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[r dub 19]

What is the worst or funniest message/email/msn/fb chat message you have sent or received that has been intended for someone else?

Personally I haven't had any major ones. My mate on the other hand was getting a girl to come over when another mate asked if it was happening, went something like this:

Mate 1: Is she going over yours?
Mate 2 (sends to the girl instead of mate 1): I don't know the bitch isn't f****** replying.
Girl: **** you.

 

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so my friend was pretty high on acid for the first time and decided to send a text to a friend who's name started with "M".

"M**** I'm tripping balls so hard"

a few minutes later he got a reply

"who is M****? love mum"

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

I went home to Hobart a few years ago for xmas.
I got a message from a UK number (+44) asking if I was up for a chat.
I assumed it was my English mate from uni as I didnt know any other Brits at the time.
So I replied along the lines of 'not now, but Im heading around to a mates place for a few cones, will be quality banter then'
Got a reply saying 'do you realise this is Dotty.'
Turns out it was my girlfriend's (soon to be wife's) Mother, who I had never met. She assumed I was with my gf and was hoping to speak to her.

Cue horror. Turned out she asked my future Brother-in-law (back in Scotland) what a cone was, he pissed himself and told her it was what Aussies call beers. I'd never met him either at the time, saved my arse.

We're getting married next month and Im bricking it that it'll come up at the wedding from one of my drunken mates. She still doesn't know what a 'a few cones' really means.

 

[bunsen burner]

Just last week when they announced the release of the .xxx domain i went to send home email address an email with some sites I would registers. So I had an empty email with 5 potential pron site names i would register and nothing else. Sent it to a client who is a husband wife team. Epic fail.

 

[nicky]

Years ago i sent my boss an email telling him that i liked him, it was meant to go to my friend.

I replied to all on an email dissing someone, it was meant to go to only a few girls.

I sent a guy at work a msn telling him how much of an idiot he was, it was meant to go to someone else. I didn't realise until he came up to me and asked me "why am i an idiot"

When text messages first came out my friend who had a private number thought that texts would come up as private. So he sent someone a few home truths.

I am the worst person for sending people messages not intended for their eyes. I have to be very careful about who goes in my phone.

 

[HSSB]

Years ago i sent my boss an email telling him that i liked him, it was meant to go to my friend.

I replied to all on an email dissing someone, it was meant to go to only a few girls.

I sent a guy at work a msn telling him how much of an idiot he was, it was meant to go to someone else. I didn't realise until he came up to me and asked me "why am i an idiot"

When text messages first came out my friend who had a private number thought that texts would come up as private. So he sent someone a few home truths.

I am the worst person for sending people messages not intended for their eyes. I have to be very careful about who goes in my phone.

Was the person you liked your gay neighbor?

 

[Football God]

Was the person you liked your gay neighbor?

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One time one of my mates was supposed to send a text to his gf and accidently sent it to me, was saying how much he loved her and misses her. 2 mins later he send me another msg saying f*** was meant for my gf.
f***ing funny as the next day i saw him.

 

[Ritchie8]

Sent a message to my brother (not living at home) asking if he was coming to my party on the weekend (parents were out of town). Was meant to send it to my mate of the same name. The bastard obviously ratted me out and the discovered the whole thing. Although it was too late for them, one smashed vase later and a hole in the wall.

 

[fryingpan]

This thread has potential

My partner at the time told me about something confidential that she didn't want anyone else to know as it was quite embarrassing. I told a close friend about it and somehow it got back to my partner.

Got a message from my partner saying "Hey, didn't tell Kim or anyone about what happened did you?"

I shat my pants because I knew if she found out I told anyone I'd be dead, so I quickly typed a message saying "Oi, you haven't gone around telling anyone about ***** and what happened have you? Just got a text from her and she is sus.." which I was meant to send to the friend I told, but forgot I pressed reply to the message my partner sent me and clicked send

As soon as I noticed my heart just sank .. the biggest feeling of hopelessness I have ever felt. She called about 10 times but I couldn't pick up the phone .. eventually got a abusive text and got dumped in the days follwoing.

 

[nicky]

Oh no fryingpan that is the worst one i've heard so far. You poor thing, I understand that feeling of dread and hopelessness.

