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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 Confused

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? Grin

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thefurryone · 27/04/2012 13:33

I once sent an email to an all staff address that I thought just went to my colleagues in a very small and friendly office asking for hairdresser recommendations to sort out the horrendous mess I'd made of my hair when trying to dye it blonde at home, adding that I'm sure they could all see for themselves why I was in such desperate need of help.

Unfortunately, the list included the company MD who was visiting our office that day and whose hair was exactly the same shade that I'd managed to achieve Blush

LargeSkimMochaPlease · 27/04/2012 13:37

My prim and proper, married SIL once sent DH a text saying she would be all alone that night and needing her "special teddy weddy bear" for company "while she was away". Being the annoying little brother he is, he texted back who he was and what on earth was she on about. She texted back that it was probably "best to forget all about it". quite like having something on her

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 14:11

Haha! Like you could ever forget that.

Future Christmas dinner conversation for sure Wink

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headinhands · 27/04/2012 14:18

While in FB I noticed my dd had friended someone whose surname was the same as her slightly unusually spelled first name. I quickly fired off a pm suggesting they get married, BUT TO HIM INSTEAD. I only told her about it a few months later. Luckily the guy was Italian or something and his English wasn't great so I might have got away with it.

TallyMeBanana · 27/04/2012 14:23

The one that i'll never forget is a 'naughty' text I sent to the wrong person.

I was seeing a guy on/off for 3 yrs that I loved very much but it wasn't working. After a while I started dating someone else with the same name although I was still friends with the ex.
One afternoon the new guy and I were sending each other dirty flirty texts when the ex text me at the same time.
I accidently sent the naughty text to the ex Blush

I was horrified but 2 days later he turned up on my doorstep and asked me to marry him!! We've been together ever since......Smile

BelieveInPink · 27/04/2012 14:31

I intended to write to my husband (in the very early days when I was 18)

"I really want you to lick my pussy".

Due to the wonder that is predictive text what I actually sent was:

"I really want you to kick my pussy"

To my dad.

We have never discussed it to this day. And I am now 30.

TheSinglePringleWillicopters · 27/04/2012 14:47

Tally That wrong text actually worked out very well for you! Grin

I send at least 2 wrong texts a week! Maybe possibly more

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 14:53

Kick your pussy? Grin

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BonnieBumble · 27/04/2012 14:54

I keep hitting report post and send private message by mistake. So if anyone receives a blank pm, blame the iPhone not me.

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 14:56

I can imagine an angry message from MNHQ saying "What the fuck are you trying to report Bonnie??"

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TallyMeBanana · 27/04/2012 14:57

Grin Believe

MissCeliaFoote · 27/04/2012 15:08

My boyfriend got an email from a random female at uni who had clearly confused him with someone with a similar name. It said 'Hello gorgeous I had a fantastic weekend and you were so SEXY, looking forward to seeing you next weekend so we could possibly CONSUMMATE our relationship?!' His reply was 'er, I think you've got the wrong guy...'. She was clearly too embarrassed to reply back! Also who uses the word consummate in this day and age?

Also my boyfriend's mate is dyslexic and has twice sent him really gushing, lovey-dovey texts intended for his girlfriend whose name is right next to my boyfriend's in said friend's address book! So embarrassing.

I once got a text saying 'Did you go to public school? You have a posh voice'. They had clearly got me confused with someone else, I am not posh at all.... weird chat up line anyway.

MissCeliaFoote · 27/04/2012 15:17

Oh just remembered another one, a couple of years I was having a huge argument with my boyfriend and sent him a text saying 'You're being an utter dick. Come and talk to me when you've decided to behave like an adult. WANKER'. Anyway in fact I accidentally sent it to my completely innocent male friend who sent me a very hurt reply a few hours later asking what the hell he could have done to offend me!

