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Tell me your text message horror stories

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PumpkinSpicedLatte · 22/10/2024 15:47

please make me feel less sick by sharing your horror stories of sending messages to the person you’re talking about/screenshots. Bonus points if it’s worked related!

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chipfork · 25/10/2024 17:50

Messaged a hungover colleague 'stay in bed and I'll get you breakfast' and predictive text changed it to 'stay in bed and I'll get you breathless'

dudsville · 25/10/2024 18:40

I'm still catching up on these, but was just reminded of the time my very old phone created a WhatsApp group whilst jostling about in my bag. It was very selective, choosing only a male colleague I didn't know well and had some responsibility for, the husband of a friend I don't know well, and my ex. I was very quick to delete that but did chuckle over what they must have thought, though only 2 of the 3 knew each other, and no one knew how i knew the others.

GingersOwner26 · 25/10/2024 18:56

mrlistersgelfbride · 24/10/2024 20:55

These are great 😂

Very tame in comparison but my daughter stole my phone a couple of times when she was 3/4 and started messing with it.
She must have text 3 colleagues (I didn't know that well) 1) a random link from google news about Donald Trump 2) photos of Instagram hairstyles and 3) A WhatsApp message of only around 50 emojis 😂🫣

My uncle left his phone lying around on Christmas Eve and his eight year old granddaughter got hold of it and sent a WhatsApp of lots of random emojis to what she thought was her great uncle. She had sent them to the plumber who had the same first name.

MrsMillyFluff · 25/10/2024 21:44

butterflyflutterby123 · 23/10/2024 00:22

Friend texted me upset about her weight and saying she looks fat. My initial ‘noo’ got autocorrected to ‘moo’

Crying 😂

MrsMillyFluff · 25/10/2024 21:51

Smallsalt · 23/10/2024 11:12

When my ID twins were born the were very very like their Dad .

I sent a pic of them to my friend , jokingly entitled "Who's the Daddy?"

Except I sent it to a random stranger.
Silence for 24 hours then I got a terse "Who is this?"

Don't know if it was an enraged wife or an ashen faced bloke!

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😂😂😂

AmIEnough · 26/10/2024 07:38

Watto1 · 22/10/2024 17:28

I once texted my boss instead of my husband asking him to pick up some dishwasher tablets from Sainsburys. Only realised when my boss returned from his lunch break and plonked a box of dishwasher tablets on my desk!

I love this!! 🤣🤣🤣

AmIEnough · 26/10/2024 07:38

BeADinosaur · 22/10/2024 17:36

That's actually very sweet!

Once messaged my line manager saying something like 'Just leaving now, can't wait to see you! Love you xx'

It may have been slightly more soppy/mushy then my memory allows me to remember.

He text back almost immediately with 'I hope to fuck that wasn't meant for me!'

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I’m actually laughing out loud at this one!! 🤣🤣🤣

AmIEnough · 26/10/2024 07:49

LouH5 · 22/10/2024 18:41

Oh another one, in my home town there was a car park by a beach and there were rumours that a lot of people would go dogging there. As teenagers who had just learnt to drive, me and my best friend would often on a Friday night go through the McDonald’s drive thru, and go for a drive down the coast road, chatting and listening to music. We would often drive by the supposed dogging spot hoping to catch some action (we were daft 17 year olds, just wanting a giggle). Even though we’d spend about two hours together, driving by the rumoured spot was five mins out of the evening, but we’d always refer to it as “going dogging.”

One night I text my friend saying “what time you want to go dogging tonight?” And lo and behold, I’d accidentally sent it to my mum who was sat right next to me. I was so red faced trying to dig myself out of the hole!

This one has me in stitches!!🤣🤣

AmIEnough · 26/10/2024 07:59

Mine seems quite tame and boring in comparison to some of the others here but I had once arranged for myself and three friends to go out for dinner one evening. One of our friends has formed for never offering to drive, she is lovely but a bit of a princess. I sent a WhatsApp message to what I thought was one of the friends saying I'll drive on Friday "Jane" offers… In which case I'll drive! Knowing full well that "Jane" would never offer. I'd actually sent it to the whole group and although I managed to delete it very quickly, 2 of the friends definitely saw it because they told me but the subject of the message never said a word and so I still don't know to this day if she ever saw it! She didn't offer to drive!! 🤣

AmIEnough · 26/10/2024 08:02

Ballinluig · 22/10/2024 20:28

Ooooh mine is a doozy. I was giving a colleague lifts to work as she didn’t drive - she would get the overground to near my house, I’d pick her up en route, and then I’d drive us both to work (never charged her for travel as it was on my etc). Anyway, she was ALWAYS late, always always, it would drive me insane and was beginning to be a problem at work. One day, when she was again late, I wrote an absolutely savage message about her to my husband, saying how awful a selfish she was, how much of a misery she made my life, I hated her and so on. Well of course, I sent it to her. The worst part is though, the second I pressed send she (laughingly) opened my car door, and sat down next to me, as her phone pinged WITH MY MESSAGE. Yes, I had to sit next to her and watch her read the message. It was a silent drive to work that day…

12 years later and I still want to vomit with I think about it 🤣

Omg!! This is a doozy!!! My toes are curling just thinking about it!! 🤣🤣

Cismyfatarse · 26/10/2024 08:26

A friend e-mailed a pupil - away for an interview and who had asked for advice - something intended for her teacher boyfriend (they worked at the same school and was a PE teacher)

Something like Miss Smith is keen to know if Mr Jones is ready to meet round the back so she can examine his balls. Or similar.

