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Ever sent or received a PM that was meant for someone else?

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WorraLiberty · 26/04/2012 18:52

I received a PM this afternoon that simply said "Hello, I am just testing on iPad"

That was it...nothing else. I searched their name and they've never posted anything either

Anyway, it made me wonder if any of you have ever sent/received a PM, text or email meant for someone else?

And if so, was it embarrassing? Did it get you into trouble at all?

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aquashiv · 27/04/2012 00:05

When abroad and far from home I replied to a very raunchy email from himself in the early days of our loved up courtship and instead of replying to just him I clicked reply all. The bloody shame of what he and I said has meant I will never ever pen another love letter....the recipients including his own fecking Mother and my Accountant.

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 00:07

Noooooooooooooooo!

Sorry but I'm pissing myself at that

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Pendeen · 27/04/2012 00:10

Where is the extreme red-faced smiley whe you need it?

Yes.. wrong text.

I sent a text to a client (I'm an architect) to report that the builder working on his cottage was very much behind programme, was not very proficient, had made a mess of the plastering and I had had to make him strip the walls and start again.

I then said I thought he (the builder) was a supercilious, patronising, self-imporant bastard.

All very true, unfortunately the client's name was Nigel L and the builder was Nigel I.

Guess what happened next! :(

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 00:12

Oh dear...did you get a reply Lol?

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Beckamaw · 27/04/2012 00:14

I used to work at the same company as my father. He was HR manager. We had very similar user ids on internal mail.
We had received a general email about the electronic clocks that would soon be updated to battery powered clocks. It explained the benefits of battery powered clocks and the timescale for phasing them in.
A colleague of mine removed all of the 'l's from the word clock and forwarded it to me with feigned indignance.
He sent it to my Dad!!!
:)

aquashiv · 27/04/2012 00:16

Only my so called BF responded obvioulsy to reply all with how shall we say a delicate reminder and piss take of what we called each other....my ex sis in law mentioned it in passing five years later and my accountant once when we talking about plants with long tentacles. I am not entirely sure if I heard him correctly though so I left it there...

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 00:22

I'm reading these stories through the gaps in my fingers held over my eyes!

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Pendeen · 27/04/2012 11:45

WorraLiberty

No thank goodness and neither of us ever acknowleged my mistake although site meetings were a little strained after that.

zombiegames · 27/04/2012 11:47

I am really glad you started this thread. I haven't known how to broach with you worraliberty that rather emmm revealing pm you sent me. I am sure it wasn't meant for me.

IsSamNormansDad · 27/04/2012 11:53

Haha yes! One of my male friends lovely wife has the same first name as me... He was going abroad to work for 3 months. I'm sure you can imagine the rest
I just texted him back to say thanks, but our respective spouses might not be too keen on us, and I quote "fucking like bunnies" I was pmsl as was DH, my poor friend has never lived it down - still makes me laugh a couple of years later. I'm not going to repeat what I can remember, it might be a bit much, even for MN.

everlong · 27/04/2012 11:59

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SarahBumBarer · 27/04/2012 12:00

Oh God - yes. I once tried to forward an email to a co-worker from a colleague having added my own bitchy comments critique to the email. Unfortunately instead of forwarding to co-worker I replied to the colleague who sent me a very hurt reply

Luckily co-worker and I worked in different offices and by the time we actually met in person I had got married and changed my name and I'm not sure she ever realised it was me!

Umm - a few years later I did the same thing again. Very good at learning my lesson, I am.

GiserableMitt · 27/04/2012 12:06

Years ago our boss sent an email out to all staff saying he would be away for a week and any queries should be directed to one of the managers in his absence.
My then-BF, who worked at the same company had nicknamed the manager "Dopey" on account of him being a dopey, lazy idiot.

I forwarded the email on to my BF saying "Another week of fuck all for Dopey then". Except I didn't forward it, I "replied" and sent it back to my boss.

It wasn't until my leaving do a year or so later that my supervisor told me that the boss had instructed him to give me a bollocking over it but he found it so funny he couldn't bring himself to do it.

LentillyFart · 27/04/2012 12:11

I can only assume worra that you have mislaid your 'code words' book. Let me refresh your memory.

When I said "Hello, I am just testing on iPad" what you should have read was
" worra I am stuck on the toilet and the new pack of paper is still in the car. Send help please "

It's ok. I rang the Asda helpline in the end. After some initial disbelief they sent a man round.

AnaisB · 27/04/2012 12:12

After receiving a voicemail from a friend who was worried about having a coil fitted and asking me to describe the process. I phoned a different friend with the same first name and left her a voicemail describing the whole process in great detail.

lolajane2009 · 27/04/2012 12:12

i once sent a dirty message to the wrong conversation on an online game i was playing

HipHopOpotomus · 27/04/2012 12:13

I've recently started getting emails for a man who shares my initial and last name - to my gmail account.

I've entered into a quite nice email exchange with his father.

Strangely they all live in the same city as me, though neither of us are from here.

MeconiumHappens · 27/04/2012 12:26

Oh god, these make my bum crunch up with cringeyness.

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 27/04/2012 12:46

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Groovee · 27/04/2012 13:12

I recently received a text saying "Just heard your happy news. We're so happy for you that our girls will have a playmate, we think you'll make fab parents!"

Definitely wasn't for me as I have completed my family and there was no love from and the number I didn't recognise.

Beckyboo4 · 27/04/2012 13:14

Oh god here goes

My old boss was sometimes happy but other times quite a miserable old biatch. On one of her less likable days I emailed a work colleague about her "being in a mood and not being able to chat" and my colleague replied "she had a face like a smacked ar*e". I found out later that day she actually had access to my emails and I was hauled into an office. My point was it was clearly a private email and she was clearly in a mood therefore it was very factual email. Needless to say our relationship changed from that moment on and I was moved deaprtments a few months later (which I actually didn't mind so teh email did me a favour).

Also a few years back when mobiles were still newish I went away for a girlie weekend and my then DP (who is now my DH) gave me a new mobile number as he was off for the weekend with the lads. Over the weekend I sent a rather adult text signing off as "slick lips" only to discover he had given me his friends number in case of emergencies and I couldn't get hold off him. I still go red thinking about what I wrote in that text.

Groovee · 27/04/2012 13:14

Oh and the divisional commissioner hadn't filled in a dad's email address right, so a lovely young guy with the same name kept getting brownie emails.

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 13:20

Lentilly I'm surprised Asda fell for that scam again...how many men is that exactly now??

Oh it was zombie...just be grateful I couldn't get the photos to send

Some of these stories are cracking me up!

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 13:22

I'll never be able to order Crispy Aromatic again

I once recieved a text from a friend telling me I'd "brightened her Dad"

I'm going to assume she meant 'day' and hide the next time I see her Mum.

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CinnabarRed · 27/04/2012 13:27

I once played a practical joke on a friend, which I thought at the time was quite funny but actually caused him a huge amount of worry.

The head of our company sent out an all-staff email obliging us all to engage in some worthless admin task or other. My friend forwarded the email on to me with some choice observations of his own. I replied to him with the message "Did you mean to send that email to everyone?", having amended his email to include the UK ALL distribution list in the To field and changed the subject line to RE: instead of FW: (so it looked like he'd hit reply-to-all rather than forward).

My friend was ash-white and almost in tears. Luckily I sat near enough to him that I saw his reaction and was able to reassure him before he had a heart attack.

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