Have You Ever Sent a Text to the Wrong Person?

yes, and to avoid that ever happening again, I now type the message first and then add the name of the recipient second. this way, I have a moment to think about whose name I am sending the message to......

lesson learned the hard way :)

Yep, I was texting my mom and my MIL at the same time. (sounds like this could get bad doesn't it?) However, my mom in not very tech savy and my MIL is. So, mom was pretty new at texting. So I sent my MIL a text saying how proud I was of my mom, and that she even used LOL (I was kinda making fun of her texting ineptitude) but sent it to mom. Luckily it wasn't too bad and mom laughed it off. Bah,, she knows she sucks at it.

Exactly why I only text when I need to...I know that ultimately, I would end up sending it to the wrong person. I sort of make it a rule to NOT gossip at all about anyone, for this reason; and the fact that once I caught my best friend talking about me behind my back and it made me feel awful, like I couldn't trust anyone, really brings home the thought that "if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all".....Hugs! B

umm.. yeah. Really embarrassing!!!

I texted my husband " I can't wait until you get home tonight, Im so horny! You aren't going to know what hit you". Then my Dad texted back and said.. " I don't think this is meant for me. Try it again, this time send it to Cody"

My Dad is below my husband's name in my phone. I couldn't look him in the eyes for over a week!! Every once in a while he will out of the blue look at Cody and say so do you know what hit you lately? Yeah still embarrassed, but at least we can laugh about it, he took it in good nature.

Yup, sure has! I believe it had to do with boobies. Meant for my husband, sent to my brother. ::sigh:: I try to block it out.

My older brothers girlfriend accidentally sent my MOM a text instead of my brother...she said "heeey about you come home for a quickie on your lunch break?"

My mom just called her laughing her butt off and said she would pass the message on to my brother haha

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No but dh did to my sister. We have kama sutra apps on our phone where you can send a racy picture of what your planning to do that night. Well big sister got the preview not me. My family's cool so it was funny but wow.

I don't text, but I did do something pretty embarrassing once.
I was working in the classified department at our local newspaper and a man came in and placed an ad for something that he was selling.
I entered the ad, let him proof read it, he said things were perfect.
So the ad ran as scheduled.
Two days later I got a call from a different guy letting me know that the phone number was wrong. He wasn't selling any such item, but it was his phone number in the ad. That was bad enough, but the guy who called was someone I had dated several months earlier who soon realized it was ME he was speaking to. I wanted to die.
He was really nice about it and asked how I was doing, etc. I couldn't do anything but apologize.
The phone number was exactly the same but the last two numbers got flip flopped and the guy placing the ad didn't even notice it. Then I had to call him to tell him I made the mistake and we would extend his ad for two days at no charge. He was wondering why no one was calling. I explained that they were, just the wrong person.
Whoops!
I don't know if the guy I had dated really believed it was an accident, but I swear it was.

One time when my daughter and I flew back to stay with my dad and stepmother, we were visiting while my step mom was in the bathroom getting ready to go to dinner and my dad referred to her by my mother's name.
You should have seen the look on his face.....like....Bury me now. I'm SO dead.
They'd been married for 20 years and it really was just a slip.
All she said was, "Ummm, wrong wife. The name's Audrey, honey, don't forget it".
She wasn't even mad, it was kind of funny.

Slip ups happen.

Like I said, I don't text so I don't have technical advice. Just be really, really careful what you say and where it actually goes from now on.

Best wishes.

Yes, I've done it and yes it's awful. I was IMing with my mom and dad at the same time, they have been divorced for years, and accidentally sent the IM to my mom that was meant for my dad, it was hurtful to my mom. Taught me to be VERY careful since.

my husband asked our trainer out to lunch instead of me....that was awkward.....

Uh-oh!
I have texted the wrong person once, but it wasn't like the worst case scenario like you mentioned. It was just a pretty mundane factual thing--not gossip.
Just call her and apologize asap--don't wait--she will feel even worse.

