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Message to wrong chat group ….mortified

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MrsLighthouse · 26/06/2025 15:03

Re: I sent a cross message onto the family group instead of directly to my husband . Deleted now, but l feel so ashamed and mortified … reached out to a couple of members to apologise but no response.. it may or may not blow over but please tell me your experience of sending messages to the wrong group so l don’t feel so alone in my stupidity …

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JustASmallBear · 28/06/2025 14:20

Matriarchofmenopausemansion · 28/06/2025 12:30

Emm.....I'm seeing this phrase.... style it out...what does this mean?! 🫣

It's what cats do all the time!

MrsLighthouse · 28/06/2025 19:06

BlueRin5eBrigade · 27/06/2025 21:24

My H (then boy friend) recieved a message from one of my best friends saying "it's not a wonder you smoke. You need to dealing with her all day". (I was having fertility treatment at the time and was venting to her earlier in the day). He said to me "I just got a weird message from your friend." Anyway I called her and asked her WTF. She told me that he's her friend as well and she'll say what she likes. I returned her house keys to her, her overnight stuff that she left at my house because she stayed over so often an never spoke to her again. I realised that while she was over and I was cooking, cleaning, doing her laundry and running around they were merrily playing xbox, chatting and bonding. However,she put her money on the wrong horse because he was never going to do fuck all for her while I treated her like a sister.

That’s awful 😞

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MrsLighthouse · 28/06/2025 19:46

ShouldIpursuethisfurther · 28/06/2025 08:41

Have you seen the viral tik tok post where a mum posted her "growler" on her son's football team whatsapp group 😄 She deleted for herself, not all, so it stayed on there! The WhatsApp was obviously meant for her partner!

I would have to go into witness protection 🤣

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MrsLighthouse · 28/06/2025 19:50

Bandofsisters · 28/06/2025 11:50

I’ve got a few ( but none as horrifying as some!)

I once “replied to all” rather than just my DH when we received our conveyancing bill quote for our house sale. I complained about how expensive bloody solicitors are!

I once “replied to all” when some guests told me they were vegetarian on the day of their visit, when I had already shelled out for scallops, black pudding, lardons and steaks! My reply was just “Arghhhh!”

and on WhatsApp I once sent a saucy message to my son’s swim teacher.

haaaaa…. And cringe too but so funny 🫣🤣.

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Slippylittlesuckers · 28/06/2025 20:33

My friend (aged 53) who is not social media savvy, reads all the weird and wonderful stories from Mail online. She read a story one night and decided to send it to her male work colleague (no chemistry, just mates type banter)

Her daughter messaged her the following day saying ‘mum you’ve been hacked, there’s a really weird story on your wall.’

My friend looked and was MORTIFIED. The story she had posted to everyone was about how some women touch themselves up and rub the odour on themselves (it’s called ‘vabbing’). She also posted the picture of a woman doing it…

She’s not yet lived it down.
I’m still howling on a daily basis.
I can’t resist winding her up saying her friends think she’s a dirty bitch 😂

MJQs · 28/06/2025 20:51

Wildhorsesdraggedme · 27/06/2025 00:32

My best friend had fancied a man she worked with for months but he had a girlfriend. He eventually split with her and after another few weeks he asked out my friend. He asked her out by calling via FaceTime with the video switched on and they chatted for a while.

My friend called me straight after brimming with excitement, it was also FaceTime but just audio, the call was quite long during which she needed the toilet, she said she had to hang up because she needed a poo and didn’t want to poo whilst she was on the phone…

She hung up the phone to me and put her phone on the floor next to her feet with the screen facing upwards, what she didn’t realise was she hadn’t locked her phone after ending the call to me and had somehow been on her open calls list and redialled the man she fancied on FaceTime video again.

The call connected and he got a full view of her on the toilet, she then stood up to wipe her bum (yes some people do stand up) basically right over the camera so he got a full view of her wiping her bum.

