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These 37 Stories Of People Sending The Wrong Message May Induce Secondhand Embarrassment
The human brain is like a machine that occasionally glitches. Sometimes, the words in your head may not come out the way you intend them to. And it could lead to a hilariously embarrassing moment that you may not be able to shake off for a while.
Here are examples from people who experienced them firsthand. We’ve all been there, and as cringeworthy as they are, we will eventually end up looking back with laughter.
If you’ve been in this situation recently, feel free to share your experience in the comments.
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#1
I once apologised for any incontinence this may have caused
UnclePanda 5 hours ago
I had to take a group of county commissioners to task over a contract issue and just as my finger was dropping to hit send, I realized I'd left an "o" out of the subject line "Attn County Commissioners." It turns out the letter "o" can be pretty important.
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#2
I was texting back and forth with a guy selling a space heater online. I then started texting with a friend about the weird things we do in the doctor’s exam room while waiting for the doctor to come in. I texted “I always hide my bra and underwear under my clothes when I see my gynecologist.” I received a text back “that’s nice but are you still interested in the space heater?”
#3
I once emailed a colleague who wasnt very tall and instead of finishing the email' see you shortly' I wrote 'see you shorty'
#4
I’m a nurse, I was writing a message to a doctor and my ? key got stuck, I sent “What are your thoughts????????????” He replied “first let’s calm down”
#5
once I wanted to thank my professor for his message and instead of writing "thanks once more" it autocorrected to "thanks, for once"
Janissary35680 16 minutes ago
I make a point of disabling autocorrect whenever there's an option to do that. I'm of two minds about autocomplete. It's a useful but dangerous tool.
#6
I once accidentally misspelled Kind Regards’ and unfortunate ‘t’. I work in a disability dept.
#7
I accidently sent an email it signed it off “please hesitate to reach out “ I forgot the don’t
#8
I once wrote “please help me with the blow.” (Was meant to say “below” as it was a chaser email)
#9
I was replying to a customer regarding our hours… it corrected yes maam to yes mama.
Rali Meyer 12 hours ago
this auto correct as you press send (on Android only?) is a night mare. I switched all predictive text and it's aunts off. Rather have a simple spelling errorrrrr
#10
Ugh once I emailed one of my clients on a Friday saying “have a lonely weekend” instead of a lovely weekend
#11
I like to write strongly worded emails to people and not send them. They get UGLY and it’s extremely therapeutic. I often times edit them over and over until my rage turns level headed. Do it. I highly recommend it.
Except don’t put their actual email address in, or don’t save them for ever and ever. Or at the very minimum don’t accidentally pocket email your last 20 drafts to unsuspecting supervisors, CEOs, colleagues, parents, preachers, and friends.
#12
i once tried to email my teacher saying i was sick. my brain thought 'i am is the sickness me is not will be in asparagus' is a proper coherent sentence (im guessing i meant to say appologies at the end there) yeah i was sick af
Mrreoww 5 hours ago
I had a terrible migraine once and my mom was asking me some questions about how I felt. I understood what she was saying but…I couldn’t respond. I had temporary aphasia or something and I simply could not get the right words out. I think I began babbling at some point. Luckily, I was sick once or twice and then the aphasia disappeared.
#13
My partner and I were actively trying to get pregnant and I had just taken an ovulation test. Decided to text him saying “want to make a baby tonight?”…sent the text to my dad. Worst foreplay ever.
#14
Signed “kinky,” instead of “kindly,”
#15
I had messaged my wife's best friend earlier, but later in the day, I MEANT to text my wife, "We should fool around tonight!" But, I sent it to her friend instead. She responded with, "We should probably ask [wife] first."
#16
My husband was an enrollment counselor for a college. He messaged this girl “I am you”
#17
My colleague sent one of our clients “first name, apologize.” Instead of “I apologize.”
#18
When I was 16 I got a text asking could I babysit for a lady. I had no credit on my phone so borrowed my friends to say I could do it but text “hey it’s me, yes I can baby” I tried to correct it and sent the exact same message twice.