INeverFinishAnythi · 27/04/2012 15:28

I was going out with a guy who also knew my older brother, and it wasn't going too well. I was having a mild text flirtation with someone else Blush Blush and accidentally sent a mildly saucy text meant for 'the other man' to my brother by mistake. He realised exactly what I was up to and just replied 'Big Brother is watching you.' Whoops.

is very appropriate for this thread Grin
TiddlesTheNaughtyTortoise · 27/04/2012 17:50

I hadn't been in my job very long when i received a joke email from someone I didn't know. I looked him up and he turned out to be a very senior manager in a different area. The joke was fairly sexist, although funny so it could have gotten him into some hot water (civil service come down on that kind of thing) if I'd made a fuss so i thought I'd just leave it. But he sent another one a week later so i replied this time telling him he'd got the wrong person.

I received a profuse apology, I said I didn't mind etc and we got into a bit of an email conversation as it turned out we both like gardening ( yeah,yeah I'm a geek!).

Fast forward two years and he made a visit to our area. Imagine my boss's ( who thinks I'm a numpty) surprise when said vair senior manager asks to see me, yes me, her lowly minion, shakes my hand and asks how I've been?!

sensuallettuce · 27/04/2012 19:57

I sent a text to my partner (who is in the Navy so we text A LOT) telling him what I was planning to do to him when he got home in explicit detail including what I would be wearing, how I would take it off, what I would do with his knob, what I wanted him to do to me.

Thing was I was also texting my dad at the same time (he is deaf so it's a great way of communicating) - and accidentally sent it to him - I was mortified.

DaisyMaisyJessicaEmily · 27/04/2012 19:59

I had a PM last week that was partly intended for me but then the sender started talking about some thread that had been posted that so was not me, made me giggle, shame it wasn't anything juicy though.

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 20:02

OMG I think I'd die if my DS accidentally sent me a text meant for his girlfriend!

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bumbleymummy · 27/04/2012 20:20

Oh no - I've just had a horrible flashback. I was once messaging my boyfriend at the same time as I was casually chatting to a few people in chat rooms (back when people actually used them!) I accidentally sent a rather kinky message to this really nice guy that I had just been chatting to about a shared hobby Blush. It was awful - he was a few years younger than me and he clearly thought I was some sort of pervert and logged off right away. I felt soooooo bad!

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 20:22

I bet he was still flattered though!

If a little scared Grin

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CheshireDing · 27/04/2012 20:33

I kept getting emails from some girls who were arranging a bacholerette party for their friend in Miami (they were all in America). They kept emailing my work address and I kept replying saying it sounded great but that they had the wrong person.

Shame, it sounded very exciting/potentially drunken.

MissCeliaFoote · 27/04/2012 20:42

CheshireDing, you should've just turned up.... 'HI GIRRRLS!' They'd all assume you knew someone there!

RevoltingPeasant · 27/04/2012 20:48

DP's name and my boss's name share the same first two letters, so any time I go to email DP from my phone it always suggests my boss's name first. One day it will happen.......

I was actually on the receiving end of this. When I was doing my PhD there was quite a snotty young lecturer in the department who was about 5 minutes older than me but liked to lord it over the postgrads. I had to ask her for a reference once and almost immediately received this reply:

'Hey [OtherLecturer'sName],
God, another reference request from a student. Really can't be arsed, do you want to do it?
Cheers-
SnottyBitch'

Then shortly after:

Dear Revolting,
My last message wasn't meant for you. I apologise for having accidentally hit reply instead of forward. Of course I will be happy to write your reference.
Yours,
ChastenedBitch'

Unfortunately for her, my supervisor was her boss..............

FoxyRoxy · 27/04/2012 20:50

I keep getting emails about fruit from Americans. I have the same name as the founder of a fruit drive organisation, I googled her! The first time I got an email from some guy asking if I wanted his spare oranges I was mighty baffled I can tell you...

Softlysoftly · 27/04/2012 21:38

Once sent out minutes of a meeting to a national client, a girl I was in the meeting with replied saying "you didn't send them within 48 hrs so they aren't legally binding and you know how untrustworthy those bloody people are". Oh yes she'd hit reply to all. Some very unhappy directors that day

I've also been on the receiving end, a note went out asking for nominations for awards at our company do, titles like "most likely to..." one of the sales guys replied to the whole company instead of sender nominating me for the person most likely to not get through the day without soup on her boobs Angry.

Turns out I did win a bottle of champagne for at the do though, think the pa organising it was feeling the pity.

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