Tell me your text message horror stories

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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!

@Hatty65 She sounds brilliant !

I gave a prostitute my address and asked her come by at 6pm….

all a big misunderstanding. I found a phone - called the last number and spoke to the owner of the phone who was now with the woman who had been the last person to call him. I was supposed to text that number with my address so he could come collect it. Unfortunately - he had all the prostitutes in his phone saved under the same name and I ended up texting the wrong one!

oh, when he did eventually pick up the phone he gave me £40 😂

My friend was seeing someone and sent a sexy underwear picture to him... except she sent it to her son's football team's parent WhatsApp group 😳

This is so sweet, bless him!

My then fiance had been away with work and I hadn’t seen him in four months, he was due home that day so I sent him a very detailed text outlining some planned activities for that evening, along with a photo, I sent it to the family whatsapp which included his mum and very elderly grandma. He didn’t twig this when he read it, thank god he didn’t reply, but neither did anyone else, so it remained there until his mum eventually sent another message a few days later. We were staying at their house, so I essentially gave them an order of service.

My wife was supporting a non verbal disabled child, Sam.

She had just started the job and was speaking to her colleague Derek about ideas on where to take Sam who suggested swimming as he had taken him swimming before.

My wife then messaged Sam's parents saying "I think we will do swimming on Thursday, Sam told me he loves swimming!"

She then had to apologise and say she meant Derek said that as Sam is non verbal and has no communication skills 😅

Another one....my bosses boss is called Kevin. And my bosses new boyfriend was also called Kevin. Just after work one day she called her boss thinking it was her boyfriend all sweetly like "hiiii how are you? What you up to?" And her boss was like "er I'm in Tesco picking up dinner for the kids?" which is when she realised her error 🤣

Mine was actually very unprofessional. Not a text but in the same meeting at work as one of my very best friends. We all had laptops open in our office as we were dialling into the main meeting going on at our sister site. As I'm sat nodding and smiling to appear engaged whilst our manager goes on and on about the new recruitment drive and how we now offer a free breakfast bar to all new members of staff for a year I meant to send a teams message to my friend saying 'that's the worst fucking idea in the world. Welcome to our soulless shit show hope you like nutrigrain'. But I sent it to the teams meeting chat with 26 participants...

Not a wrong person but an auto correct.. My boss sent me a picture of himself in his new suit, I replied 'You look amazing when you wear a shit'!

A long time ago, I was regularly working in the office till late in the evening, as was a man from another department, and whoever was first to leave would say don’t work too late to the other.

One evening we were both working very late: I was just about to go on holiday and had loads to do. He left first and said he had to get home to see his wife, who was also called Catname.

When I left, I sent him a text message saying “Elvis has left the building” and signed it Catname as I didn’t think he had my number in his phone.

He read the message and thought it was his wife leaving him 😳

I'd had a colonoscopy for which I had had to fast and had been pumped full of gas to inflate my bowel. A close friend texted me to ask whether it was done and I was home, and I replied, truthfully, 'All done - just waiting in the pharmacy, trying not to fart'.

I then got a text from a new school-mum friend (DS had started Reception about a week before) saying she'd see me at home-time to sort out a day for DS to go and play with her son after school. I replied that I wouldn't be there that day, as I'd just done a 24-hour fast and I was feeling a bit wobbly. My phone, remembering the previous text, helpfully autocorrected '24-hour fast' to '24-hour fart' - and no, I didn't spot this until after I'd hit 'send'.

Some of these posts would be even better if the posters said what happened after the texts were read.

Not text message but dh has been NC with his dm for 4 months.
We were in the car the other day and I decided to ring my mum,I was driving.
Told my car to "ring mum" and after a while his dm answered.It had connected to dh phone! Instead of mine.
I hung up and she didn't ring back so hopefully she thinks it was a pocket dial.

this has me CRYING laughing 😭😭😭😭

I have form for this
Send text to exH in the middle of our split which was meant for a colleague I'd drunkenly shagged. Managed to pass it off as my mates oissing about.
Sent message in works chat slagging off colleague
Sent message to whole department calling the work we'd been given as a load of crap.

I'm paranoid what I text/type email now

Accidentally sent a colleague a text meant for my DP with details of the threesome we were busy organising.

I mean, that’s just bloody weird. I hope somebody called you out on that

😱😂😱😂😱

This is outing to my friends - but about twenty years ago when I was young and single I went out on a night out with work, got bladdered, and lost my keys. I texted my flatmate at the time saying I was really pissed, had lost my keys and he'd have to let me in. Unfortunately I sent it to a load of random people in my phone back including my boss, on his work phone - had no idea. At that time our work voicemail had a facility where it read out texts to you. Next morning I turned up to work a bit bleary eyed, my boss came in and started listening to his messages, said 'oh I've got this weird message' and played it - it was a robotic sat nav type voice reading out my text message. I was cringing into the floor but he was crying laughing (as was everyone else!)

Ha ha ha ha 😂

In the old days of Nokia phones a friend once sent her boyfriend Dan a message saying 'I'm on my way round to give you a blow job'. Except she sent it to 'Dad'... who was a vicar.

I'll never forget the look of abject panic.

Ha ha ha 😂

My ex once left his underwear in my bed so I texted him at work to tell him all about what I was doing with his pants. Only I actually texted my sister.....😱😱😱

You should disabuse him of that!

I had a Nokia years ago (pre smartphones) that could recall rest messages for about 10 seconds after you pressed send. That feature saved me more than once! Never understood why it didn't become a thing 🤔

Just last week I got a text off the school mobile saying that after-school club was cancelled for the last week of term. Forwarded it to DH and then followed up with 'For fucks sake'. Only somehow I'd gone back to the original message so sent that to school instead 😳

My DH foolishly left our (then) toddler with his unlocked phone to play with. She managed to text his boss a string of jumbled letters, part of which had autocorrected to the word “wanker”. Thankfully the boss was not a wanker, assumed, from all the extra letters, that it was a pocket dial, and found it funny once given an explanation.