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.

I was with a friend once who said something incorrect where you just forget sense for a second. It was pretty funny but instead of of admitting she had gaffed, she doubled down and insisted the very not right stupid thing was right - which kind of made it funnier as it was a factual thing that she 100% knew that she gave the wrong answer to (think something along the lines of accidentally giving the wrong age for your child and then doubling down and insisting she is the wrong age!).

I was texting back and forth with her later and another friend and sent a message to other mutual friend about this saying Vicki had lost her marbles - and accidentally sent it to her instead.

The not so complimentary message was along the lines of "This is very basic/cringey"

The forwarder is really bad at social media and communication so I think she's sent the message, put her phone down and moved on which is why she hasn't realised/deleted

Nothing has been said in the Jigsaw group. But the ticks have gone blue. Everyone has seen it. I feel ill. I can't cope. This is too tense.

Your stories are making me feel better, so funny!

I haven’t but a company I worked for at the time had a colleague who didn’t want to return to working in the office after working from home during Covid, she ranted about it and called the management team idiots etc, I’m not sure it was supposed to go to but she sent it to ‘all company’ including CEO, CFO, her boss and everyone at the head office 🤣 she still works there (office based) as far as I know.

Oh and once I was on a date and the guy went to the loo and sent me a text about how the date was going. I thiiiiiink it was meant for his mate. He was having a better time than I was!

Also, my boss emailed the COO with a snippy message about me but sent it to me by mistake. She realized what she'd done and made me delete it before I'd seen it, and delete from my deleted items. But she didn't realize you can restore deleted items. So of course I still read it. It wasn't very kind and upset me at the time, but actually taught me a lot in the end.

I was arguing with with landlady about something rent related when I was in college and went to text my mother saying "landlady is being such a bitch about the rent"- I sent it to my landlady 😫😫 cringe. I had to turn my phone off for an hour because I couldn't cope with reading her response

I worked somewhere with someone who had the same name as me and did a similar role so I often got her emails. One time she was obviously on an MS Teams meeting and I got a message meant for her saying something on the lines of ‘oh my god that guy (name) is really hot’. I obvs looked him up then politely pointed out her mistake. She was mortified, it cheered me up no end and actually I could see what she meant 😳

I didn't receive this one, but was hanging out with a friend when she received a message in one of her groups comprising a naked photo of one of the members, saying "I can't wait for you to come home...."

It was the PTA WhatsApp group.

The unfortunate poster was someone I heartily disliked, so I was privately on Cloud 9 😆

I once sent a message when out Christmas shopping to DH, who'd got bored and wandered off, to come back to the shop I was in to help me carry some bags.

Unfortunately it went to one of my neighbours instead, who we'd had a dispute with about party wall stuff and their horrendously inconsiderate builders, so we were not on great terms.

The message I sent was 'Come back to Tiger!'

I eventually realised and sent another one saying ' Ooops, sorry, that was for Mr Whenindoubtgotothelibrary', but I didn't know how to even start to explain that Tiger was the shop, not some weird animal cosplay thing between me and DH.

I still go hot and cold thinking about it nearly a decade later. I very much hope I'm overthinking it!

Omg these are all so funny !!!
I have the best one yet 😂😂😂

I was doing my driving lessons at the time and I was just texting my driving instructor about the time he’s picking me up ect
but then I sent my boyfriend a message saying “baby making tonight “ obv we are trying to conceive .
and I sent it to my driving instructor 😂
I straight away messaged saying sorry wrong person I was sooooooo embarresed . He replied , no worries 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😄

I was the recipient of a WhatsApp, the PTA Queen Bee was moaning about me and other working mums being uncommitted to school, querying who the fuck did we think we were?Work isn’t so important compared to the little ones enjoyment of the Fayre….surely we could get time off. She sent to the whole group. Very funny

Go on, stir the hornets nest, you know you want to....

Reply back, I think it is lovely and they make a lovely couple, too many people do the big grand gestures for social media kudos and forget the real meaning ❤❤❤❤❤❤

It wouldn't bother me at all embarrassing the forwarder. Social media incompetent or not they are being bitchy and deserve to be called out.

(and it will make a more interested thread too!)

I sent a sexy text message to my son's swimming teacher once thinking it was my husband

Years ago I told a friend that i wasn't able to go on a night out as I had to cover an early shift as a staff member had a family death. She then sent me a long message meant for another friend of ours about what a lying, selfish, flaky bitch I was. I just sent it back to her and turned off my phone for a day 😄

Not the same colleague once forwarded their work number when they were on 2 weeks leave. But forwarded it to a large corporate client by accident 😅. They had logged out of the phone so we couldn't fix it 😆

The ticks have gone blue? The ticks only go blue if you’re the one who’s sent the message.

I mean, great thread nonetheless 🤷🏾

If it helps, a few years back I bought an item that turned out to have been stolen. The first I heard about it was when the police contacted me to get some details to build a bigger case about multiple thefts.

They then sent a confirmation email of each item and their victim buyer to an email distrubution group that contained all of our emails. So I could see the emails of every other witness - lots of which were simply their name@domain.

No they don't 😂 In a group chat the ticks go blue when everyone has read the message

On a work conf call my colleague, thinking he was on mute, said “who is this fucking retard?” about the person speaking. Nothing was said about it and he was lucky to get away with it.

No they don't 😂 In a group chat the ticks go blue when everyone has read the message

Only for the sender.

If I look at all my group chats, I cannot see the read status of messages I didn't send - i.e. those sent by others in the group. Only those messages I sent?

When i was younger i was going on various Internet dates and was talking to a few people at once

I was mucking around with my friends, talking about how it was going and who i might end up going on a date with.

AS A JOKE i put a whole list of my name with their surnames like a school girl

Eg mrs emma shaw
Mrs emma brown
Mrs emma Howard etc

I accidentally messaged it to someone i had arranged a date with that week. I had sent her a whole list of not just my ex's name and other randomers but also my name with her surname complete with hearts over i

I died of shame, said whoops and never recovered so we never spoke again

It still makes my toes curl thinking about it

Yeh the ticks go blue for the sender

What did you mean op? You won’t see those unless you sent it

Are there any Saffers here? As we have quite an infamous whoopsie.

'Het Chris al gery'? 🤭

A woman wanted to send a sexy pic to her husband, took a selfie shot of her vag, and sent it to her daughters hockey Whatsapp group in error. Parents and kids on the group.

Those were the days when there was no delete option.

Her next message to the group was.... 'Has Chris left yet'

Someone screenshotted it and, well, it went viral.

Also, recall the time a friend of mine was being made redundant. He went to the printer in the office to find his boss had printed an email to a senior manager about my friend with the line "the sooner cuntychops agrees to the offer and fucks off, the better".

The redundancy payout was way more lucrative after that email was shown to everyone involved