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

[ShitlandIslands]

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.

one of my clients forward emails and think she had deleted the chain but she hasnt- particularly when it is a reply and you are added in to the reply but were not on the original.

last year there was a massive whistleblow in our sector which hit the press. Lots of speculation as to who leaked it all.

Lets just say someone needs to learn start a new email each time!

i accidentally revealed my friend’s pregnancy to our boss a lot sooner before she was ready to share the news with the world.
The boss came to me looking for gossip, I revealed nothing. The I picked up my phone and messaged my friend: “X was just here obvs phishing for info. Told her nothing. You don’t need to worry anyway, you’re legally entitled time for midwife appts”
And I sent that text to the boss, of course.

So easily done. A long time ago I was an administrator for a university course. A student emailed me to say she was very unhappy with the course, it wasn't what she'd thought it would be etc etc. I forwarded it on to the course leader, an academic, saying I thought she should see the student to discuss. Academic replied to me saying 'Yes, I suppose I have to, but I really don't want to'. This made perfect sense to me as the student in question was hard work, but unfortunately she'd copied the reply to the student. The student blamed me! She claimed she'd emailed me in confidence (but without actually saying that it was in confidence She lost all my sympathy at that point.

When we were having some renovation work done on our house I messaged the builder to sort out a few issues. Several messages were exchanged but I wasn’t getting a straight answer from him.

I then messaged DH to say that he needed to deal with builder because (insert lengthy list of builder’s shortcomings)….about half an hour later could see message had been read and wondered why DH hadn’t replied, then I got this horrible creeping realisation of what I’d done 😳😳.

Messaged builder with profuse apologies and he said ‘alright, doesn’t matter’ but him and his team were working there for 3 more weeks so I found a lot of reasons to go out, the atmosphere was quite tense….and the quality of the work certainly deteriorated after that 😢

I was being used as a' friend's' alibi once when she was having an affair with a married man. We would go to the pub on a Friday night and next thing her married man would turn up and I'd spend the next 2 hours playing gooseberry with them whispering and giggling like kids.
On one such occasion I went to the toilet and messaged another friend about how I was stuck with ' Sarah' and her creepy, letcherous married man who kept looking at my tits.
Pressed send.... yes, I had sent it to 'Sarah'.
I legged it back to the table, my heart in my stomach, luckily her phone was in her bag. Managed to make up some story about needing to check something and got her to pass me her phone, got into it and deleted it.
Yes it was very bitchy of me, but it really was a horrid position to be put into. The friendship fizzled out soon after.

My friend at work emailed the boss to complain in great detail about our co worker. She blind cc'd the co worker in because she thought that would mean he wouldn't ever see it.

No idea what she was thinking but I laughed so much when I was telling her what she'd actually done that I wee'd a bit.

On a group whatsapp, Sarah said something that alluded to the fact that her husband was a fire fighter. I sent a voice message to the group of me saying to DH, "oh, Sarah's husband's a fire fighter!"

Not as bad as some of these but still...

There was an extremely amusing photo in the media of a supermarket display of Schwartz herbs and spices that had the first letter in huge bold print.Some bright spark had rearranged the display to spell rude words ( Tits, bum, wank etc) Made me giggle so I sent it to a friend. Only I didn't...... I accidentally sent it to the estate agent that was helping me find a property and who was probably the most handsome and charismatic man I have ever met. We had a real connection, the sexual tension was palpable, but he was happily married, he and his wife ( who was lovely) worked together so there was no question of anything other then a professional relationship. Unfortunately, both he and His wife would have seen it as she had previously responded to my mails when he was on visits. It was excruciatingly embarrassing. I apologized and explained immediately but still shudder to think about it!

I regret sharing on this thread now.

I sold some clothes on EBay to a scouser, we'd been communicating by text beforehand.
Got £30 for them and texted an update afterward to who I thought was DH stating ' I got £30 for those clothes. Sound la.' Except I mistakenly sent it to my scouse buyer.
He didn't reply.