The kindest thing would have been that he didn’t mention what had happened and just cancelled the date, unfortunately he seemed to believe she’d done it deliberately as some sort of weird kink and sent her a text detailing exactly what he’d seen and how disgusted he was.

We laugh now but at the time it nearly destroyed her, she left her job and was so mortified about it, she was also paranoid about who he had told and didn’t go out for ages.

I think that’s far worse then sending a wrong text!

I don't think I have ever said NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO out loud at a post before... I have gone cold on her behalf!!

Beachtastic · 28/06/2025 21:12

MJQs · 28/06/2025 20:51

I don't think I have ever said NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO out loud at a post before... I have gone cold on her behalf!!

Me too, I don't actually think I would survive that 😨

MrsLighthouse · 28/06/2025 23:40

Slippylittlesuckers · 28/06/2025 20:33

My friend (aged 53) who is not social media savvy, reads all the weird and wonderful stories from Mail online. She read a story one night and decided to send it to her male work colleague (no chemistry, just mates type banter)

Her daughter messaged her the following day saying ‘mum you’ve been hacked, there’s a really weird story on your wall.’

My friend looked and was MORTIFIED. The story she had posted to everyone was about how some women touch themselves up and rub the odour on themselves (it’s called ‘vabbing’). She also posted the picture of a woman doing it…

She’s not yet lived it down.
I’m still howling on a daily basis.
I can’t resist winding her up saying her friends think she’s a dirty bitch 😂

Thank goodness she could claim hacking ! 🤣

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MrsLighthouse · 28/06/2025 23:46

T1Dmama · 27/06/2025 22:39

it was my mums birthday and I bought her a super expensive birthday card, went there in the afternoon with presents and gave her the card, then she was moaning that non of her kids had text to wish her happy birthday. Later that evening I was moaning to a friend about what an ungrateful cow mum was for whining about not receiving a text when I’d spent a fortune on a card and gifts! But I text my mum instead, it was before the ability to delete messages so I just had to ride it out and apologise!

Another time mum had text me saying about my sister having her druggy BIL as god parent to her first born, and her two SIL’s ….. I text back saying something about everything always being about her husbands family and us never being included … but I text my sister by mistake .

no biggy as both times I was speaking the truth! 😂

This next one is my friend…. He’s an older gent, used to pop to the Philippines and Thailand every year…. It was I think before smart phones and he’d emailed me a message and I can’t remember the exact reason why he’s forwarded it but it wasn’t meant for me!!…. The title literally
contained the subject ‘lady Boys’… I wasn’t going to say anything to him but on further inspection he’d ‘sent to all’ 😂😂😂 so I had to hotmail chat or MSN or whatever it was back then and say he’d sent an email ‘to all’ that I don’t think he’d meant to share 😂😂 He was very embarrassed and I never raised it again LOL

Oh lord 🤣🤣🤣

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saltandvinegarchipsticks · 29/06/2025 02:06

MrsLighthouse · 27/06/2025 15:02

Haaaaaa….but did you go ?

No, because I secretly think he actually would’ve wanted me to 😩

EleanorReally · 29/06/2025 07:53

when i was new to facebook i post on ds wall, where are you?
he deleted me after that Blush

TeachMeSomething · 29/06/2025 10:37

BedChem · 26/06/2025 15:14

Someone I know posted a video with a dildo shoved up her fanny. Was meant for someone she was messaging on Snapchat. Ended up on her story and she fell asleep.

she woke up and removed it at 11am the next day..

I woke up thinking about her and all the implications of it this morning, How do you come back from that?

ArtTheClown · 29/06/2025 11:55

I woke up thinking about her and all the implications of it this morning, How do you come back from that?

Legal name change and immigration to the furthest point on the globe. No other way.

Marosanne · 29/06/2025 14:17

Removed the message or removed the dildo? 😆

Justsewsew · 29/06/2025 14:28

I rather randomly did this whilst face to face either my boss. She was going on at me whilst I was walking down the corridor in front of her. I was pulling a blah blah blah face imitating her and realised to my horror I was actually walking backwards and facing her so she saw it all. I have no idea to this day how it happened. She must have been as disturbed as I was as she never mentioned it 🤣.