 

[yeah_nah]

Its the worst when its so completely blunt. I've done one where my mate was having people over and i said
"don't invite Mr X, hes a ****" to Mr X

There is just no covering that up..

 

[nicky]

My friend rolled on her phone whilst she was cheating on her bf. It dialed her bf's number and he heard everything.

 

[r dub 19]

This thread has potential

My partner at the time told me about something confidential that she didn't want anyone else to know as it was quite embarrassing. I told a close friend about it and somehow it got back to my partner.

Got a message from my partner saying "Hey, didn't tell Kim or anyone about what happened did you?"

I shat my pants because I knew if she found out I told anyone I'd be dead, so I quickly typed a message saying "Oi, you haven't gone around telling anyone about ***** and what happened have you? Just got a text from her and she is sus.." which I was meant to send to the friend I told, but forgot I pressed reply to the message my partner sent me and clicked send

As soon as I noticed my heart just sank .. the biggest feeling of hopelessness I have ever felt. She called about 10 times but I couldn't pick up the phone .. eventually got a abusive text and got dumped in the days follwoing.

That is epic .

 

[Mr Gor]

^^ (2 posts up, damn people replying while i'm writing!)
she prob did it on purpose (if she's capable of cheating then she's capable of being a bitch about it too) and then just made that up to salvage what respectability she had left, if any.

Personally I don't have any stories I can think of, but I remember walking around one morning long ago to hear some "oh.. OHH, NOOOO" muffled kind of sounds coming from my older bro's room. Apparently he wrote a msg to his mate about some girl he hooked up with the previous night (in detail explaining what he got out of it), but sent it to the girl instead. The sounds obviously came from that brief period of time where the phone screen is showing nothing but the recipient's name and "sending message", and you can't do anything to stop it.

 

[Team Mo']

It's sad that Control + Z doesn't work with messages.

 

[nicky]

It's sad that Control + Z doesn't work with messages.

Control z should work for all aspects in life where applicable.

And we should have unlimited control z's up our sleave for any senario.

 

[ash_1050]

Have sent a message to a mate along the lines of "yeh but his missus will be there as well, how's it a boys weekend when he is under the thumb like that?" to said whipped mate. Surprisingly he took it pretty well and ended up coming along sans whip.

 

[Scootyb]

If the phone is in the middle of sending, could you take the battery out to stop it? I get pissed off when i send the wrong message to the wrong person but haven't had any bad ones

 

[chargers 09]

great thread, good way to get out of some of these situations is to pretend you did it as a joke.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Never done it in a text. When I used to use MSN years ago I sent one to a chick about slaming someone. Was supposed to go to a mate. She laughed it off which was good.

 

[Copernicus]

Some of the above posts are why I am very circumspect about what I write/text/say and to whom

better safe than sorry.

 

[magic_johnson!]

My phone when it says "sending to ........" has a cancel button underneath

 

[Darcy S]

My phone when it says "sending to ........" has a cancel button underneath

As does mine. Pressing the hang up button means it goes to the outbox and is not sent. Then I can just delete it from there

 

[Bowski]

Back in the day I got a message from my friend Dan asking how I went with with a girl he knew I fancied that he saw me with at a party.
I, being a dick, wrote a message along the lines of "well not that it's any of your business but I ploughed her harder than a field in Ireland during the famine"

Sent it.

My Dad soon sends me,
'Don't joke about the famine'


I'm curious to hear if anyone has ever recieved a message not meant for them.

 

[bresker]

One Sunday night, after I drank two bottles of wine and consumed some (drug reference removed on legal advice) I sat down and listened to the Sunday play on BBC Radio 3, a posh radio station.

It was really, really good. I can't remember what it was about as I was clean off my head. In fact I was so off my head I sort of decided I was part of the play. It greatly inspired me.

It inspired me so much that I sent some sort of directive in the form of a text message to many, many contacts on my mobile phone.

It read something like "Woo yeah! Fu** someone tonight or die trying!"

I'm the sort of person who never deletes contacts from his phone, so everyone got one. That ranges from former driving instructors, to close family members, to people I went to university with in 1995.

In return, I got a range of responses such as 'Who is this?' and 'What a load of old bollocks.'

Worse still, I carried on a weird text conversation into the night with one poor bloke I used to work with who I barely know.

I was more than a bit embarrased the next day