"Oh No- Wrong Person!": People Share Stories Of Damaging Messages Sent To The Wrong Person

Have you ever written that juicy message, that detail-filled message that is meant for your partner or best friend’s eyes only, and then bam…you sent it to the wrong person? In that one moment, it feels like the world has ended. Shame, guilt, embarrassment, all these fillings swell and threaten to overwhelm.

Well, this is exactly how these 45 people felt when they accidentally sent messages to the wrong people. Some of these stories will have you roaring in laughter while some will just have you cowering in second-hand embarrassment. Read on!

1. Oops!

My mom's boss was apparently not a very nice manager and fired one of her friends in the company. She then proceeded to text her friend who had just gotten fired something along the lines of "I can't believe [manager's name] did that! She's such a crazy woman!"

Turns out the phone my moms's friend had was a company phone that was returned to the boss after she was fired. My mom ended up somehow leaving the conversation with her boss the next day with a raise.

O_Baby_Baby

My roommate and I used to play a lot of video games late at night. We had a landline that I would send texts to occasionally, so a robot voice would speak the message to him. About two in the morning I wrote to tell him to get ready to play video games: "I'm going to kill you soon".

Unfortunately, the apartment was saved in my phone as "house" and my parents were in my phone as "home". I picked the wrong one and a robot threatened my parents with death in the middle of the night.

Froboz

A group of us went out drinking one night. My crush and this guy Ryan spent the whole night flirting but also trying to hide it because another girl in our group and Ryan used to date. You never date a friend's ex. Especially if you're in the same circle of friends. 

The night ended and we all went our separate ways. About an hour later I get a text along the lines of, "She's gone. Circle back." And I knew right away that text wasn't for me.

King_of_all_Dorks

One time I went out for a night with a buddy of mine. His wife already had plans, but he just wanted to get out of the house so he brought his 18-month-old daughter with him. We decided just to hit up a casino buffet because I had vouchers for 2 free meals. We get to the lobby and he needs to run to the bathroom to change his daughter's diapers.

My buddy comes from a family of really large people. He would be pretty fat as well, but he is a workout warrior, so he is thick, just not fat. Well, looking at his daughter you can see the genes come from his side of the family. She is pretty big for an 18-month-old.

So cut back to the lobby and I text my wife "That kid is going to be fat when she grows up"...except that text went to my buddy. I realized this about 30 seconds later when I went to text her again and saw the conversation with his name in it. In full-on panic mode, I send another text to "my wife" (to my buddy) "Your mom really needs to stop giving her (MY 4-year-old daughter) all those cookies after dinner".

He comes out of the bathroom and is about to go off on me I see he is staring at his phone. He then gets my second message and starts laughing that I texted him instead of my wife. I chuckle along and say "oops". The evening continues smoothly.

ExtremeSquirrel

I just received a message the other day from my buddy. He's always been a tough guy who doesn't show his emotions. the text read, "Hey baby I just want you to know I'm the luckiest guy ever and you mean the world to me love you xo" I replied, "What dude? I mean I love you too but what..lol?" 

Then a message was sent back saying “Oh snap, I am too drunk to send this properly it was for the woman I am dating”

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One morning my brother woke up to a message from his tough guy bro that said, "Good morning, sunshine! How're you feeling, babe?". My brother then woke up his girlfriend, who was in bed with him, laughing as he tried to call said the brother while still mostly asleep. The text had been meant for his friend's girlfriend, who was sick.

My brother and his then-girlfriend, now wife, still call the guy "sunshine" to mess with him.

Gingerfer

My cousin meant to send "Get off of that girl" to me, to tease me about the girl I was dating and, presumably, all over. 

Instead of sending it to me, he actually texted it to some random guy who was apparently cheating on his wife. That caused a very long series of interesting texts and phone calls.  

What a strange coincidence.

Niflhe

My buddies and I had this habit of taking a picture of our turd while taking a dump and texting it to each other with a caption. I accidentally sent the pic to my mother-in-law with the caption "This is what I think about you", a series of unfortunate events developed soon after.

I honestly was not able to find a suitable explanation for that.