Ummm, wow. What a hard-learned lesson! Hope you have apologized, verbally, not via text.

I regularly send texts to my hubby that are intended for my sister. Thank God I don't send text meant for him to other people, or I'd be blushing too.

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Ummm, wow. What a hard-learned lesson! Hope you have apologized, verbally, not via text.

I regularly send texts to my hubby that are intended for my sister. Thank God I don't send texts meant for him to other people, or I'd be blushing too.

No, but it happened to my cousin. He and his partner of 10 years separated and he was devastated. About two weeks after he moved out of their condo, his phone "beeped" and it was a text from Christian saying "Had a great night last night... and this morning. Hope we can do it again soon." Apparently his new love interest's name was "Scott" which comes immediately before "Sean" in his phone.

It did not go over well. We can laugh about it now, but at that time it was pretty devastating!

Yes I have done it which is why I would never text anything about the people I am texting with at that time. Just asking for trouble if you ask me.

No, but my sister did that to me via an email. She was very concerned about a serious issue our relative was going through and emailed me a very brief and respectful message about her concerns, that were completely valid. Well, our relative got it and made it into this huge nasty thing. I'm certain she has clinical psychological problems, so we just cut her out of our life, b/c that woman is a dangerous lunatic.

Aside from that incident, I try to avoid discussing things like that unless it's really necessary and then only in person. When I do discuss matters like this, it is always to get to the issue so I can work it out and confront the person to mediate a resolution. Better not to gossip :)

If I have, it wasn't a big deal. I don't tend to text anything sensitive. But there is an entire website devoted to this particular phenomenon:
http://wrongnumbertexts.com/

My daughter (23 yrs) reads it faithfully and shares the best ones with me. It's kind of hilarious. Maybe you could be a contributor??? LOL

ETA - WARNING! Some of the entries on the above website are very raunchy.

I haven't done that, but I once got a really strange picture message from a man posing, lifting up his shirt and showing his abs. A few days later I got another picture of some kids (from the same number). I have no idea who these people are!

I've done this with emails.

My mother asked me to take her to a doctors appointment, while I was in town visiting a dying aunt....I asked my sister how do I politely decline, as she is so good at saying no to others and going on her merry way, and aren't there other people she can ask, b/c I'm only in town for a couple of days to say farewell to my aunt with terminal cancer....and my oops was that I hit "Reply" rather than forward..However, there was nothing mean in my tone, thank goodness.

So, getting caught gossiping can drive a wedge between you all for quite some time. Best to apologize up front, and say sorry that you weren't more direct with her about your thoughts or feelings. You were taking the easy way out by venting, rather than talking her personally. We've all done it. So hopefully this will soften her heart and you can go your merry ways soon.

yes i have. I've sent a text about someone to that same someone. Thank goodness it wasn't bad at all. I said something about have you heard from Rachel today? and sent it to Rachel. It was still wicked embarassing.

I don't know how to text two people at one time. That can be done?

The way the iPhone is set up, I don't think you could make a mistake like that. Great phone.

I've done it on emails quite a few tmes. One time it was a really long personal email and I sent it to my team lead. WOOPS!!! I haven't done it on text I don't think...

Yes! I've had it happen before a few times! At least I wasn't saying anything bad!
My husband had talked to to a lady at another branch of his work about a problem they had going on and after he hung up he got an IM (on his computer) from her saying how "OK had F'd up AGAIN and they were gonna have to fix THEIR mistakes again...!" Heehee my husband answered her back and she told him that's not what she was talking about.
Also, I LOVE the DYAC website. All it is is auto correct mistakes or messages that get sent to the wrong numbers lol!

oohh man - no!!

This would be totally embarrassing!!

I think I sent an e-mail out wrong once...sent it to the wrong person but it was a timing/interview issue..which isn't good in my business but it's only happened once..