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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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MrsLighthouse · 26/06/2025 21:41

ConfusedSloth · 26/06/2025 19:46

I once thought I was on mute and said "oh my GOD, nobody careeeeessss" like a stroppy teenager about 5 minutes into DSis rambling on about DN being brilliant at something or other... No one acknowledged that I said anything and after a few seconds of silence she carried on getting him to stand on one leg and show us how good he is at it

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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MrsLighthouse · 26/06/2025 21:42

NoelFaraday · 26/06/2025 19:47

I meant to reply ‘That’s hilarious! 😂😂😂’ to my sister with a text she sent about something amusing but accidentally replied to my lovely neighbour who had texted me to tell me about her husband, ‘Just to let you know, Brian has had stroke.’

I didn’t realise immediately until my neighbour replied with ‘?’.

It’s a really horrible feeling when you realise your error. Thankfully, my neighbour was fine about it.

I’ve felt sick all day ☹️ hope the “stroke” husband was ok

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Lifelover16 · 26/06/2025 21:44

DC aged 15 sent a WhatsApp reading” piss up in Jacks garage, 7pm bring beer and weed” sent it to his dad instead of his friend. Needless to say DC got a good talking to and was grounded.

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MrsLighthouse · 26/06/2025 21:44

JohnPrescottsPyjamas · 26/06/2025 20:14

I’ve just remembered a bloody embarrassing online meeting during lockdown.

DH and myself were parish councillors at the time and like many, we were all a bit new and unfamiliar with Teams, having only done Skype and video calling one to one before.

We felt a sense of achievement having connected up and seeing all the different faces of the council on our laptop screen. We also assumed that you had to press some sort of key to speak and be heard.

Unfortunately, neither of us realised that Teams picks up voices automatically and highlights that particular screen. DH whispered into my ear - and he’s not very good at whispering - “Oh god, here we go. XXXXX can be such a boring wanker once he starts!” Closely followed by me hissing back, “Shhhh, I think everyone can hear you!”

I tried to cover up our gaffe by deliberately making a lot of noise, obscuring the camera and creating a distraction by pretending to be looking something up. Nothing was said, but such a cringe moment.

Haaaa…at least you had someone to b awkward with !

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IDontHateRainbows · 26/06/2025 21:45

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..

Removed it at 11....the post or the dildo????

Missj25 · 26/06/2025 21:47

I was sending a message giving out yards one time about my neighbour to my friend , except I was friends with my neighbours sister, she was in my contacts , & sent the message to her instead 🙈

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MrsLighthouse · 26/06/2025 21:47

franbrad · 26/06/2025 20:16

I know how you feel but mine was work related. I said something about a colleague but put it onto the main chat rather than the private chat I was having about them. They saw it before I could delete it and asked if it was about them. I was totally mortified. There was no way I could wiggle my way out of it, so I telephoned them directly and admitted it and said it was through frustration etc. They accepted my apology so all I can suggest is that you hold your hands up and apologise if it was that bad.

It was just judgy and sarcastic …l was mortified though and although it was aimed at a couple of family members it could have been appropriate for more 🙄 l did post the details earlier ..

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alcoholnightmare · 26/06/2025 21:47

CassieAusten · 26/06/2025 21:39

One of our neighbours sent what appeared to be a slightly blurry pic of her bottom to our road WhatsApp.

Obviously though, we are British, so we never spoke of it and went back to our usual content of missing cats, recommendations for plumbers, and wondering what that noise is.

I’ve literally just screenshot this to send to my neighbour WhatsApp group the next time someone does something embarrassing.
really made me laugh! 🤣

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MrsLighthouse · 26/06/2025 21:51

Dontlletmedownbruce · 26/06/2025 21:27

This is not as good as many here but funny all the same. I had a guy in to look at my heating pump, which needed a part. I saved his name as 'john name pump'. The day he was messaging about the part, my DDs friend was having a paddling pool party. About an hour before she realised her pump was broken so asked if anyone had a spare pump on the WhatsApp group. Several texts followed about pumps, thankfully someme else confirmed they were on their way with one. I replied, accidentally to the pump guy 'Girls are in swimsuits and very excited!!'.