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My mom was being so mean to me one night, and I had been texting my best friend about it for a good couple of hours. Well, apparently my best friend was distracted when she was texting me (before conversation grouping was popular) and instead texted my mom all of the terrible things we had been discussing for a couple of hours..... this was in Sophomore? year of high school. 

My best friend was too embarrassed to come back to my house and face my mom until our high school graduation.  

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I was going to text my Ex, "I know we had a rough patch, but I think we can make this work, can I see you tonight." Her name was Brenda, but I texted by accident a person under Brenda who was my boss. My boss at my current job calls me 5 minutes later, asking what is the meaning of this. 

Before I can explain it was a mistake she goes on to tell me how she feels... Apparently, she had feelings for me. This really went in an unexpected direction.

OK4U2LOVE

I got arrested for drinking underage and did twelve weeks in a diversion program. I successfully kept it a secret from my overly protective mother the entire time. Until I dropped off the final paperwork and was told my record would be cleared. 

I tried to send my best friend (whose name was directly above my mother's in my contacts) a text saying “Just finished diversion”. I missed it and sent it to my mother.

Tankbeater

I was once slightly drunk and decided to type out a long lengthy reason as to why I was still in love with my ex-girlfriend and send it to her (because you know that's how you win a woman back). 

I sent it but apparently to the current girl I was courting. That didn't end too well. It was a very long heartfelt message and I had no way to redeem myself from that. I lost both of them.  

Nopornworkreddit

I once sent a super long text to my ex-boyfriend who never really broke up with me but he just dropped off the face of the earth. I was begging him to talk to me and I was telling him how much I missed and loved him. 

Sadly this text was sent to the guy I was having a friends-with-benefits relationship with. It was embarrassing because I already felt so pathetic and then I showed him how pathetic I actually was.

Anna-gram

I was at a concert, and looking for a place to sleep, so I texted an old friend with benefits. Turned out she had been thrown out by her parents, so that wasn't really an option. So I wanted to end the convo by sending her a picture of the concert. 

For some inexplicable reason, my phone sent it to my ex-girlfriend. And I, being the drunk and high guy that I was, didn't notice. She replied "Is that Hopsin?" or something. Still, I didn't notice. "Nope, but he's coming to Denmark pretty soon, wanna go?" I still didn't notice. "Yes!". And that's when I noticed. Oh No! 

Brosama220

A little backstory, my friend's dad is gay. He came out to her when she caught him watching gay intimate videos, but that's another story. She's cool with it, and so is the mom. They accept him and everything. He's currently single and trying to mingle.

So, cut to us hanging out with a few brews one Friday night. She gets a text message and it's a picture from her dad. "Hm, that's weird, what could this be......" And then silence. Followed by uncontrollable laughter. Turns out he was chatting up some younger man and exchanging pictures. She passed the phone around and it was her dad bent over wearing nothing but a thong. The accompanying message said something along the lines of "Whatever you want, babe".

Immediately, she gets a text begging her not to open the picture message. Then he ends up calling her, and while he's apologizing she is just laughing. It was the funniest, yet most awkward experience I ever witnessed. It is pretty cool though that they have that kind of relationship to laugh off something that would have mortified me coming from my own father.

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I got caught sleeping with my boyfriend by my mother and agreed not to sleep around in the house when she was home to be respectful to her. 

And of course to always be safe... Fast forward a few days, mom runs out to grab something and I text boyfriend, "Hey baby, my mom's gone out, will you be here soon? I'll be waiting in my room with nothing on"...mom texts back, "are you freaking kidding me?!?!?"

Sammyh88

"I think I just broke up with my ex-girlfriend a second time lol" I sent that with the intention that my best friend would receive it. 

My girl broke up with me earlier in the day and called me in the evening to say she never wanted to see me again. I sent that text to her by accident, she mistook it as me making a fool of her. Always check who it's going to!  

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I sent a text to my boss accidentally after she randomly showed up on-site to spy on me. Her name was Brenda...I tried to text my friend, Brad, it went something like this.

