Texting or emailing wrong person

[JemimaPuddly]

I have just sent an email about someone to that person. I was attempting to send it to my friend but hit reply and not forward. I am mortified!

Please tell me if you have ever done this and the worst example of this to make me feel better! My stomach is in knots I'm so ashamed.

[Goingtobeawesome]

❤️💐

[ConkerTriumphant]

Goingtobeawesome he was indeed!
We were together just a few months - I was not in a position to fall into another relationship- but he was a lovely man.

He made me feel loved, sexy and valued at a time when my confidence was on the floor. He was a great strength to me. We're not in touch but we bump into each other every few years and have a chat.

I am now married to the man of my dreams.

[Sceptimum]

I sent a bunch of harmless texts to the person whose name was over my boyfriends in my phone - bring home milk, I'll be late etc. We really didn't get on, but shared a hobby so saw each other a bit.
Unfortunately he told a mutual friend who thought it was hilarious, robbed my phone in the pub one night and proceeded to send a stream of completely filthy and tremendously imaginative texts to him. I found them in my Sent folder a few months on and realised why he had been avoiding me more than normal!

[AddToBasket]

David O'Doherty has a song about this :

[Mouikey]

I thought I sent a friend a work a ranting email about my manager, setting out why I was so fed up, why they never listened and never supported me... I obviously didn't send it to my friend but my manager... worked out well though as we resolved the issues and work was a much better place to be.

I was horrified though and still cringe about it!!!

[DailyMailEthicalFail]

Goingtobe well, in my case the builder turned up like RoadRunner for his cheque and catsbumface looked like she was going to lamp me in the meeting...

[sparepantsandtoothbrush]

My MIL sent me a text meant for SIL slagging me off once. That was pleasant...

[Goingtobeawesome]

Fizzingmum [puke]

[newmumwithquestions]

I've sent a frustrated email about someone at work mucking things up, meant for my friend but sent to the person that kept mucking things up.

I was mortified. She was rubbish at her job but lovely and had very very low self esteem and I was convinced she'd get better if someone just tried with her so I'd been trying to help her, but she mucked things up so I vented, to the wrong person. Nearly 20 years on I still feel guilty as I know it will have affected her confidence. I learnt my lesson though and have never emailed or texted anything bad about anyone again.

OH got a late night text from his auntie - she meant to send it to her new boyfriend. We thought it was very funny. She took it all in her stride (she's lovely).

[fizzingmum]

I once meant to send a text to a friend updating her on a second date. I described what I thought was going to be a night of passion ahead of me and accidentally sent it to my DAD! He was next to her in the phone book. Mortified!
Also my Mum once sent a text to my DP telling him she wanted him. She tried to pretend it was a mistake but it wasn't and her only mistake was thinking that he wouldn't tell me and that I wouldn't pull her on it! That's a whole other thread!

[Goingtobeawesome]

This thread would be better if we knew what happened afterwards.....

[Goingtobeawesome]

Conker?!?! Was he??

[Judydreamsofhorses]

Not especially bad, but I sent a text meant for my friend Rachel to my boss's boss, whose name also started "RA". I started off by saying "hi sweetie", then went on to ask him to bring wine and crisps to my house that night so we could get drunk. He didn't reply - or bring any wine.

[HyacinthBouquetNo1]

I haven't but I have been the recipient. It as my Dad, he was sending a really rude, dirty, disgusting sex email to someone he was chatting with online (and it wasn't my stepmother) and he accidentally sent it to everyone in his email address book! I am not sure he has ever realised as I have never mentioned it to him but maybe other people did. Have never seen him in the same light since.

[happypoobum]

I have done this.

I fronted it out - called my friend immediately, explained what I had done and begged her forgiveness. What I had written wasn't bitchy, but I was taking the piss out of her and it was unkind.

Never again.

[JessieMcJessie]

I suppose not too bad in the scheme of some of the cringey stuff on here (respect to the poster who managed to keep working with a boss who knew what she was getting up to in riverside alleys!) but I did recently send an email to my DH forwarding our plumber's massive bill and complaining about how I thought he had strung the job out unnecessarily.