He must have been a tad alarmed at that 🤣🤣🤣

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MrsLighthouse · 26/06/2025 21:53

CassieAusten · 26/06/2025 21:39

One of our neighbours sent what appeared to be a slightly blurry pic of her bottom to our road WhatsApp.

Obviously though, we are British, so we never spoke of it and went back to our usual content of missing cats, recommendations for plumbers, and wondering what that noise is.

Sweet ❤️

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MrsLighthouse · 26/06/2025 21:54

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OMG ! Did you tell them ? 🤣

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Hulabalu · 26/06/2025 21:56

Mrsplants · 26/06/2025 15:21

Before the days when DH and I were married and lived together I sent a message that was supposed to go to my husband to my boss (who I wasn’t at all very close to) by mistake. I think my DH had asked what I was up to and so my text said

‘I’m sat in bed eating raisins and watching Emmerdale’.

I didn’t even realise my mistake until my boss replied ‘erm ok??’.

Gold! 😅

Ilikemymenlikeilikemycoffee · 26/06/2025 21:56

Mrsplants · 26/06/2025 15:21

Before the days when DH and I were married and lived together I sent a message that was supposed to go to my husband to my boss (who I wasn’t at all very close to) by mistake. I think my DH had asked what I was up to and so my text said

‘I’m sat in bed eating raisins and watching Emmerdale’.

I didn’t even realise my mistake until my boss replied ‘erm ok??’.

Sorry but your text has got to be a description of THE most boring night in ever!

pambeesleyhalpert · 26/06/2025 21:58

radiantsausage · 26/06/2025 15:05

My brother accidentally sexted the family group chat instead of his (now wife, then colleague) and the first person to realise was me as I was reading it out loud for my mother who didn't have her glasses on

He's just about lived it down 10 years on 😉

I love that you were reading it out to your mum that’s exactly what me and my family would do 😂

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MrsLighthouse · 26/06/2025 21:58

Oh lord , l forgot how hard it is to keep up with posts but thank you EVERYONE for taking my mind off my stupid mistake 🙏 a reminder that we are all human ..
some are SO funny ( dildo and “l’m dirty” being the ones that had me cracking up ) and other cringy like mine …Mumsnetters always come up with the goods …xxx

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Butchyrestingface · 26/06/2025 22:07

I have a friend who is always WhatsApp spamming me with links to all the depressing news stories on the day. All day, every day. My WhatsApp timeline is just a wall of depressingly shite news stories and he won't stop, no matter how many times I ask. Most of the stories I've either already read or don't have time to read and have told him this. Very infuriating.

Anyway, last year, he started off one Sunday with yet another link to a story about a hillwalker who'd got lost up a mountain with no phone signal, a broken hip and the weather closing in. He has to crawl 2 miles uphill to try and connect to a mast and call 999.

I was feeling a little impatient at once again being spammed another story I'd already read. So I responded along the lines of, "FFS, what is it with you and these morbid stories about ill-prepared dim-wits who get themselves stranded up hills and expect mountain rescue to drop everything to save them? I bet that fractured hip hurt like a motherfucker. He won't do that again!" Probably not my finest hour but it would have appealed to friend's sense of humour.

Anyway, turns out I really should have checked what window I was posting to. For once, it WASN'T my friend dropping that story on my WhatsApp feed but someone from my EXTREMELY poe-faced hillwalking club sharing an apparently 'heart-warming story of survival against the elements' with the hillwalking group chat. And I didn't realise for about half an hour. I

Nextweektoo · 26/06/2025 22:16

justmyopinion2013 · 26/06/2025 17:45

Many years ago I was dealing with a friend (Clare) who was very toxic/intense, had loads of problems, was calling me all hours/texting constantly (then would have a go at me if I didn't reply straight away), threatening suicide all the time, SS involved with kids etc, you get the picture....

My mum was very concerned about me as she could see the effect this was having on me (especially as I had a newborn & 3 year old). My anxiety was through the roof.