"That freaking woman just showed up on site and tried to bust me on whatever she could find, crazy woman!" I hit send, saw it was the wrong person, and removed the battery. She never mentioned it but the next day I could tell the text went through.  

Taintedzone

Oh man, I messed up big time once. A few years back in college, I had met a very sweet and attractive girl whom I was so very interested in dating, and somehow amazingly pulled off her number. I had been sort of flirty texting her one night, I forget what I had said, I believe it was something sarcastic but she responded sweetly with "Aww, do you need a hug?"

At the same time, I was texting a female friend I had with whom I had a very sarcastic and open friendship and was texting her about how excited I was with this girl. She jokes with me that I am going to mess it up somehow, and I tell her hey that is pretty mean where is my optimism. She sarcastically and wittily responds with, "Oh I hurt your feelings? Aww, do you need a hug?"

Now to the girl I was interested in, I wanted to send her something charming and sweet in return. Or even use this as my "in" to set up a date with her. I was within reach!

To my friend, I wanted to send something crass and witty. Disrespectful. So I sent to her, "Yeah you can hug my genitals... with your mouth"

I replied to the wrong girl. No explanation helped and I lost her. My friend thought it was hilarious.

Mybustersword

Not so long ago I sent a text to my friend, the night of her wedding, about how awful her wedding was. I meant to send it to another friend who happened to have the same name. 

I then proceeded to send the bride about 25 more meaningless, rambling texts in hopes that she would just stop reading them and never see the first text I sent. Maybe it worked? She never mentioned any of the texts.   CongressmanWalterP

My sister and I were prank-texting her old roommate, "Doug", with my new cell phone. 

We spent about 30 minutes texting him all this raunchy stuff pretending to be some girl he had slept with and didn't remember until I accidentally sent something to the effect of "I want to lick you all over." to "Dad" instead of "Doug". This effectively ended the prank texting.  

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My mom had asked my sister and me for a grey purse for Christmas, and that was my responsibility. After looking at like 10 stores and finding literally no grey purses, I sent a 100% kidding text to my sister saying "That old woman needs to find her own freaking grey purse lol." I sent it to my mom.

Needless to say, she didn't get the joke. Not only was she pissed, but because she didn't believe me when I said I was kidding (which I honestly was... I would never say that otherwise) she was incredibly hurt. She felt like she does stuff for her kids every day of the year, and finding a Christmas present for her was too much to ask. All in all, it was horrible.

Rthaw

One time I was at a friend's house and he told me a pretty amusing story. Later that night when I went home I wanted to text message my best friend and relay that story to her. Except... I added a few enhancements to make it funnier. 

Like, really far-fetched ones. And I accidentally sent it to the guy who told me the story in the first place. That is some true cringe. It was so embarrassing, our friendship was never the same.  

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I am taking a chemistry course this summer, and on Monday in class, I was texting my ex-girlfriend (we are still close) about this weird-looking girl who was wearing a shirt with a band my ex likes. The topic changed to me being hungry, and at that same time, my 11-year-old sister texted me and asked me if we could go to Panera for lunch after I was done with class. 

I then meant to text back my ex "Whatever, I will just eat you" as a joke, but I sent it to my little sister. Let's just say she was confused and slightly demoralized. Never going to live that one down.

HODAR16

I asked my boyfriend to check something on my phone while I was driving. He decided he'd take advantage of the situation by texting one of our friends "I want to lick you".

He was in such a hurry to send it that he didn't check who he was texting. He texted it to my uncle.

Wait! It gets worse! When I realized it, I told him to text him back right away to explain his "mistake". Anyway, fast forward to the week after, I finally see my uncle and apologize, but my uncle had no idea what I was talking about, he didn't check his texts for a while. He read it right in front of me. I was mortified.

Caxticles

My friend and I were hanging out with a girl named Brittany who was so freaking annoying. We wanted to go to a party without her. 

I texted my friend from across the room and said, "I'm going to casually walk outside, meet me out there in 10 minutes. Don't bring Brittany!!" I sent the text to Brittany. I felt so horrible.  

