Text Message Nightmares!

I'll admit it: I am a texter. Not hardcore mind you, but there's no denying the benefits: it's discreet, efficient and can provide some cheap thrills. There's nothing more fun than getting a dirty text in the middle of a mind-numbing status meeting.

However, as with all good things, I am also finding it can be downright disastrous. Sending texts - or "sexts" as I've learned this new raunchy breed of messaging is called - to the wrong people has replaced the accidental "reply to all" that every emailer lives in fear of (that's so 2007 though). I recently learned the hard way when I inadvertently sent a "joke" text about Febrezing my balls to a humorless colleague. Oops.

So with my texting cherry popped, I shared my horror story and found out I am not alone. And while nothing can accurately convey the horror one feels at the moment of realization, here are a few classics from friends and colleagues:

• One semi-closeted colleague intended to send a short and sweet love note to his same-sex partner. Unfortunately, he accidentally selected the entry alphabetically just before his partner, who was none other than his partner's father (bada bing!) Based on the dad's reaction, we don't recommend this route for National Coming Out Day.

• Another coworker who commuted weekly to her job a few hundred miles away sent a quick note to her GF when her trip home for the weekend was unfortunately cancelled. The response "HUH? I wil C U. Luv U 2?" Seems her boss was a little confused about the sender's intentions.

• Another friend is literally a text fiend. He has a buddy, however, who is textaphobic and hates it when the fiend gets all thumbsy. They were out one night and he was in the middle of several chats and just to further irritate his friend, he sent the message "WANT SOME COCK" to his parents' landline. Too bad he didn't know that his parents had gotten a new text to voice converter feature for their house line. That must have been some wake-up call!

Think you can top that? Share your text/sext horror stories here, and remember - one errant text is all it takes!

Comments

[SharpAvenue]

"How do I get my junk out of this cockring?" To my cousin. She got a laugh out of it.

[Blaze]

my best friend went to send me a text message about how nerotic her girlfriend was about cleaning. unfortunat5ely she sent it to the girlfriend instead of me. we ended up having an even bigger laugh about how badly she got reamed out and almost dumped lol. I guess its just a bad idea telling someone they are nerotic on the 2nd date

[Sonny]

I was writing a text message to my friend about the guy I was dating, it read something like "Gosh Alicia, Loui is fucking pissing me off, why does he have to be such a douche?"

and i end up sending it to Loui. Lmao.

[AL]

i had worser run-in.. sent "WANT SOME DICK" to a co-worker.. instead oh man that was the worsest "green empty bottomless pit" filling ever my mistake was i save the numbers and named them to the wrong person day prior to the incident.

[Eric]

During a particularly bad break-up, my ex was going on and on about everything I'd ever done wrong, after he'd asked about us being friends in the aftermath. He'd already found a new boyfriend, and in one of my responses, I said, "Do you want to be with me or not? Cuz this isn't helping," INSTEAD OF "Do you want to be FRIENDS with me or not? Cuz this isn't helping." -- oh my, the responses I received...

[RON A ZABRISKIE]

i was supposed meet some people from work on a sunday after a huge storm. i live on a hill and the road was pretty slick so i called off meeting them by sending a text that "IT WAS SO ICY AT MY HOUSE THAT PEOPLE KEEP RUNNING INTO IT" (cars were hitting the curb right in front of my house). i was using T9 predict text at the time and didn't realize that the default word for I.C.Y is G.A.Y
had some weird responses wondering why it "was so GAY at my house that people keep running into it"! :D

[RR]

I sent a text message to a family member that got stuck with some of our crazy relatives after I bailed because I didn't want to hang out with them. What I sent was, "Were you able to shake the loonies, or are you out helping them score some drugs?" This of course was meant as an inside joke, well the person that was meant to get it had left their phone unattended and I had to explain what I mean to the family members that actually read it... AWKWARD

[Josh]

When camera phones first came out several years ago, I made the mistake of taking a picture of myself (not my face) with my phone while I'd been drinking. My phone ended up getting stolen, and the kind soul that relieved me of it sent my ever-so-flattering self portrait to everybody in my address book. Wasn't so easy to explain that one to Mom.