Unfortunately instead of pressing "forward" I'd pressed "reply" and it went straight to the plumber. I only realised when the plumber replied 10 minutes later with a very defensive email explaining why it had taken so long. Funnily enough we paid in full straight away.

[Dani240]

I should add that they broke the window with a misplaced football, not out of malice!

[Dani240]

When we were organising our wedding my DH tried to forward me an email from the church that we wanted to marry at, saying "We need to demonstrate a meaningful connection to the church - I won't mention the time when I was younger that me and my mates broke a stained glass window there and legged it" - this was followed by a very risque comment to me

He of course hit reply instead of forward and sent it to the vicar

[ConkerTriumphant]

I met a bloke after coming out of a bad break up. We arranged a first date for a few days later.
On that morning, new bloke sent a lovely text saying how he was looking forward to seeing me later.

I sent my best friend a copy of his lovely text, followed up by another text saying that new bloke was 'going to be divorce therapy on legs and he should be available on the NHS'. Only I sent it to him instead of my friend.

I still remember going hot and cold and desperately pressing buttons on my old Nokia, trying to cancel it

[Bee182814]

Not me but my best friend once hit the last dialled number on her phone thinking she was calling me (I should mention that the reception wasn't very good) she went on a rant about how she had just visited an old friend and how unclean this persons house was, how they had gained weight, etc. Got cut off at some point due to the bad reception. Obviously sods law dictates that it wasn't me she had called. It was the person she had just visited. I got an odd call from her a few minutes after this had happened asking me how to get back to the motorway. When she realised she had called me that time and questioned who she had been on the phone to on the first call the penny dropped. No way put of that one really. .....

[AlwaysDancing1234]

Wow some of these make mine look fine!

[DailyMailEthicalFail]

Twice.
We had a big builders bill to pay.
H announced he was leaving me.
I texted him to say: 'don't think you can run out on that big builders bill'.
To the builder. Who was round next day for his cheque.

2nd time: I described someone as being 'that old witch who is as much use as a chocolate teapot, and with a catsbum face to boot'. To my Mum.
and then sent it to that someone, with whom I had an upcoming meeting.
Rather a frosty meeting later that week (during which she wore a catsbum face).

I really shouldn't be let out.

[AlwaysDancing1234]

20 years ago and I still cringe thinking about it....

I had been to visit parents on the train with my sister, very long journey and she was really really getting on my nerves.

I text boyfriend having a right moan about "sister really doing my fucking head in I wish she'd shut the fuck up about her precious job and idiot boyfriend".

Hit send. Then watched in horror as her phone pinged and she read the message is sent to her by accident. Rest of journey was veerrrryy awkward!!

[shovetheholly]

I once sent an email to my partner at the time that said 'Oh my God, I can't wait to move away so I never have to see X again - he's a sociopath'. Only I didn't send it to my partner but to X.



I also had a secretary who insisted on plastering the kitchen with various notes prohibiting us from doing just about anything in there, all written in this horrible cutesy font. So the next time she sent round a circular email with the latest diktat, I wrote 'Jesus Christ on a bendy bus' in the same font and sent it to my friend. Only I didn't actually do that last part - I managed to 'reply all'.

I still scream very loudly but silently inside when I think about both of them.

[ComtesseDeSpair]

Applogise, OP. You can't pretend it didn't happen, but you can show you have the balls to own your mistake, acknowledge it was wrong and try to put it right.

I once wrote out a text to my friend about the first date I'd had the day before, which had gone so well that I'd finished the night by sucking his cock in a side street down by the Thames. And then promptly sent it to my boss whose name began with the same first three letters. It was excruciating. I sent a follow up text basically saying, "please invest in some brain bleach and let's never speak of this again". On Monday morning he cheerily asked "good weekend?" as he always did, with more of a glint in his eye than usual, to which I replied "yes, thanks" with more suppressed laughter than usual; and then the world kept turning. I was fortunate that we had a good relationship generally and I suspect that he probably suspected already that I had a bit of a riske private life.