have you ever…
March 25, 2010
…accidentally sent a text or email to the wrong person?
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Yeah, but it wasn’t anything sensitive or anything like that. But still caused some confusion.
Yay! I had the first comment!
Oh yeah…many times. It’s a good lesson in humility most times. :)
I wrote a blog post venting about something only to have the people involved read what I wrote and contact me. EEEK!
Yes. It wasn’t as humiliating as it could have been
@dubdynomite says:
Not that I can remember. But I am extremely compulsive about checking and double checking the recipient.
I have, on the other hand, been on the receiving end of an errant twitter DM from one of my less twitter savvy friends. Let’s just say it was very personal. I did the only thing I thought appropriate in that situation; I deleted it and decided to disavow any knowledge of ever having received it. It was the least I could do to spare them some embarrassment and believe me, there would have been quite a bit if they knew I had seen that message.
@nateonamission says:
oh my. :s
Yep… a snarky E-mail about an old boss.
Instead of firing it off to my friend across the office, I sent it to my boss on accident and realized my mistake a millisecond after pressing ‘Send’.
Bad day at work.
Ouch!
@gritandglory says:
ouch is right! oh my dang… i think my heart would stop.
@hannahruthie says:
I have… pretended to send a text the wrong person. I let all of my feelings out, pretending that I was talking to someone else and in the middle of a conversation. Really, I was texting the person that I wanted to hear, but then I would text them again and say, “Oops, sorry! wrong number!” even though it wasn’t. I wanted them to think it was an accident. It probably just confused them even more.
oops! :]
oh, the silly things I did in high school!
ooooooooooooh i LOVE this!!!
woah! that’s super clever! haha.
gotta admit, i did a similar thing via e-mail to get someone to confess to something… also back in high school.
@randishort says:
Yes. Many times.
One moment (I can’t believe I’m sharing this… Ha!):
my brothers gf and I worked at the same place. She annoyed me immensely this one particular day. We all lived together during that time as well.
Anyway, we were sharing a cab and I texted my brother to let him know that I wouldn’t be home for dinner, because of how annoyed I was… And that he should maybe make something for them.
Press “send”
She picks up her phone and looks at me.
Oops!
@gritandglory says:
yikes!
I keep trying to write my professor, and end up forwarding it to my whole class. *keep* As in… present tense.
I once replied to one of my employees when I meant to send it to someone else. The employee I sent it to was referenced in the email. It was a humbling time.
I also have told multiple people via text that “I Love Them” thinking I was telling my wife.
Opps.
yes, i have. about my boyfriend TO my boyfriend. oops!
yes yes yes!! i was trying to warning a friend of mine that a guy who was interested in her was heading to her house…i accidentally sent it to him. why do i try to get involved in things that i have no right getting involved in??!!
Nope.
Uh, yeah. Sent an email forward of “calendar guys” and my step daughter was accidentally one of the recipients. Prob was, she was maybe 12 or 13 at the time, and her (psycho) mom saw it. Big uh oh for me. Let’s just say my hub was NOT happy either. lol
Oh, and to be clear, there was no nudity, just flesh and muscles, but the implied sentiment of the shots was, well… :) sweaty.
Complained about a disappointing Ebay experience to my mom…. but actually sent it to the Ebay seller. Who promptly wrote me back a nasty email. Ruh roh.
Not really, but sometimes I accidentally end up calling someone when I really meant to call someone else. I get all startled and flustered when the “wrong” person picks up the phone and sound really, really stupid until I can wrap my mind around what happened.
@gritandglory says:
i’ve done that too! and then i try to play it off like i’d meant to call them… ::blush::
Yep. September of last year I meant to send a text to my husband’s brother saying something like, “Shawn’s about to score. He’ll need to contact you later” (my husband’s brother and I have a very odd relationship)…..but instead of sending it to my brother-in-law, I ended up sending my husband’s uncle. Yikes.
That’s a crawl under a rock moment. Oh, dear! What did the Uncle say?
Since my husband plays video games, I think I sent an additional text message saying something like, “Oh sorry – that was meant for Jonathan. Shawn is playing a video game right now”. We never heard from him, so we’re hoping he has forgotten about it. If not, we’ll find out at Christmas time. lol
@gritandglory says:
this cracked me up!
Yes, but my friend was understanding, thankfully. I sent an email to a friend named Carol about another friend named Carol, whose husband had just been put on hospice care. I was asking her to pray for the family. Well, I sent it to the wrong Carol. I was horribly embarrassed, but she appreciated the sentiment behind the email. I am MUCH more careful now.
yes, but it was a harmless MOPS email to the wrong people. We have a Shannon and a Michelle and I have several of those in my addresses…. I forgot to double check. My friend Shannon sent it back saying, sounds like fun but I think you’re sending this to the wrong Shannon. hahaha!
