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Well, well, well. 10 months ago

This morning I sent a Facebook message to my best friend and her boyfriend. Later the friend replied and mentioned that her bf is mad about her moving to Hawaii. So I replied back telling her not to worry about him because he would be mad no matter where she is (since they fight all the time). Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that HE also received our messages because my original message was sent to both of them.

So my best friend called me and was really pissed off because her eggshell-sensitive bf was hurt by what I said. Never mind how her friends and family feel. It only matters what he thinks.

Anyway, have you ever had an email disaster like this? Where you sent something to the wrong person? How did you deal with it?

Aug 27, 2008, 04:56PM PDT | 2 cheers


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smartstuff a world of nouns

Oh. Man.

Wanna hear an email disaster story??

When I was about 16 or so, I sent a sexually provocative email to my boyfriend (or so I thought).

Thing was, I sent it from Hotmail. And at least, back in the day (I don’t know that they still do this) if you didn’t fill in the @address.com, it would auto-complete with @hotmail.

So yeah. Instead of going to my also 16-year-old boyfriend it went to a 30-something year old woman in Australia.

Totally awkward email exchanges ensued. If she had had any way of finding out who my parents were, she probably would have tried to make a fuss with them, too!

Aug 27, 2008, 05:42PM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

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Aug 27, 2008, 05:54PM PDT

melb100 is back, for the moment

I once

had to cancel a night out with a friend to go and make up with my (now ex-) boyfriend after a fight we’d just had over the phone. I was pissed off about missing the night out, so I sent my friend a text saying I couldn’t make it because Mr.boyfriend, as usual, was being a f*cking knob. A few minutes later I got a text back from Mr.boyfriend saying “I think you might have sent that to the wrong person”. Oops!

Aug 27, 2008, 06:50PM PDT | Respond to this 2 cheers

BeginingToBreathe can make a killer pizza ;)

never with an e-mail...

although I did have a little myspace hacker who happened to get onto a guys account that I was talking to (his ex gf, my best friend got into it) and read some messages that were harmless fun but it was not taken that way…she was mad at me for a while until we talked it out

Aug 27, 2008, 06:55PM PDT | Respond to this

~ Julie ~ is finding solutions

Not like your situation

but with emails that someone took out of context of what it was meant for and it snowballed from there.

Aug 27, 2008, 07:00PM PDT | Respond to this

Uncle Enore Christ...of the Stockton Christs.

OH...hell...

Just send another email telling him to get the fuck over it.

Aug 27, 2008, 07:03PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

smartstuff a world of nouns

Mmm... blatant antagonism

Yes.

That always works. ;)

Aug 27, 2008, 07:38PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Uncle Enore Christ...of the Stockton Christs.

Yeah.

It works for me.

Aug 28, 2008, 05:56AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

smartstuff a world of nouns

What's your definition

of “works”?

I know blatant antagonism does something, but beyond that, I think we might disagree on exactly what...

Aug 28, 2008, 07:25AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Uncle Enore Christ...of the Stockton Christs.

Well, if I were in the situation you described...

...here is how I’d figure it…

Sure, I didn’t mean for the boyfriend to get that email, and it would have been better had that not happened.

On the other hand, I didn’t say anything that wasn’t true, the asshole IS way too sensitive about shit, and his reaction just proves that point.

So I’d send him an email, written especially for him, telling him it was ok with me if he was offended…now relax and leave me alone. I might use the phrase “fuck off,” or “get over yourself.”

The entire incident would be over as far as I would be concerned, I’d put it out of my head and simply delete any emails I got from him.

I don’t know, life is way too short and too full of things one needs to worry about to get all caught up in some silly dramatic bullshit where someone doesn’t like the TRUTH about himself.

He’d get over it…or not..and either way would be fine with me.

Aug 28, 2008, 07:54AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

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Nicole

No email disaters...

I once had someone get into my blog and send nasty messages to my friends. I ended up apologizing to all involved and then I closed my account, just in case the person intended to do it again.
Good luck though!

Aug 27, 2008, 09:19PM PDT | Respond to this

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Aug 27, 2008, 09:34PM PDT

bedhead2

Email disasters....

Not that I can remember. But I did have a similar type of thing happen that was horrifying.

I was at work. I decided to print up a VERY personal note or something, actually I think it was an email my boyfriend sent me (who also works with me). I tried to print it. It wouldn’t print. I tried again. And again. It still wouldn’t print. I realized that it was “PENDING” and the next person who printed something would see the whole thing!!!! I was horrified!!

Luckily my friends husband came in to my work. He is a computer wiz and a kind guy. He fixed the printing problem, removed the pending articles and totally saved me from a bunch of people knowing my private life.

Aug 27, 2008, 10:24PM PDT | Respond to this

~Charlotte~

A txt one if that counts?

Damn sms to the wrong person… We broke up over it actually.

I was 16, he was 23 – it was a txt to a friend about the age difference. Freaked the guy out, he broke up with me. I cried. Then I got over it!

Aug 28, 2008, 01:21AM PDT | Respond to this


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