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Tell me your text message horror stories

282 replies

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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LifeonMarss · 22/10/2024 18:00

Finally got added to my DH family whatsapp and they were all talking at the same time my friend messaged me on there about her boyfriends sex issues so I replied "could you not just ask him for oral only for a while". Sent to his entire family instead of my friend

Bubblebuttress · 22/10/2024 18:03

I text my boyfriend a really dirty f*ck me type of message. Only I sent it to my mum.

My sister was still at home ( 18) and i had to get her to find mums phone and delete it. Mortified she read it.

25 years on… we never speak of it still.

horsesforcourses6 · 22/10/2024 18:04

changedusernameforthis1 · 22/10/2024 17:32

A friend was once selling handmade Christmas decorations. In all honesty, they were terrible. I wouldn't want one if they were free. But I bought one to be a nice friend, and agreed to share with friends and family to get her more custom.
Accidentally sent her a message, with a photo of her decorations attached, saying "I know these are completely hideous but my friend is trying her best. If I send you the money would you please buy one from her so she thinks she's got some custom?"

A couple of other people had also bought from her, and she wouldn't believe that I didn't pay them to do it. I felt terrible for ages after.

No this honestly makes me want to turn myself inside out.

Are you still friends?

UserNameOfShame · 22/10/2024 18:07

Not half as bad as some of the others here, but I once sent a text to DH which started "your bloody mother" then a rant. Of course I sent it to MIL. Then my phone immediately ran out of battery and I was out and about so could do nothing about it until it was far too late.

InThePinkScarf · 22/10/2024 18:10

Giggling at these!
I once sent a text designed for a boy to my dad. Pretty tame but it still makes me embarrassed as hell.
Also done the thing where I was complaining about a friend to someone else then sent it to said friend. She never said a word about it but did mention what I had done to someone we both knew.

Hatty65 · 22/10/2024 18:10

Sent a text to a very well bred, middle aged lady I worked with who had flu and was off work.

It was supposed to say, 'Hope you spent the weekend in bed recovering'. Predictive text changed it to 'Hope you spent the weekend in bed fucking'.

I was mortified. I didn't know her very well.

Tiredforfive45 · 22/10/2024 18:11

The day after I found out I was pregnant with our first, I sent a text to my husband at work, “Good morning Daddy ❤️.”

Accidentally sent it to a colleague.
Panicked.

”sorry. That was for my husband.”
”sometimes I just call him Daddy.”

Panicked more.

“Not in a sex way!”
”hahahahahahahahaha”
”Just because of the cat.”

Mortifying, honestly. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

She was lovely about it and once I announced my pregnancy she said she had figured as much but I still re-live it and cringe.

InThePinkScarf · 22/10/2024 18:11

@hatty65 That is brilliant!

BirthdayRainbow · 22/10/2024 18:14

This is the thread I want to join in on but my crap memory is helping me right now. Nearest is calling my now ex h by my teenage boyfriends name..

MotherOfVizslas · 22/10/2024 18:16

OhHaiOwlInYourTowel · 22/10/2024 17:28

Years ago had a bad date with a man called Dominic. It was a one nighter I suppose (and certainly was after I did what I did!)

Sex was terrible. He left soon after and I immediately texted my best friend with the message 'ugh! Just hideous! I'm going to call him Micro Dom from now on as could barely feel it'

Of course, sent it to him didn't I?

Still go hot and cold when I think about it, 18 years later ..

🤣🤣🤣

LorettyTen · 22/10/2024 18:16

I got a text off my friend when I was in Asda. I replied Can't reply properly now, I'm busy shopping.
Of course I didn't have my specs on and later when I saw her reply "Yuk TMI"
I realised I'd actually typed I'm plopping.

GiddyRobin · 22/10/2024 18:19

Oh God. I still cringe when I think of mine. Cheek burning cringe.

Years ago, DH had been away for a few nights with work. I sent him an extremely racy text about the toy I'd bought and how I wanted him to do particular things with it to me that evening.

I sent it to my boss. Of my new job. She was thankfully a bloody lovely woman who laughed herself silly over it, but oh my God. I could never use that particular item because the burning shame just ruined it! 🤣

DrDisrespect · 22/10/2024 18:20

Matched with a guy OLD, had one date. Went ok but didn't feel a spark but we were still chatting. Had one too many drinks one night and accidentally sent a very raunchy text to him including some very explicit material and the mention of an uber to him instead of my FWB who I was also chatting to at the time 🤦‍♀️

downhere · 22/10/2024 18:20

I was once on the receiving end of a text (SMS, which ages me) from an acquaintance that went something like,

"Oh my god just escaped from going for a drink with downhere, of course she is the best teacher ever. She is so full of herself!"

