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Embarrassing typos / texts sent to wrong recipients

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RainbowZebraWarrior · 04/04/2024 22:01

There's been threads like this in the past, and I've shared my previous faux pas, but I'm just cringing at a message I've sent to my 79 year old Mum.

She's been sleeping badly and waking up at 4 / 5am. I've just sent a text saying "Night night, hope you sleep well and don't wank too early"

I'm usually pretty good at checking my texts before I send them.

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Littletinytarzanswingingfromanosehair · 04/04/2024 22:08

I work in recruitment and I have emailed the managers regarding hours. And I have very very nearly mistyped shift as shit on email.

"Please may I have details of the what the shits look like"
"So is it a morning shit?"

ChesterFoxE · 04/04/2024 22:11

Many a time my spell check has changed my sentance too:

Sorry for any incontinence caused. FML

hazeydays14 · 04/04/2024 22:12

I was texting a work friend about wedding guest list drama when I was planning and he responded ‘as far as I’m concerned your fat’
it was supposed to say ‘your day’.. he was absolutely mortified, sent a string of messages explaining himself.. I was absolutely howling, knew he wouldn’t have been randomly calling me fat.

LetMeGoogleThat · 04/04/2024 22:14

Worked for a well known parenting charity, often referred to breastfeeding as beastfeeding 🤦‍♀️

warmcookiedough · 04/04/2024 22:15

ChesterFoxE · 04/04/2024 22:11

Many a time my spell check has changed my sentance too:

Sorry for any incontinence caused. FML

🤣🤣

Octomama · 04/04/2024 22:15

I was doing the 20:4 fasting plan and sent a text that said "I've been farting all day today, I actually feel so good and have so much energy, don't know how I didn't discover this sooner!"

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RainbowZebraWarrior · 04/04/2024 22:16

My Mum just texted back saying "I'm sure I won't. I think I'm past that stage of life, Rainbow"

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WoodBurningStov · 04/04/2024 22:17

RainbowZebraWarrior · 04/04/2024 22:16

My Mum just texted back saying "I'm sure I won't. I think I'm past that stage of life, Rainbow"

Grin
BrieHugger · 04/04/2024 22:18

I emailed my boss’s boss and mentioned I was really busty (instead of busy).

StormingNorman · 04/04/2024 22:21

Asking your MIL about her wank 😂😂😂

Not a typo but said out loud.

Trying to recall the word for an ejector seat and knew it had something to do with an evacuation…

…my bastard brain blurts out ejaculation seat.

waitingforthedrain · 04/04/2024 22:26

An entire essay written as a dental student on "The Muscles of masturbation" instead of "Mastication"

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RainbowZebraWarrior · 04/04/2024 22:33

I've only ever sent two texts to the wrong people in 25 years of owning a mobile phone. One was supposed to be to my Mum again, calling my ex partners Dad an ugly fucker (his Dad was horrid to me) except it went to ex partner instead. His name begins with M and was next to my Mum in my contacts.

I swiftly changed ex partners name to 'Father of my child' and haven't had any mishaps since.

My Dad, however, is short sighted and constantly sends messages which rely on autocorrect. His best one was (also to my Mum) "Hey, good deal at the market, 5 kilos of children for £20. Want me to get some?" It was supposed to be Chicken, not Children. My Mum replied "No thanks, I think that's illegal"

My poor mother. Thankfully, she has a sense of humour.

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Hahahashower · 04/04/2024 22:34

2 of my best friends are a married couple. He sent me a text meant for his wife saying 'I'm in getting in the shower, wish you were in there' he realised just after I read it and deleted it. He was absolutely mortified whereas I couldn't stop bloody laughing....he's like my brother

Moonflower12 · 04/04/2024 22:44

Both of my worst ones have involved children.
At work one day one of the chickens in our petting area had died. Colleague texted another colleague to ask her to come and deal with the body of the children who'd died! We works in a nursery so she was understandably very worried!

And another was autocorrect again. I was writing a comforting message to a worried parent about her child's height/ weight ratio. My phone changed percentile to centipede every time. ' (Childs name) is on the 75th centipede!

Bluebellsinthewind · 04/04/2024 22:52

My dh and his dad have the same name. I sent dh a pic of my boobs with a filthy note. Yip I accidentally sent it to his dad Confused

HagBitch · 04/04/2024 22:56

Bluebellsinthewind · 04/04/2024 22:52

My dh and his dad have the same name. I sent dh a pic of my boobs with a filthy note. Yip I accidentally sent it to his dad Confused

This is awful 🤣. How do you cope with this?

JustTalkToThem · 04/04/2024 22:56

I once sent a text message to a friend - “Are you going to Marks surprise party tonight?”

yup. Accidentally sent it to mark …. His GF never talked to me again.

rainbowbee · 04/04/2024 22:57

Not me but a great big missive sent to our workplace about the seagulls on the roof which were a 'pubic health warning' 🤣

Bluebellsinthewind · 04/04/2024 23:07

@HagBitch honestly I am still absolutely mortified and it was a couple of years ago now. We just all ignore it ever happened.

irishmurdoch · 04/04/2024 23:20

Bluebellsinthewind · 04/04/2024 22:52

My dh and his dad have the same name. I sent dh a pic of my boobs with a filthy note. Yip I accidentally sent it to his dad Confused

I would have to get divorced- no other options Grin

Sallysslippers · 04/04/2024 23:23

After texting a client I clean for, I thought I was messaging my friend “uh the creepy twat is going to be in again, cba. Deffo replacing after Xmas.” Guess who got the text ….

vdbfamily · 04/04/2024 23:24

I was sent a condolence message from a friend after my brother died of a brain tumour. She was trying to say she had been thinking so much about dear William, but it corrected to " I have been thinking so much about dead William"
It actually made me laugh out loud but then I really really hoped she would never see what she had written as would probably feel awful.

vdbfamily · 04/04/2024 23:27

I have on more than one occasion texted someone inviting them round for a meal and then realised it had auto corrected to' neck'
Slightly awkward 🙂

EarringsandLipstick · 04/04/2024 23:29

Hahahashower · 04/04/2024 22:34

2 of my best friends are a married couple. He sent me a text meant for his wife saying 'I'm in getting in the shower, wish you were in there' he realised just after I read it and deleted it. He was absolutely mortified whereas I couldn't stop bloody laughing....he's like my brother

Love this 😂

EarringsandLipstick · 04/04/2024 23:31

vdbfamily · 04/04/2024 23:24

I was sent a condolence message from a friend after my brother died of a brain tumour. She was trying to say she had been thinking so much about dear William, but it corrected to " I have been thinking so much about dead William"
It actually made me laugh out loud but then I really really hoped she would never see what she had written as would probably feel awful.

(I'm very sorry about your brother)

That's priceless though. Imagine her realising what she'd sent ...