#19
I work in communications and on my resume I accidentally had “excels at pubic relations” instead of public relations
#20
One time I emailed my professor and wrote “a sad, miserable, depressing life” in the subject line as a joke and forgot to change it before I sent it
UnclePanda 5 hours ago
On the day of my thesis defense, the Word of the Day calendar said "Perdition, the utter loss of one's soul and happiness." So I took it to the defense and led with it as I thanked them for coming.
#21
I once texted my boss (I’m a teacher) I had to leave early bc my 2 year old had diarrhea… accidentally just put “had to leave… had diarrhea” and put the big emphasis effect on “had diarrhea” on accident
#23
I’ve sent multiple emails back to back with just “hello” because I kept forgetting hitting enter would just send the email instead of skipping a line
#24
I emailed a job but I thought when u press edit it does the original I sent them 30 emails of different versions I didn’t get the job
#26
When my alarm went off one morning, I picked it up in my sleep and texted the floor sister, ‘I would rather be victorious than curtailed’ 😂 I woke up just as I sent it and I have no idea what I was dreaming about.
Beak Hookage 8 hours ago
The existence of a floor sister implies the existence of a wall brother. And maybe a dad ceiling.
#27
I just had finished taking a test and I didn’t think I did the best on it. I went to text my mom “well, that was a mistake” and this was at the time Facebook would send you text reminders to tell people happy birthday/ you could post on their wall with a text…. Ended up posting that on some guy I went to high school with’s wall on his birthday.
#28
When my wife found out she was pregnant, I snapped a pic of the ultrasound and was going to send it to my sister. Unfortunately I fat fingered it and clicked the wrong name. That's the story of how the first person to find out about my wife's pregnancy was my former boss. Not catastrophic but definitely awkward.
#29
I accidently put in a delivery order while typing a note to "please leave order at the door" and had not added the tip yet. so it just said "please leave" with no tip. I was mortified
#30
Received an email from one of my managers when I worked in a hospital that literally said: "Hi Reth, for your information. Kind regards " and the best bit is it was 100% unprompted there wasn't even a prior thread
#31
I sent off part of my dissertation during my degree and signed my name as “shoe” because I didn’t notice it autocorrected my name
#32
Autocorrect once changed my text to met vriendelijke groenten instead of met vriendelijke groet. The first one translates to with kind vegetables and i meant to say ‘with kind regards. 😰. Inly noticed the mistake after clicking send.
#33
I once messaged my therapist from an afters at 4am when I had an appointment at 11am. with “Hi Too tired 👍”
#34
one of my friends wanted to send a message to our professor and it was already late so she wanted to write "good evening" but she accidentally wrote "good night" and sent it before she realized
#35
I texted the intensivist one night and tried to send the thumbs up emoji but ended up sending one with a different finger up.... he called
#36
I accidentally mailed my professor 4 times (the same e-mail), because my mail was glitching. I sent a fifth mail to apologize…
#37
I have a friend who was involved in a criminal organisation in his past. He’s an old man now, so he’s not very good with technology, like texting and stuff He decided to write out this long, heartfelt message meant for a woman. But getting confused with the phone, he accidentally sent it to this gangster type fella he knew I thought that was hilarious
What do you think ?
Bored Jellyfish 14 hours ago
Well, between autocorrect and misfires due to trying to hold more than one text message conversation at the same time, I think we’ve all been there. Got a good laugh with some of these!
Robert T 2 hours ago
Best one I saw was when someone was saying they would take part in a meet on a car forum. They meant to say "count us in", but they missed the first 'u'. And then the rude-word censor masked it (and unlike the BP one, it only worked on profanities), which only served to highlight it. LOL
Bored Jellyfish 14 hours ago
Well, between autocorrect and misfires due to trying to hold more than one text message conversation at the same time, I think we’ve all been there. Got a good laugh with some of these!
Robert T 2 hours ago
Best one I saw was when someone was saying they would take part in a meet on a car forum. They meant to say "count us in", but they missed the first 'u'. And then the rude-word censor masked it (and unlike the BP one, it only worked on profanities), which only served to highlight it. LOL
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