[Dusty]

I was texting my "friend" while I was at work and I was telling him what I was going to do to him the next time I saw him. I also told him exactly what I wanted him to do to me in great detail. He didn't respond, which was wierd, because my sexy texts always get him worked up. The next day I was at work and I bumped into my landlord,who I lease my salon from, and he asked me if I really wanted him to come over and have sex with me the night before. His name is right above my "friend" in my address book. They have the same first name. I could have died,I still have a hard time looking him in the eye now that he knows what a dirty little slut I am!

[Joey]

Im getting annoyed with this American text craze, its much too time consuming. People spend 30 minutes to an hour texting in what could be just a 5 or 10 min conversation on the phone! and dangerous on the road...and people take too long to reply. Its been abused and its annoying and when it carries over to business it gets that much more annoying.

[Laun]

Yes, its important that the wrong texts aren't sent to the wrong person you can really hurt someone you didn't mean to!!!!!!! Also, rumors and lies from "BITCHES" are the worst and should not be spread,do be careful.

[sean]

so my friends and i think that one of this girls we're friends with is a total lesbian. well we were all of us together at a bar. and we always text each other shit about the people we're with because we just get a kick out of it. well i had JUST texted this girl i thought was a lezzie something, and her response was very gay. so, of course i had to text my other friend her response. and i texted that "we really really need to talk about katie's dyke-ishness" well as it turns out i sent it to katie rather than my friend. since she was sitting next to me... things got really awkward really fast. ALWAYS LOOK WHO YOU'RE SENDING TO!!!!

[Trav]

I was stuck in a meeting once, very long drawn out and painfully boring. Most of the people at my workplace are friends, including my boss, and one of our friends had recently left for another department. I decided to send her a text, short and sweet, saying that I'd rather be prison raped then spend another second in one of our bosses meetings.
Of course, just my luck, I sent out the text to the person below my intended target - my boss. She opened up her phone, read the text, and then told me that I looked pretty bored, and if there was anything I'd rather be doing. I might as well have died of embarrassment right then and there.

I try to be more careful with my texting now!

[Boyet]

For my BF but went instead to his daughter... I texted something and undersigned... -Your F*cking doll

[dontcha_1982]

I was being naughty and meant to send a slutty text to a booty call, but instead sent it to my boyfriend by accident... luckily it was random and spontaneous enough that it would work for him as well.... be careful you slutty boys!

[ricky]

sucks that you weren't caught dontcha. why dontcha just tell your bf the truth - too selfish?

[Jon]

I told my Dad, not my friend Dan that I couldn't wait to have my tongue in some pretty explicit places. Dad wasn't too happy.

[delandguy23]

i sent a text to my friend saying "horny" and accidently sent it to other employee, when i said ignore the text he told me he had no idea that was my number and almost told everybody

[Nater5588]

I was being dirty and texting this guy i was seeing (virgin) and he was teasing me with the fact that he doesn't have a gag reflex... I was extremely turned on (in class) and proceeded to ask him how much he can deepthroat...

Less than a minute later i get a text from my MOM "What about deep throating? I just wanted to know how school is going..."

Aparently she text me right after my boy, and i responded to her text... whoops. Got the iPhone now and its a little harder to get confused...

[Mike Anderson]

I was on a first date. When he excused himself to go to the bathroom, I decided to take that time to text my friend about how the date was going. I mistakenly texted the date in the bathroom, "he is so not into me." He came out smiling but I didn't know why until I checked my phone later.

[Alto]

My best friend received a text asking what he was up to. I was helping him burn some CDs for his cousin (cous) at the time. Using T9 predictive text, he accidentally replied "not much, my mate's here helping me burn some CDs for my anus".