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My friend thought he sent a text to his SO: "Babe, I love you so much. You are everything to me. I think it is the moment to ask you about one important thing. Will you move to my place? I would be the happiest man in the world. I want to spend my life with you. " 

Seconds later his boss stands up and says, "Sam, I think I have to move your desk to other parts of the office. I don't feel comfortable sitting close to you anymore". 

Missszoo

I put together a rambling apology from a nasty fight I had gotten into with my SO, this text included details of the fight. In my extreme sorriness (nope I'm not Canadian) I mistakenly sent the text to my then-boss. 

Needless to say, things were awkward between us for the rest of my time at that job. Ugh, I still feel embarrassed about it just thinking about it.

Ishkabibbles84

When I was in my early 20's I used to work at a video store. There was a younger girl who used to work on busy Saturdays who was really nice. We would chat and watch movies on quiet days, etc.

She had my number because she often had to call me if she was going to be late etc. Anyway, I quit working there and forgot all about her until years later I'm at home and I get a text "I can't wait till I see you again and can lick you more."

I reply with "errm, hi, long time no see." Then I get back "Oh God! I'm so sorry! That was meant for someone else" then a pause and a second text of "Also, I'm gay. PLEASE don't tell anyone!". It was a pretty small town. I just replied with "Congratulations, your secret is safe with me" and chuckled for the rest of the day.

Kailoi

I sent my friend a text explaining how I had this huge crush on this girl but I ended up texting my crush. I knew this and quickly apologized to her but she didn't respond to both of the texts. 

Hours passed and my friend and I were talking about a weird fetish one of our friends had and I sent my friend the text explaining the fetish he had. I sent it to my crush again since I was texting her at the same time as him and her only response was "What is wrong with you, you creep!".

In the end, my crush thought I was a creep because she thought that I was the one with those fetishes.

Stevengodz

I had to back out of a prom date this year, and I didn't know what to say. I was texting this other girl and the date 

  I was about to bail on at the same time, and accidentally sent "So what should I say before I cut her heart out and tell her I would kill myself before I would ever go to prom with her?" I sent that to the girl I was about to bail on instead and tears were shed.

SouthpawMox

I was involved in a group project and was talking about someone in our group to another group member. They asked what they had said so I screenshotted the FB conversation on my phone and sent it to my friend. 

  However, I did this a second time and ended up sending a screenshot of the conversation to the guy I was talking about.

Padlockj

A Facebook message meant for my boyfriend whose name starts with a D was mistakenly sent to my brother whose name also starts with a D...

My ex-boyfriend had flown up to see me before Halloween and we dressed up as Zack and Kelly from Saved by the Bell and went to a few parties. After he left, Halloween actually came and when I put the costume back on I sent him a message saying "Every time I put on this 8th grade cheerleading uniform, I think of you," mostly meant to be funny and alluring at once.

However, it was instead sent to my brother (I'd like to blame the constant reloading of the "chat list" on Facebook at the time- when people log on and off- plus, a slow computer). I tried to correct my mistake and said I meant to send it to my friend Dana (who btw doesn't exist). He never responded and still has not mentioned it. I'm a bad person.

Goldeneye91

I had just recently started dating a new guy, and was texting my son and him at the same time (right after getting home from a date with him). 

  My kid had just done a huge favor for me and I sent a text that said "Thank you so much I love you MILLIONS!" The message was meant for my kid but I sent it to the new guy! This really made things AWKWARD!!!  

Lilbig_mama

I used to have a girlfriend named Emily, but I called her Emmy. I also have a cousin named Emma.

Emmy (my girlfriend) was away for the weekend visiting family and was getting frisky, and we ended up dirty texting. During the dirty texting, Emma had been texting me about her brother's surprise party. Needless to say, I ended up sending Emma a message along the lines of "I want to mess with your brain." She was 16 at the time. Thank god it was that and not the explicit picture I had just sent Emmy.

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I was in the back seat of a car with a girl who was really annoying the hell out of me, so I texted a friend, "Patricia is really annoying the hell out of me." As soon as I hit send I realized I had accidentally sent it to the girl sitting next to me. 

  I snatched her phone out of her hand and made up some crazy excuse about wanting to compare our two phones, waited until she got my text, deleted it sneaky snake style, and gave it back.

