That sinking feeling when you send a text to the wrong person ...

[InstrumentsofTorture]

I'm embarrassed! I sent a text this afternoon, meant for my ds, to a colleague. Fortunately he seemed to see the funny side but even so:

Conversation was as follows:

Me: You left the dogs with the run of the sitting room, and surprise surprise, they pooed in there. How difficult is it to follow a simple instruction? Maybe if you were paying for everything you'd give a toss

Colleague: Many things are my fault, but on this occasion it wasn't me.

My husband has the same as our plumber.....there's no exciting story. I was mindful to file plumbers number under 'plumber' as I could see me messaging the wrong person lol.

Yeah @InstrumentsofTorture it's fine to totally miss the point of the thread but you have questions to answer! 😉

I'm already howling at these so placemarking to read more over my morning coffee 😂

My worst was texting a friend about a girl who was a nightmare and saying how angry I was with her behaviour....except I accidentally put it in the group chat that she was a part of 🫣 She replied asking if that had meant to be for/about her and there was no point backtracking so I said 'yes. I'm just that annoyed with you' and said no more 🙈🙈

My dogs are pooping in the sitting room because they're old.

What makes you think I haven't trained them?

Ds is 26.

This is chat not aibu.

My colleague is very lovely and very good at his job - can only presume he was talking about at home!

Duly answered!

I once sent a friend a whole rant what I said what she said about someone I was in the middle of an argument with, except I sent it to argument person. I nearly died when I realised but then I sent another text saying 'see, that's what happened' - got away with it too!!

I once WhatsApped my line manager's manager with the following message (meant for my great nephew)...

'Ok love, it's time to get into the StarTrek jimjams I bought you and snuggle down. You've got a big day tomorrow'.

She replied with...

'Fab! The jimjams haven't arrived yet, but I hope you ordered large as the diet isn't working' 🤣🤣

This is brilliant! Can’t remember sending anything less than innocuous to the wrong chat but I do remember, as a junior member of staff, talking to one of the execs I supported at work on the phone. I was answering him brightly and enthusiastically, super positive and then put the phone down and groaned/rolled my eyes at the others in the office before going on about how he had a proper messiah complex and everything had to be about him, couldn’t stop talking about himself etc etc. Everyone else vocally agreed.

His voice came out of the speakerphone, just to say, “Good to know,” before he put the phone down. I was mortified.

He and I are good mates now, but I still die inside when I think about it.

I screenshot a chat with an old boss (asking info about an old project) and went to send it to my boyfriend, attached the screenshot and wrote - cunt (sorry about using that word on here and yeah. Sent it straight back to old boss.

I remember actually throwing my phone away from me out of sheer shock. I was shaking like a leaf. 😂 got a grip then blocked

I once babysat for someone eons ago when we only had shit phones. She went out and said help yourself to anything. There wasn't anything not even milk for a cuppa. She wasn't paying for babysitting.
I ranted to dh by text. Yes, I accidentally sent it to her. But she'd left her phone at home and it beeped next to me. Old nokia unlocked so I just deleted it.
She wasn't a close friend so didn't feel bad about not babysitting anymore.

A colleague hadn’t attended an important meeting and at our online team meeting she told our manager she had been unable to attend as she hadn’t received the invite. The appointment was in her calendar and my work friend meant to message me “lies and excuses - the meeting is in her diary” but sent it to the team meeting chat. She deleted it quite quickly but it would’ve popped up on everyone’s screens

Dh once sent a photo of me in the bath with baby DD to the family group chat instead of me.
They were very nice about it, and thankfully it was just a bit of boob, baby covered the rest!
Still cried in the bathroom over it when I realised what he'd done though 😂 He was very apologetic, I don't think anything could have prepared him for the post partum hormone rage that was unearthed that day!

Bowing out of this thread - because dogs shitting in the living room is a bit yucky

And? Did your boss come to meet you in the warehouse?!?!

I once accidentally dumped my DH by text. It was meant for someone who was a friend at the time, but I accidentally sent it to him.
Basically, my friend at the time was married, but having an affair ( which is why I ended the friendship because she wanted to use me as her excuse to be out for the night )
The text went something like...you should be concentrating on your marriage, not screwing around, you will be sorry when you're divorced and struggling along by yourself.
Poor DH phoned me immediately, all confused to tell me he hadn't been unfaithful and why did I want a divorce?

Why on earth have you edited? Your first comment was excellent.

(we can see original with the 'edited' button)

I received one not meant for me…all about me. It was horrid.

it was from someone who I was a godparent for one of her DC; we had a business together and husbands were best of friends. It completely ruined the friendship and business when she told me in person that she was telling the truth so it was okay.

since then she’s lost more friends and I realised what a toxic person she was. She would always be bringing others down and had nothing nice to say about anyone.

I didn't realise you could read the unedited message until now - thanks

Ironically I've had to edit this message as the quote didn't work.

Carry on with the thread...

Wow you're a joy.

I chuckled over this exchange I had with a colleague who accidentally texted me instead of his wife:

Colleague: "Did you feed the dogs?"
Me: "Was it my job?"
Colleague: "A yes or no is all I need"

It sounds like your colleague has a wonderful sense of humour!!

I have a friend I send a lot of WhatsApp voice messages to and sent her a long rant about a mutual friend who is bat/shit obsessed with her dog and how I just can’t stand seeing her anymore.
Almost immediately got a phone call (unusually) from someone I only vaguely know but a very kind person to warn me I had put it on the group chat of numerous people (including batshit friend). In a panic I deleted it but then of course couldn’t see who had listened to it…
Was unbelievably mortified but no-one take ever mentioned it and am so grateful to the kind person who called me!

Just this morning I sent this to my lovely work colleague:

Me: Thanks for a lovely evening...can't wait for Saturday when we can finish what we started 😉😉😉

Colleague: Glad it went well...tell me more later 🤣🤣

🤦‍♀️

Obviously the text was meant for my new-ish love interest 🤣 So embarrassing 🤣

Yep.

I once thought was texting sister about a dull dull date but in fact I had texted the man himself.

Mortifying!

A male colleague once texted 'I love you' to our Big Boss every hour on the hour for a full day. He didn't realise until he was just about to leave the office and got a reply saying 'You do realise I'm not on the promotions panel, don't you'. The look on his face was pure horror.

His newish girlfriend had started a new job that day and he'd decided she'd appreciate the messages. Apparently when he got no reply he assumed she just couldn't use her phone during the working day but kept sending them so when she was able to check she'd know he had been thinking about her. Her name had a similar spelling to Big Boss (along the lines of Mary/Mark).