Icelollies2025 · 29/06/2025 14:39

honeylulu · 26/06/2025 18:33

I've told this one before but when my eldest was at primary it was pre WhatsApp and we had a class parents email group. There was a collection for teacher gifts at the end of each year so each teacher would get a spa voucher rather than multiple mugs and bottles of bubble bath. One year the class teacher was male and the group was wondering what to get him instead of a spa voucher. My husband emailed me (he thought) quipping "how about a spearmint rhino voucher" except he actually sent it to the whole group.

He phoned me in a panic and I said you just have to style it out and say sorry everyone that was meant as a private joke for wife, didn't mean to send to all. OK he said and started typing "I'm sorry .." but was on the train which jolted while he was still on the second word and he accidentally sent it prematurely and then noticed with horror that it had autocorrected to "I'm dirty".

Fortunately it caused hilarity rather than offence and he was teased mercilessly until our child had left.

Our younger child is nearly 10 years younger so when she started at the same school he said "at least there's no likely to be anyone left who remembers me". Sure enough first drop off he did he noticed a lady staring at him in the playground before announcing "oh I know you, it's Dirty Spearmint Rhino Dad!"

Along similar lines, friend's husband went out with reception dads for the first time. All going brilliantly, everyone getting to know each other, having a great time. One of the dads goes to the toilet and sends a dic pic to the dads Whatsapp group while he's in the toilet (instead of sending to his wife, getting her ready for his return later that night). He's forever known as dicpic[name]. 😁

gradygals · 29/06/2025 14:42

I did that in a time of extreme mental breakdown (had found out that hubby had an affair one month before). I have never been forgiven by my daughter and am completely devastated by the reaction.

samarrange · 29/06/2025 14:42

she then stood up to wipe her bum (yes some people do stand up)

Ooh, I feel a thread with its own poll coming on... (I also stand up!)

TwigletsAndRadishes · 29/06/2025 14:53

Whatsapp is an absolute bugger for this. I've done it so many times and seen it done many times. Often it's harmless but sometimes it's not.

If you are about to send a Whatsapp message that is not something you'd want the wrong people to read, ALWAYS ALWAYS stop and double check the recipient before hitting send.

Beachtastic · 29/06/2025 16:20

samarrange · 29/06/2025 14:42

she then stood up to wipe her bum (yes some people do stand up)

Ooh, I feel a thread with its own poll coming on... (I also stand up!)

How do you wipe your bum if you don't stand up? Do people have detachable arms?

NotAntisocialJustSelectivelySocial · 29/06/2025 16:25

@Beachtastic you just…reach around 🤷🏼‍♀️
no need for detachable arms.

Velmy · 29/06/2025 16:54

Many years ago I'd had a bit of a row with my ex and txt'd my best friend for a vent, as you do.

The fall out was over something very silly - my sibling had gone away for a few days and asked me to dog sit on shot notice, as her dog was a bit poorly so she didn't want it in kennels. Ex was a bit miffed over cancelled weekend plans.

In the midst of messaging both of them, I inadvertently replied to my friend's sympathetic "What's he done this time?" text with "He's shit all over the kitchen floor about six times, and when I tried to clean him up, he ran into the living room and got it all over the couch."

FreyaFromTheFens · 29/06/2025 17:01

XelaM · 26/06/2025 16:15

😲

The story or the dildo? 😆

FreyaFromTheFens · 29/06/2025 17:02

FreyaFromTheFens · 29/06/2025 17:01

The story or the dildo? 😆

Argh quoted the wrong post!

FreyaFromTheFens · 29/06/2025 17:05

FreyaFromTheFens · 29/06/2025 17:02

Argh quoted the wrong post!

And now I’ve rtft can see I’ve just repeated what every other person has 🙄