We have gotten picture texts and word texts from people though that were wrong. One was a little girl about 11 (so they said) and she was horribly rude to the point that I had to tell her to STOP texting us back (after we said repeatedly it was the wrong number) and that who we were or where we lived was none of her business. She then texted me AGAIN saying that I must be a really mean person to be so mean to a little girl. haha! The whole thing was hilarious and quite stupid. One was a picture of a woman, just her face, and she texted back something about how it was good she wasn’t easily embarrassed.
A friend of mine recently got texted a half naked picture of a woman she didn’t know. Imagine getting that from a stranger! Imagine SENDING THAT to a stranger! hahahaha!!!!
People are weird.
@traceepersiko says:
Still my most embarrassing moment! I was texting my friend as we were discussing annual results. Instead of texting my friend, I accidently Texted my client. Awesome!
@gritandglory says:
this whole thing still makes me laugh really hard!
@moweezle says:
unfortunately yes! I sent an sms reply to someone that I was very upset with for totally blowing me off at a Thanksgiving I was hosting, but instead of sending it to just him I hit reply all! It was horrible!
@maryjohess says:
Oh.my.word. YES!!!!
Once during a real estate deal, the buyer I represented was WEARING ME OUT with all their negative, whiney, unable to please them crap. So I sent a text to my hubby to totally vent about it. And I was VENTING girl. VEN-TING! (with some not so nice adjectives and phrases)
Well, her name was right under hubby’s name in my address book and YEP. I sent it to her.
Luckily, when she got it, she was with me and said, “Oh! I have a text from you” I grabbed her phone and said, “What?!?” She didn’t have time to read it. So I read it (with heart pounding) and hit her delete button.
I said, “Oh. That was meant for my husband. Glad you didn’t see that” and winked. She said, “Oh! Gotcha!”
And then I asked God to FORGIVE me for that mess and I have never ever ever done that again. I save my venting for IN PERSON. Yikes!
I love this! So great, and QUICK save!!!
Oh man… I’m smiling as I reread the comment. Well done! :)
@gritandglory says:
holy crow! nice save!
Ha ha… Definitely! At least the last time I did that, I just sent the message for my mom to my dad’s phone, so that one wasn’t so bad.
And, I actually got one the other night. It was a one-word text, so it wasn’t anything bad… just confusing, since I had sent a text to the person about something completely different.
on the day my grandfather died, i tried to text a co-worker friend to tell him and ended up tweeting the entire twitterverse instead!
grief + sms = not good
@Nomadstacey says:
I don’t recall a time I’ve sent a wrong message. However, I’ll email you an awkward story (try not to be surprised)!
Not that I can think of. But I have “pocket” called enough to last a lifetime. During some pretty um funny times. Let’s just leave it at that.
@Nomadstacey says:
I used to pocket call in the car…had a few friends tell me they loved the sing-a-long-to-the-radio voice message they got from me…
@gritandglory says:
awesome, stace!
@atangie says:
hmmm…. sounds like you have a story to share that inspired this post. I am all ears.
@gritandglory says:
i kinda wish i did! but nope… no story! just throwing it out there for some lively discussion! (and the gang didn’t disappoint! ha!)
Yes, but nothing that was a big deal. This is my greatest fear. At work I deal with lots of sensitive information. When I am sending something confidential I check the TO: list obsessively.
@cassgirl says:
Yup… just yesterday….
haha, Mine isn’t so embarrassing, We had an office IM-type program at my last job. I accidentally responded to a female coworker in the box with the convo I was having with my male supervisor– I told him, “I have some deodorant that you can use”. Needless to say, he was confused! I was just going so fast with work and the IMs that I didn’t check, but a “whoops, wrong box!” seemed to clear things up!
Ya…I have sent some texts meant for my husband to my sister…..nothing juicy though :-)
I don’t have any super awkward stories like some of the ones above!
However, just recently I have been on the receiving end of having someone think they ignored my call when they actually answered it…and then I proceeded to hear this person share personal information of mine that I am totally insecure about to some strangers I didn’t know. THAT was hard to hear and hard to get over….hearing what someone close to you really thinks when you aren’t around and they don’t think you can hear….
@gritandglory says:
oh man… ouch. that hurts.
no but i’ve been on the receiving end of some pretty hilarious ones!
@PrudyChick says:
Oh yes. Many times.
IM’d a friend mushy, gooshy i love yous, that were meant for hubby.
@PrudyChick says:
A friend of mine accidentally texted her mom, whom she thought was her husband, about getting her some furry lingerie while he was over seas in Romania on an Air Force training mission.
@gritandglory says:
my eyes got huge as i read this!
I have once, but it wasn’t a big deal. Sent a work file to the wrong person, but it was nothing important. I have, however, seen plenty of “reply to alls” where there should have been just a “reply.” Whole lotta oopses there, so I am freakishly careful. And yesterday my mother-in-law texted me “Are you going tonight?” to which I replied, “Not anywhere I think you’ll be?” since we live 5 hours away. Again, nothing interesting.