Not a forwarded text but during break time at 6th form I got a text on my new phone saying "so when are you going to come and take me I'm the shower?". Me and my friends thought it was a hilarious wrong number so we called it and my big sister answered 🙈🙈

I'm in a WhatsApp group chat and one of the girls was being an utter bitch to everyone and my friend and I were talking about it in a private chat.
I sent my friend a message basically saying I'm sick of the girl being such a bitch....but sent it to the group by accident where it was immediately read by her 🤦‍♀️😂
I didn't say anything that wasn't true 🤷‍♀️

I was at home and oh was at work and he wanted a saucy quick video and a few pics, kids were asleep and thought why not and all that. Got myself ready and filmed myself quote proactively, done up to the nines also in sexy lingerie for the pics, hit send. My phone crashed so queue my pressing loads of buttons. It come back to life and I realised in my frantic button pressing not only had I sent it to oh but also to my mum, his mum, my neighbour and his nan 😳 this was back when whatsapp didn't have the delete for everyone option. It's safe to say I avoided everyone for a while and have now moved away🤦🏻‍♀️ for other reasons I may add! Bloody mortified! Noone talks about it now as if it didn't happen luckily but not my finest moment 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh god ... 20 years ago I took a group of children on a week long school trip. I was in quite a new relationship and on my return was thrown passionately on the bed by my then boyfriend.

During throws of said passion one of us must have leaned on my mobile phone and dialed the parent of one the pupils (who I had called as their child needed calpol) it was awhile before we noticed a disembodied 'hello, hello, who's this please'

I've gone red thinking about it!!

My phone bugged out and showed my husbands name where my mothers should have been. I sent a very detailed message about all the dirty things I was going to do to him that night but it sent to my mom. I practically died when she messaged back saying “Glad your marriage is going well. maybe next time just sent a picture of the granddaughter instead.”

Not quite the same but I was trying to settle baby and summoned DH to the nursery to complain about when our friends we’re going to leave … and yep, we had a baby monitor that they could all hear in the living room.

Jesus 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I NEED to know what happened next 😂

I was hungover and out with a close family member, the family member nipped to the bar, I texted DH to say something like "oh this is dragging today, they (family member) are moaning more than usual, shoot me now" or something like that....and then I heard the ping of a message tone on my family members phone, on the table in front of me....I looked at my phone....ahhh shhhiiiittt !!! I had txt the actual family member instead of my DH, luckily I knew their passcode and deleted the message, but it absolutely mortified me and taught me a very good lesson.

My flatmates A and B used to bitch about a girl who used to live with us, and Flatmate A in particular was a huge shit stirrer, always bringing up how that other flatmate C was horrible, messy, rude etc.
And then one day I got a text from her, saying the same thing about me, which she send to me instead of Flatmate B. I replied and she was avoiding me for months to come until she moved out.

I love threads like this.

I once got an email from boyfriend’s friend, let’s call him Tim, inviting us all to a gig.

I replied to boyfriend via email, ‘saying ‘I don’t want to go, Tim is dim and his girlfriend bores the tits off me’.

Somehow, to this day I don’t know how, I forwarded the email to Tim and boring girlfriend as well as my boyfriend. It did NOT go down well and we broke up soon after.

The boyfriend bored me as well. It was a lucky escape.

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I was on a work call with a supplier. They were presenting but for some reason, teams hadn't put them on do not disturb. So when one of their team sent a message about me, it popped up on the screen being shared. It said, "she's an idiot and is really doing my head in"

I was so shocked and felt a bit sick when I realised what had been written and that it was about me. I styled it out though and said "Mr supplier, that message you have just sent has just come up on Mrs suppliers screen" then went on mute. Let them deal with the awkward silence.

They called me afterwards with all sorts of excuses. I've not dealt with them since and would like to think the absolute mortification they would have felt when they realised what they'd done and then the fretting of what I was going to do was punishment enough.

FYI - I am not an idiot nor was I being one!

When my dd was at primary school the married father of one of her friends somehow managed to send me the text he intended to go to his mistress which detailed how much he missed her and what he was wanting to be doing. A bit later I got an “ooops sorry” type of message from him.

Great stories on this thread but really annoying that @ShitlandIslands hasn't come back to clarify - it's bad form.

Why would you say that but not explain it?