Taught me a lesson to be more modest 😆

laddersandsnakes12 · 22/10/2024 18:21

When I was a teenager, I was messaging my new boyfriend and I asked if he wanted to meet up in town at the weekend. He said he'd love to but that his grandad was really ill and would be visiting him in hospital over the weekend as it was likely he wouldn't make it another week. So I messaged my best friend to update her, with the message ending: "please don't die grandad, that would really fuck up my love life for the next few weeks". But hadn't realised I was replying to him by accident instead of messaging her.

Luckily he saw the funny side but in those few hours where he didn't message back I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me for my stupidity and selfishness 😆. I thought for sure that we were over!

mutleyschuckle · 22/10/2024 18:25

Accidentally sent my best friend a "hey look what you're missing" complete with revealing in the shower photo. To her credit she opened it & never replied. I then realised that she wasn't my partner & madly tried to make out I needed her opinion on my skin 😂
Messaging friend 1 about picking up kids/play date "I'll let you know when I've spoken to bobs mum. Dad dropped him over but I couldn't ask him because he never has any idea what's going on" sent this to bobs dad....
Text my dog Walker exactly what I was going to do when I got in & to be ready for it, instead of my partner. So glad she saw the funny side of that one

PassingStranger · 22/10/2024 18:28

OhHaiOwlInYourTowel · 22/10/2024 17:28

Years ago had a bad date with a man called Dominic. It was a one nighter I suppose (and certainly was after I did what I did!)

Sex was terrible. He left soon after and I immediately texted my best friend with the message 'ugh! Just hideous! I'm going to call him Micro Dom from now on as could barely feel it'

Of course, sent it to him didn't I?

Still go hot and cold when I think about it, 18 years later ..

Not surprised. That was vile. I cannot ever texting that to a friend.

pestowithwalnuts · 22/10/2024 18:33

Celticliving · 22/10/2024 18:00

Text my Dad and told him that Mum was going to lick his arse.

Bloody predictive text.

I'm crying with laughter here .🤣🤣🤣

PrincessNannie · 22/10/2024 18:34

I had a night out with my female work colleagues. Got in a cab and sent my husband a text “On my way. Really horny be ready for mega sex.” Pressed send got home and well I will leave that to your imagination. Got into work on Monday and my client (a very senior person) asked me how my Friday night was. I said it was awesome. He said check your text messages as my girlfriend laughed until she wet herself. Yes I had sent the text to him. I did have to tell my boss (oh the shame) who thought it was hysterical.

Namechanged1974 · 22/10/2024 18:34

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!

You first

Hatty65 · 22/10/2024 18:35

@InThePinkScarf She is the poshest person I've ever known - and sent a text back that said, 'Darling! Too kind..'

We became good friends after that, but I still blush to think of it.

LouH5 · 22/10/2024 18:36

When I was at uni, my friends and I were planning a trip to Barcelona, but one of the girls didn’t have a passport as her parents wouldn’t let her. She was 20. She kept saying she was sorting it, and she’d come on the trip but then wouldn’t get a passport sorted. We really wanted to get it booked but we had to stall for her, as she didn’t want to book/pay for a hotel and flight until she knew she could get a passport. I got really frustrated anout it one afternoon and text one of the other girls giving it all “I’m so fucking sick of this with Amy, she’s 20 years old it’s pathetic she has to beg her parents permission to get a passport, I don’t get it, it’s not fair on the rest of us having to wait, she needs to just sort it out whether they like it or not, let’s give her a deadline to make a decision by Friday otherwise we just go ahead without her?” And yep, you guessed it, I sent it to her. I felt bloody horrid as I would never normally be so vicious when talking about my friends, but I was just so frustrated.

FortyFacedFuckers · 22/10/2024 18:41

I once sent a very rangy message about my boss to her instead of DP... she walked right into my office and said "did you text me" I was confused saying no picked up my phone and suddenly realised what I had done, I laterally said oh sorry that was for DP 😳

Another one
My DP was working away and we were having a little "sexting" and my dad sent DP a message of course he accidentally sent the explicit message meant for me in reply to my dad, my dad being the guy he is replied saying I hope this is for my daughter & forwarded it to me saying I think this is for you, nearly 20 years later he still takes the piss out of DP

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!

clarepetal · 22/10/2024 18:42

I work as a teaching assistant, and we have a department WhatsApp group. Xmas Eve last year, someone sent a message saying 'Happy Xmas and hope the kids are enjoying it.' I read it quickly, thinking it was a school mum. I replied 'happy Xmas to you, and it won't be long before the kids are all wanking and not bothered about xmas'. I then finished up by saying afterwards 'To be fair, it's usually me who is cracking one out,'.
This was I thought a joke to a close school friend about wanking.
If took me a few hours to realise I had cross referenced to my work messages when I had no reply. I deleted and apologised.
My boss never said anything to me, so I don't know how many people actually read it (about 40 in the department) but I got a few giggles when we went back after Xmas hols.
Not my best moment.