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Icyalittle Wed 01-Mar-17 08:05:34

And it's hardly 8 o'clock yet. I was writing a text to my DD whose family all have colds when one popped in from BT canvassing my opinion on a scale of 1-5 on a recent engineer visit. You guessed it - I accidentally pressed send, and told them 'No worries, germs are everywhere'. ? confused confused confused
Anybody else done anything similar? (Not necessarily today!)

MawBroon Wed 01-Mar-17 08:07:02

At least you didn't say Germans or viruses grin

Icyalittle Wed 01-Mar-17 08:08:36

grin Especially as he was Polish!

thatbags Wed 01-Mar-17 08:12:43

Good one, icy! grin grin

Rinouchka Wed 01-Mar-17 08:49:27

I am laughing over my coffee. Did something similar not too long ago with hilarious results!

Icyalittle Wed 01-Mar-17 09:01:24

Go on, Rinouchka, do tell?

Icyalittle Wed 01-Mar-17 09:03:23

MawBroon if I'd said viruses, I would probably be investigated for cybergrime.

Icyalittle Wed 01-Mar-17 09:03:37

Cybercrime even!

Icyalittle Wed 01-Mar-17 09:05:01

Cybergrime - what on earth IS that?
I think I had better stay home today.

Teetime Wed 01-Mar-17 09:06:40

Is cybergrime when DH moans that I never clean my keyboard and screen.

MissAdventure Wed 01-Mar-17 09:11:51

I received a text from my sister, meant for her husband, telling him she was waiting impatiently in bed for him..blush

annodomini Wed 01-Mar-17 09:42:15

grin Thanks for that, Icy. I almost choked on my breakfast tea.

moobox Wed 01-Mar-17 10:16:52

My sister wrote me an email complaining about her daughter's head teacher, and by mistake sent it to........... you can probably guess who! The only lining to the cloud was that she felt it was righteous indignation she had expressed

radicalnan Wed 01-Mar-17 10:17:41

Talking to a colleague in e mail stream, I once said ;Richard must think we are both idiots to fall for his sold tricks'.....copied him in of course........

NemosMum Wed 01-Mar-17 10:21:07

grin love this thread

Grannyknot Wed 01-Mar-17 10:23:53

I received a text at a conference from a lesbian colleague about how much she loves me and then some (it was a 2 day conference and we were all staying overnight). Much wine had been consumed that evening I panicked (her room was across the corridor from mine) until I remembered that her partner's name starts with the same letter as mine... grin.

She was extremely embarrassed and apologetic at breakfast the next morning.

Lilyflower Wed 01-Mar-17 10:25:56

I once sent a highly sarcastic note to my DH about my stroppy sister - and sent it to her. Well, I thought I had but it turned out I had not. I had sent it by pressing 'reply' to him rather than 'forward' to her so the comment only reached the DH.

Unfortunately I had already sent a mollifying comment to the DS which completely mystified her and alerted her to my misdeed.

Serves me right. I have learned nothing though about being less sarcastic, I am only a little more careful about my addressees.

kathcraigs Wed 01-Mar-17 10:26:49

l once sent a text to a work colleague who had the same first name as my partner.
Thank goodness it wasn't too bad....

meandashy Wed 01-Mar-17 10:44:11

I sent a text to a friend about a guy I was dithering about. I really liked him but had been single for a while and questioned his motives.
I sent it to him!!! Sooooo embarrassed! I did have a brief relationship with him but my instincts were right!
I sent a text to my (then) partner saying good morning, love you, in fact I'd sent it to my boss ? who thought it was hilarious ?

Womble54 Wed 01-Mar-17 11:09:42

I once accidentally sent a picture of a man I liked to my entire mailing list. Oooops! Fortunately, he wasn't identifiable, and many of them couldn't open it because it was too large.

Barbarae Wed 01-Mar-17 11:21:34

My daughter once sent me an email complaining about her awful boss. I sent a reply saying "what a horrible woman". It went straight to my daughters boss because she had forwarded her email to me! Thank goodness I didn't say anything worse! Now I always make a new email if I'm going to pass comment! The horrible woman let her keep her job! Lol

Blinko Wed 01-Mar-17 11:23:45

Laughing lots at all these mis-sent texts and emails. Great thread, cheered me up no end grin

Lewlew Wed 01-Mar-17 11:23:53

I got a business one meant for another client where the web designer was charging them less for work similar to our shop's... he had to back down and give my boss the same deal. YAY! grin

Emptynester Wed 01-Mar-17 11:36:49

I suddenly noticed that my DS Headmaster kept smiling at me and stopping to talk to me when I was in the school (PTA duties) and it was only when I had to speak to him on a totally different subject, he confessed how flattered he'd been to receive my cheeky get well card when he was off recently! I don't know what was more shocking - the fact he thought it was from me OR he seemed interested! I then had to tell him it absolutely was not from me and it was then his turn to be embarrassed. He was so embarrassed and couldn't apologise enough that we both got the giggles to such an extent his secretary came in to see if we were alright. For days afterwards I kept bursting into laughter at the most inconvenient times, and even now I can feel my cheeks getting red, and I didn't even do anything.

annerogers Wed 01-Mar-17 11:41:21

I was mortified and worried I had given the wrong impression when I put kisses at the end of a text to the window cleaner so I sent another apologising for said kisses. I made sure I was out when he called round next blush