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To ask for your worst, most shameful misdirected messages/emails?

135 replies

pandarific · 22/08/2015 10:07

At the age of 17, I once sent my other a text meant for my best friend asking 'if we should try and get some gear?' (I thought smoking was uber cool at the time.)

Cue a long, excruciating call, where I managed to half-convince my mother that it was slang for alcohol - still bad, as we were underage, but not as bad.

I'm getting hives just remembering it.

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MySordidCakeSecret · 27/08/2015 13:57

To an acquaintance who had recently suffered a bereavement, I managed to replace:

You'll be in my thoughts,

With,

You'll be in my thighs.

Literally had been reading through with furrowed brows then I came to this and spat smarties yoghurt everywhere!

Pedestriana · 27/08/2015 14:02

Also, at the same company as the previous slip up. Bitching to colleagues about someone in another department.
"Oh, X, yeah he's full of it!"

Guess who was standing behind me?

RattusRattus · 27/08/2015 18:53

Not done it (yet) but it was done to me this week. We are hosting an Xmas party and I sent out an invitation (i know, early early early). One guest replied accepting and it was swiftly followed by her DH berating her for not having sent out a save the date card because they wanted to host a party that night too. I don't think he wants to come to ours!!

ElsieMc · 27/08/2015 19:29

My dd sits opposite a really sexist, offensive man at work. She emailed her boss saying "Ken is the most unspeakable arsehole". She immediately realised she had in fact sent the email to Ken and had to watch his face as he opened it. He calmly said "Did you mean to send that?" to which she equally calmly responded "absolutely".

NeathTheMexicanSky · 27/08/2015 21:23

Floppityflop 'Dear Anus' hahaha
Grin

Sunflower1985 · 27/08/2015 21:59

"Could you bring up my bank cards to buy bras"
Sent to friend not DH. Could have been so much worse as DH and boss have same name

0urKid · 27/08/2015 23:52

In a bar I used to work in I became friendly with 3 lads who used to come in and sit at the bar. We had a lock in one night and I went home with one of them. The next day one of them asked me how to retrieve a text he couldn't find on his phone ( I had the same one). I opened it to see in big block capitals PADDY SHAGGED OURKID. THEY COPPED OFF AND WENT IN A TAXI. GET DETAILS!!!!! I read it to him and he went bright red and just went "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." I wasn't offended. In fact I found it hilarious. It also showed that men like a good gossip too. :o

FatGirlRuns · 28/08/2015 07:47

During the early days of me and DH's relationship, I was getting dressed for uni one morning when a text from him popped up: "Feeling very sad today". Being in a state of undress I spontaneously took a selfie of my boobs and sent it to him saying "These will cheer you up", just as a second text pinged through from him: "My nan just died".

ConfusedintheNorth · 28/08/2015 07:50

My boss once signed off an email to customer who had made several complaints with "Retards..." instead of "Regards..." she was mortified, the rest of the office helpfully dissolved into laughter.

var123 · 01/09/2015 16:57

I once sent a note about a difficult customer needing assistance to a partner company. I knew both the customer and the person at the other company quite well. So I asked if she could please prioritise this customer so that I had some progress to offer by the end of the day when the customer would undoubtedly want another lengthy and tedious phone call with me to go over it all again.

The partner company replied to my email saying they'd resolved the issue and a replacement would be sent to the customer the following day. Except the partner company replied to a general office address and one of my team picked up the email the next morning, failed to notice my email appended to the end and forwarded it to the customer.

About an hour later, I received a furious, but, very brief, note from the customer letting me know how deeply he now despised me.

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