So I put together a text for my mum saying "Thanks mum, Clare is absolutely draining me, I just can't cope with her anymore, she's making me ill. I have decided to gradually cut contact with her"

Problem was in my emotional state, I sent the text to Clare by mistake!

Only realised what I had done when an irate Clare called me 5 minutes full of abuse :-(

Talk about not taking a hint! 😂

Haircare3 · 26/06/2025 22:20

I met a guy on a night out and saw him again the next day as I was away with friends in the same place he was with his friends (think club 18-30 type thing).

We got along well so when we were parting ways, he asked me to put my number into his phone which I did.

Went home and, the next day, my Dad rang me and said he'd received a strange message..."I can't wait to see you again and stroke your soft skin".

I then realised with horror that I'd absent mindedly typed my Dad's number into the guy's phone.

The first 7 digits of Dad's number is the same as mine, so I just typed it in on autopilot. I always rang my Dad's number and obviously never my own so just did it without even thinking. It was in the days of when people still used to dial numbers rather than getting them from phone contacts.

We all laughed about it in the end and we've been together for years.

whynotmereally · 26/06/2025 22:21

Hen do chat and one of the participants was being a grief. The bride to be was obviously slating her off chat to someone as suddenly a message appeared about friend being a total PITA. Bride clearly realised and panicked and deleted the whole chat. ! She then started a new chat and apologised saying there had been a glitch.

Wrinklewoes5 · 26/06/2025 22:26

101Alsatians · 26/06/2025 18:10

Sent a WA voicenote to now XH after another one of his many disappearing acts along the lines of..

'When the FUCK are you back?! This is getting silly now,I haven't slept for days,the kids are exhausting me,need help etc. blabla'

Except...sent to my most recent contact, my boss at the time, who had just left for a business trip to South Africa and for once,left me holding the reins without micromanaging.

Worst thing was,he called me asking if I was okay 😱

This made me laugh the most. So sorry as it sounds awful but just such hilarious timing 😂Then I reread it and realised it was a voice note rather than a message and it made me laugh even more!

VehicleTracker77 · 26/06/2025 22:31

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Mottledgrey · 26/06/2025 22:37

Not as good as some of these stories but someone posted in our community selling WhatsApp group some toy train track for sale. My DH sent it to me as to whether we should buy it and I sent back “we don’t need anymore fucking train track!” Only I sent it in the selling group instead 🤦🏻‍♀️

toughtimestoday · 26/06/2025 22:41

I was once bitching about a colleague with another manager over email . I realised that I'd sent it to the colleague I was bitching aboutso told the other manager that she had to assist. I went to the colleague and said manager needs to see you right away and then went on to his email and deleted it! Breathed a huge sigh of relief. Colleague then came back to his desk and then asked me 'did you just delete an email you'd sent me?!. I suspect he'd already read it! I just fronted it out and said sorry but you were getting on my nerves so I was having a whinge about you!!! Surprisingly all was fine afterwards 😂

Sayshesheshe · 26/06/2025 22:48

An older lady (in her 80s) sent a gif to our street WhatsApp of of men dancing wearing Hawaiian skirts where every time they lunged forward their penises all
showed. I cackled like a loon when it arrived by mistake, especially knowing who sent it. She was mortified.

toughtimestoday · 26/06/2025 22:51

autumncrisp · 26/06/2025 18:51

I once seen an awful picture on the Facebook group "rate my plate".
I never reply on those but it really was disgusting looking. And anyone who knows the group will understand that much of the time people purposely post awful photos for the banter.

I cant remember the exact wording but I said something like "you must really hate your family to serve them something that looks like it's been shit out"

Only it wasn't Rate my plate. It was my local slimmingworld group page.I'd misread and posted that in reply to a members photo of her actual dinner.

I only realised once the leader inboxed me and said I'd really upset one of her members and she had to delete the post.

I never went back there again. Absolutely fucking mortified. 🙈

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Oh gawd that is fantastic and exactly the kind of thing I'd do 😂