

I have done similar to this- colleague emailed me asking a group of colleagues to do something they should have been doing, instead of emailed work bestie to bitch about it I emailed original colleague. I will never forget how sick I felt when I realised my mistake and emailed colleague apologizing for the way I phrased it, but reiterating that it wasn’t my role to compile this information.

They were surprisingly gracious about it, and refrained from asking colleagues to do their work from that day forward. I still can’t look them straight in the eye when I think about it though!

Not me, but my boss. Forwarded a webinar recording to me, with the words "that's an hour of my life I'll never get back, but the last 5 minutes has a useful thing about X". Only he didn't, he replied to the organiser instead. It was 4 years ago and he's still mortified if it gets mentioned (which it does occasionally, because I like to wind him up).

I was going through a very nasty divorce and my ex husband had been a real nasty piece of work so I sent him an email to say fuck off and die you nasty cunt without putting his name on it.
However I accidentally sent it to my DSs headteacher as the emails were very similar. It was a Catholic school so she was not amused.

I made a pickle, using Facebook, it was ment to switch the messenger log in if your on the main facebook profile,.if that makes sens, but it went into my normally used profile, thankfully nothing rude, more a philosophical question.

only Read your OP. And tbh why do people chat shit about each other like this? Why couldn’t they just be happy for the person.

A few years back I had a general anaesthetic to remove my wisdom teeth. When I came round, I took a picture of my mouth as I wanted to see the bruising. I then sent the message to my partner (now DH) and thought nothing more of it. Bearing in mind, I'd just woken from a GA so was a bit woozy...

A few days later when back in work, I got pulled into the bosses office and he demanded to know "what on earth I was thinking sending him that picture?" And that he had to "let his wife go through his phone to prove he wasn't having an affair" I was mortified, shocked and ended up having a full blown panic attack in his office. He was furious. I'd never seen him angry as he was such a fun guy.

Needless to say, it was the final nail in MY coffin (I'd been off sick a few times (unfortunate timings and hospitalised etc), so I ended up resigning....

This just made me think… I worked in a company where our CEO had been visiting us for the day. He returned to the HQ and compiled a report on the MD of our office.

He hadn’t changed his printer configuration. He printed off a very derogatory report about our MD , you guessed it to our office! He tried to get the PA to get to the printer but our MD was at the printer. Our MD won a constructive dismissal claim!!!

Crikey, you must be fun at parties! A wee bit humourless, aren't you - and why feel the need to be gratuitously nasty in a lovely, friendly, light-hearted thread?

My advice: Get an actual life.

I’m not sure what this says about me, but this made me laugh so much

I've posted this one before but when my eldest was at primary we had a school parents email group (this was before WhatsApp etc). One of the mums always took the lead in collecting money to buy end of year presents for the teachers so they could have a spa voucher rather than 30 boxes of chocolates etc.

One year there was a young male teacher at school (usually all female teachers) and we were deliberating what to get him. My husband, thinking he was replying said "How about a Spearmint Rhino voucher for Mr Smith?". Then immediately realised that he'd sent it to the whole group and rang me in a panic.

I told him to style it out and send another short reply like haha sorry, me and wife having a joke, didn't mean to send to all. So he began to type "I'm sorry ..." but was on the train, someone jogged him and he sent prematurely. The partially typed "sorry" autocorrected so everyone got his follow up message which said "I'm dirty".

He was soooo embarrassed. There are nearly 10 years between our two kids and when youngest started one of his comments was at least there's unlikely to be anyone who remembers. But the first day he did drop off someone came up to him in the playground and said "I know you! You're Dirty Spearmint Rhrino Dad!"

Moons ago,I started a college course-hairdressing
i needed models to come in for a blow DRY-only I was wrangling kids into pjs and facing bedtime,so didn’t proof read
id only asked about 20 friends if they’d be up for a blow JOB and I’d be mucho grateful…
you wouldn’t believe the replies-my mates are gits

Sent condolences to a friend whose parner had died.
Then sent a massive blue thumbs up that took up most of the screen
Couldnt apologise enough and still cringe years later

When we were in the midst of divorce, my soon-to-be ex husband sent me a text meant for the OW. It thanked her for the wonderful weekend and ended with “I love you”. It was a mistake – he’s not the type to do that. It still made me feel like taking revenge on the bastard and her, too. I was caring for our children while he was dating. A decade later, I care not what he does.

Had a stroppy email from a bank contact. Forwarded it to a colleague saying that I had no idea why she had to be so rude when the rest of the banks were so lovely. Colleague replied agreeing. I then had to send an email to all my bank contacts including this persons boss. I accidentally forwarded the previous email thread to them all. Made it so much worse by trying and failing to recall the email a dozen times! Nothing was said but the bank changed the contact shortly afterwards!

This is one of those posts which advertises the importance of full stops 😂

'So we started sexting my son'

This one's my favourite so far, and the bar's been set high. I can't bear to try imagining how he must have felt when the awful realisation dawned!😯

Not really a horror story but I once text my Dad saying "love you babe" meant for my boyfriendat the time. Still makes me laugh now

years ago I was in the car with a friend and we had called her brother to see if he was home so we could visit. I’d been abroad so was catching up on her and her family’s news. She described her brother’s wife and wasn’t that flattering about her. Well, it had all been recorded in their answering machine. Her brother called her and teased her and kidded that he was going to let his wife hear it. I’ve been so careful since.

And teams/zoom meetings. Sometimes I go on other pages during a meeting and I have to make sure that I turn my camera off in case I make funny faces when someone is droning on.

This is wrong.

In group chats, there are never any ticks of any colour on anyone's messages, even when everyone has read them.

I've just gone through loads of different WhatsApp groups on my phone, some of which only have 3 people in them (including me), and there are no ticks at all on anyone else's messages.

@Iamclearlyamug and @a1poshpaws the speed dating was a laff. People don’t go speed dating any more do they? It was very of its time, getting usurped by online dating very shortly afterwards. Pity.

Awkward for you @Hollywolly1 😬