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I had been planning a date with my girlfriend who has the same name as my sister I am 23 my sister is 25. I put their names the same way in my phone instead of adding a last initial or something. 

I sent to what I thought was my girlfriend, "Hey I was thinking we should go eat somewhere fancy today." She replies "Really? That's random but okay, where did you want to go?" I tell her where we are going and she says "Alright when are you picking me up?" I say at 5 o'clock. Then she says okay sounds good and I say "Alright I'll see you then love you". Then she said "aww, you never say things like that I love you too baby brother!" 

Then I realized it was my sister. I felt bad after hearing how happy she was when I said I love you so I ended up just taking my sister and taking my girlfriend to the movies the next day. 

Sovietrussia92

My girlfriend was pissing me off and I was in the right for being angry. She wasn't responding to my calls and was blowing me off. 

I sent a text to my friend complaining about it all but I accidentally sent it to my girlfriend and that really sped up the process of us breaking up. Looking back on it I'm pretty happy that that happened.  

FlynnScifo

I'm a youth pastor. I was texting my, then-girlfriend, and was also answering a question from one of my youth group girls who was asking about a camp we were going to. 

What I thought I sent to my girlfriend was, "You're lucky you are cute or I would totally not put up with that." Lots of back peddling with a 16-year-old high school girl. It was so awkward.  

Mathollen

When my brother first started dating his wife, he was working a night shift and decided to text her. Except he made the mistake of texting her landline at around 2 am. 

  In his text, he described all the dirty things he was going to do to her. Since he texted her landline, her mom was awoken by a text-to-voice phone call from a robot describing what it was going to do to her.

It's brought up almost every month.

Enrique37

I'm on this date with this guy I met at a bar. We ended up going back to his place to watch a movie since we got bored with the bar and I couldn't drink since I drove. We're sitting in his living room and I get up to use the bathroom and take my phone with me. I get a text saying "Dude, don't come home anytime soon. 

I'm about to score." It was meant to go to the guy's roommate instead of me.   

I felt so embarrassed for the guy that I pretended not to get it, and told him that I had to leave because I had work early. Never saw him again.

Alexandruh

I was texting my girlfriend at the time, and she had had a really hard day at work and there was some drama going on with her sister. 

I sent that pic of Will Smith saying "Girl, does it look like I care?" to her instead of the buddy that it was supposed to be sent to. It took a few minutes and I wondered why she hadn't texted for a little bit for me to realize my mistake. When I called to explain myself and grovel for forgiveness she was crying.  

MasterColossi

When I was 13, me and my friend were hanging out at my house and my mom left me to watch my little sister and her friends (I will have you know that I've had to watch her every summer since I've been old enough to stay home alone) and I got pretty pissed off because I had to cancel my night plans. 

I went to text my friend "What am I, the freaking nanny?" But I was thinking about my mom at that moment and I sent it to her by accident. 

Melonhead97

I was heading over to a friend's bday party in high school and texted her that I was on my way. I had gotten her number not too long before that, but unknowingly had a number wrong. I texted what I thought was her number saying I was on my way. No response, but she was probably busy.

I get there, it's a good time, yada yada yada. A month later I got a call from this girl and her friend asking who I was. I guess I happened to text the one girl's boyfriend saying I was on my way over and she happened to read that text. I listened for 5 minutes about how I was a bad person for having an affair with some guy I'd never heard of. 

I hadn't even kissed a boy at this age, let alone had an affair, so I was a bit taken aback. They called me a few times that night, not believing when I said it wasn't me. I didn't remember my friend's party and the text I sent till a few days afterward. Now I make sure to double-check numbers before I save them.

K1030p

I was just leaving to pick up my daughter from her Aunt's when I sent a text to my fiance, sitting right next to me in the car, saying that the Aunt's hairdo was "terrible and she looks like her freaking mother" (I was supposed to look at her hair and silently decide if I liked it or not). 

Needless to say, I sent it to the Aunt accidentally and she has not forgiven me and most likely won't. Luckily I don't care that much, I just don't want the kids to suffer the awkwardness

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