Multiple times. One led to a Define-the-Relationship (DTR) talk with someone. One recently may have burned a potential friendship bridge. I hate that my phone only shows numbers on texts and not the name of the person I am sending it to then.
@Nomadstacey says:
Time for an upgrade =)
I’m sure I have, but since I can’t remember it obviously wasn’t too disastrous.
But, I am PARANOID about this! PARANOID. Like I check and double check and triple check my phone…and then when I’m sure I sent the text to the right person, I delete it.
Perhaps I need some professional help? ;)
@gritandglory says:
i do the same thing! i’ll join you in therapy…
@bahava says:
I’m pretty sure I have, but I don’t remember anything bad coming of it….but I’ve also sent an e-mail twice–thinking I had not responded only to figure out that I really had…oops!!!
Oh yes…but thankfully it was nothing bad so I was alright:)
@christielici0us says:
A couple of jobs ago, I got a nasty email from one of our sales reps. It was hateful and accusatory and, in general, confirmed all the reasons why I didn’t like her.
I wanted my boss to see the email, so I decided to forward it to him. I included several comments about the sales rep, including a laundry list of her faults and reasons why she was so difficult to work with.
Problem was, I didn’t “forward” it to my boss. Absent-mindedly, I’d hit “reply” so guess what? My email went to the sales rep, NOT my boss!
How embarrassing!
But thankfully, some good came out of it. After reading my message, she was able to see all the areas where she could use some improvement, and knowing how I felt about her allowed her to come to me and ask for a sit-down to iron out our issues.
In the end, she became my favorite of all the sales reps at my company. Not long after she left to take a job elsewhere, I did the same thing.
So sometimes, a screw-up can have a happy ending! :)
DM sent live from Twitter via text message.
Big mistake. Huge.
@gritandglory says:
oh i’ve done that too. i hate that you can’t just hit reply when a DM is texted to you! it’s all too easy to mess that one up!
I sent an email to my boss saying what an idiot my boss was….should have gone to my sis-in-law. I left that job pretty shortly after that…
@gritandglory says:
oh my dang, i think that might make me throw up!
@kamriereed says:
I have definately done that but luckily nothing bad but mostly just embarrasing stuff.
Ooooh yes. Funny story about that… :)
The story of how things escalated to this point is another matter, but I once sent a text message to my then supervisor about how things would be so much easier if a co-worker of mine would just resign and let us do the work ourselves so we could do it right… except… you guessed it… in my moment of text-messaging fury I actually sent the message to said co-worker. Yeah. It wasn’t pretty.
As soon as I sent it, I was watching my supervisor and her phone didn’t go off. As soon as I realized she didn’t get the text, I realized what I had done. One quick glance at my phone confirmed the deed had been done, followed quickly by a horrible sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. I think I immediately felt what it must have felt like to have been on the receiving end of such a text message. I felt horrible that I could have made someone feel that way.
I quickly called my co-worker, apologized and also took the opportunity to give context to what had gotten me to the point of sending that text. While they did accept my apology, they did not offer to take responsibility for the dropped balls that left our team uncovered and looking foolish, thereby resulting in my poor decision to send the text message. Oh well, it is what it is. My desire to apologize and be truly sorry for what I did was not contingent on whether or not they would accept responsibility for their actions. Those things were separate. I was sorry and I meant it. I have NEVER forgotten about that!
Yes… oh shame.
I don’t even know if I should mention it on here. It was online and it was something not necessarily nice about the person I messaged it to and I felt so horribly horrible. Totally messed up and God showed my why I should never think or feel or say anything that doesn’t glorify Him. Although I was in more of a embarrassed and i-can’t-believe-i-actually-did-that state, I was definitely shown grace and forgiveness for it which was a blessing in itself.
@coloraturajoy says:
omigosh, yes!!!
once, i got mad at my hubby and threw a tantrum just before leaving for school. then i tried to text him an apology (a long, semi detailed apology)…and i sent it to twitter.
he called me and told me, and then quickly deleted it for me, but i received SO many “are you okay” DM’s, it’s not even funny. :blush:
Not a classic story, but the best I’ve got….
A friend on facebook posted photos from her wedding, and in one of them my date was looking particularly hideous. (Really bad moment; made her look like a cross-eyed mule with bad overbite.)
So I e-mailed the photo to my date, except I accidentally sent it to a mutual friend with the same name.
So here’s the cool part. I phoned said friend, and asked her to delete the message without opening it. Which despite her curiosity she did.
I later found out it didn’t matter, my date couldn’t see the picture either because of the privacy settings, but it was a little embarassing.
Wait, I just remember another one.
I sent a slightly rude text message about someone to my sister, and she responded while I was driving that person somewhere, so I gave the phone to them to read the message to me.
Luckily they didn’t understand her response, but my heart stopped while they were reading it.
@gritandglory says:
that could’ve ended much worse… phew!
oh my goodness….yes!
it was terrible
let’s just say it made the last few weeks of an already tense situation in India even more awkward. Humility is a hard thing to learn, but learn it, I did