She then had to send an e-Mail to the whole school claiming to have had her phone stolen and, essentially burn her online school life.

She married Mr Jones and said pupil aced the interview but......

ErectionSection · 26/10/2024 12:09

Mayana1 · 24/10/2024 15:01

Just to say wow, at what age you all had children in your family, so there is still a great great grandad around? He must be very very elderly now!

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Family started young - parents at 19 and 21! So Great Great Grandad is approaching 80. Impressed he's still got it in him, so to speak.

butterflyflutterby123 · 26/10/2024 18:41

DoraSpenlow · 24/10/2024 10:59

Standing the very long queue at the Co-op just now waiting to pay for my four pints of semi-skimmed and remembered this post. Started really laughing out loud. Tears running down my face, the lot. Just couldn't stop. Several people asking me if I'm ok which kept starting me off again. Luckily I got served before the men in white coats arrived. Had to walk back to the car still in fits of giggles getting some very strange looks.

Funny how some simple things can really set you off. Think I will have to avoid the Co-op for a while.

Thanks @butterflyflutterby123 can't remember the last time I have laughed so much.

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Haha you’re welcome! Love this, so many times I’ve desperately tried to hold in laughter in public unsuccessfully 🤣🤣

HammerTimeNC · 26/10/2024 19:43

A friend was dating a guy who said he was in the throes of painting his new flat so couldn't meet up for dinner that evening.

Then she received a text from him, clearly intended for another woman, about their takeout order.

OrNo · 26/10/2024 20:12

usplustwo · 23/10/2024 14:43

Not exactly a text message faux pas, but I was once doing a temp job and the person sitting opposite me was a real hottie. Heard him on the phone chasing an internet order that hadn't arrived and he had to read out his address. Nosey little me thought I'd type it into google maps and check it out later, I don't know why, you know when you have a crush and anything about them is interesting 🙈Unfortunately for me, my fat fingers must have pressed go as my phone decided to blurt out at full volume 'directions to [insert his address here]' for the whole office to hear. Still mortified thinking about it.

Genuinely lol'd and 🙊 at that one!

Possibly because I had a hottie sit opposite me. That's exactly the sort of thing I would do. And 😳😳 for you 🤣

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AlexaSetATimer · 30/10/2024 11:32

I've loved all of these but I think "nooo" to "moo" 🐮 is my favourite Grin

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 30/10/2024 14:56

I don't really have a horror story but my autocorrect changes "noodles" to "bodies" - luckily DS1 is the only person I've offered to cook bodies for so far, but it's happened more than once.

Duchesscheshire · 12/11/2024 13:28

Not a text but phone call. I called shop who were supplying a new fire for us to discuss instalation days. Put phone down. 5 mins later phone rang..."hi it's sue again. About the fitting at xx Lane.. just spoken to lads they can't do it until week after. Thing is I'm a bit scared to phone Mrs duchesscheshire back to tell her. Rob said very posh and scary lady. Will you call her?" I giggled and said "it's me.duchesscheshire and I didn't realise I came across as posh and scary but useful to know? I'm quite nice really". She was mortified and lovely. Still giggle about it now if I see her in town.

PyongyangKipperbang · 13/11/2024 01:28

the phone calls.....

This was not me but my BIL.

He had entered a radio cash draw text thing and got a phone call from a private number at about the right time on a Friday afternoon, so he answered with "MAKE ME A WINNER!!" The guy on the other end said "Oh mate I am so sorry, I am calling from X X energy company".

Turned out to be some bollocks call about changing their tariff or something but they spent longer discussing the disappointment BIL had and the guilt the caller had!

DurinsBane · 13/11/2024 01:38

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 22/10/2024 17:53

Was a work email... was meant to be internal but sent it to the client .... It read "Sharon (the client) is bat shit crazy".

Did you get sacked for that?’

ARichtGoodDram · 13/11/2024 01:40

I was having two chats at once. One with a friend talking about how nasty a mutual friend's ex was being in their divorce (which was happening because he cheated on her) and one with my SIL as I was minding my nephew as she had a super important work thing and he was off school with a migraine.

I meant to text "He's being an absolute dick" to my friend.

I only realised when my SIL messaged back saying to tell DN that she'd take his PlayStation for the whole weekend if he didn't behave

ClementineSatsuma · 13/11/2024 14:10

@ARichtGoodDram Fair play, she took that comment well!! That really made me chuckle.

BirthdayRainbow · 13/11/2024 17:46

ARichtGoodDram · 13/11/2024 01:40

I was having two chats at once. One with a friend talking about how nasty a mutual friend's ex was being in their divorce (which was happening because he cheated on her) and one with my SIL as I was minding my nephew as she had a super important work thing and he was off school with a migraine.

I meant to text "He's being an absolute dick" to my friend.

I only realised when my SIL messaged back saying to tell DN that she'd take his PlayStation for the whole weekend if he didn't behave

What a great SIL for having your back and not refusing to accept her child could be being naughty.

InThePinkScarf · 15/11/2024 14:29

Love that @ARichtGoodDram !