[alex]

i used to have a t-mobile sidekick 3. That had AOL instant messanger on it, and with one click of a button at the top of the phone, you could move from one chat window to another. I was talking to a friend who was having problems with her boyfriend, and I was also talking to him on a different chat window. She knew I was gay but he didn't. Her and I would always make small jokes about him when we talked and I was saying how I thought he was cute and that I couldnt believe that he was so well endowed (she had told me this a while back). I was driving during these two conversations and I kept telling my friend about how I had a little crush on her boyfriend and what Id do with him if he were into guys. At a red light, I saw that she had replied with a "Hey, why did you stop talking?". Sort of puzzled, i read through our conversation and I did not see anything written from me about him. I switched to his chat window to find out that I had actually said all those things to him

[Tim]

Just last week I was sending a text to Dan the guy I mess around with now and then. It was pretty umm you know about what I wanted tonight. I sent it to the wrong Dan a good friend of mine who is st8. I was like %P#(%&)(&%)(&#%

[comoguy41]

Dating someone with the same name as your father is never a good idea. I dated a guy who had the same name as my Dad, and on multiple occasions, sent dirty text messages to my dad, the most embarassing being on New Years Eve two years ago. My bf at the time was out of town and I meant to send him a message that said "I really wish you were here so I could give you a blowjob and make you cum right at midnight." That comment went to my father instead.

[HypnoToad]

Here's an idea: Don't use the bloody things to send risque material! D-U-H! No texts, no nudie pics... is all this too much for people to fathom these days? Maybe corporations are right when they claim Americans are dumb, what having created technological devices that dumb down the population and all...

[Josh]

While having lunch with a former roomate that I and my current roomate kind of hated, I sent a text about her to my current roomate... or at least I thought I did. I sent a nasty text about my former roomate to my former roomate while she was sitting across the table from me.

[d]

LOL @ these stories. Makes me wish there were a part 2 to some of them (the father ones, the boss one).. definitely kink worthy!

[bill robinson]

i was responding to a request to send a pic of my self to a hot guy i met and send muti media pic of me jacking to my sister by mistake.NOT GOOD

[Matt]

I sent the the managing director of my department a txt that said "FUCK OFF, or something". It was supposed to go to a friend of mine with the same name, who was sitting next to me. Thank God he has a sense of humor.

[Will]

ISN"T TEXTING a bad thing for gay guys?

Haven't we enough trouble NOT cheating or Following through on call backs??

I just remember finding a guy hard when it was just gay.com and the bars.

Isn't texting making all these distancing, aloneness and unkindness and dishonor worse???

[Steven]

Well, my biggest text embarassment was when i was talking to a friend about my 18th birthday party...i sent her(or so i thought) "Hey, so u should try 2 get robbie to strip at my bday party, he is EFFIN gorgeous...nice ass as well" little did i know Danielle and Dad were right next to eachother...So i get no response from her then later that night i get a text from my dad saying "Why would i get u a male stripper?" Yea my dads very anti gay...VERY FUN!!!

[Politico]

I was a state organizer for a very popular national level political candidate last year.

I sent a risque txt to one of his peeps and the candidate himself was said to have seen the comment and given a good hearted "busted!" laugh.

[Morgan]

I came out to my brother by accident. Was txting my gay friend and told him how much I liked this guy named JASON and waited and waited for his reply. 10 mintues later I receive a txt saying "I KNEW IT". CRAP nice one stupid Morgan.....!!!!

[AWC]

Texting is a really annoying habit. Grow up! If you're over 16 yrs of age, you shouldn't be texting. Texting is akin to 7th graders passing moronic notes in the classroom.

[VEM]

I was texting my at the time love interest and I mistakingly sent it to my daughter.
The text said "My Cock Is Hard 4 U!!
My daughter called about 2 seconds later and said " Dad are You OK??" I said yes and that text wasn't meant for you!!
Talk about embarrassing!! I STOPPED sexting anyone after that!!

[Brian]

While intoxicated one night, I overheard a friend of mine talking about having drunk sex with this guy I know... so I texted him and said "Drunk sex!?"... turns out the number I had was from his old phone... that now belongs to his dad... what a call I got the next day...

[Me]

Way to go Alex..texting while driving. Thanks to morons like you is why there are so many accidents these days.

[another alex]

forget about that! what i wanna know is why you were chatting with your girlfriends boyfriend and if he said anything about what you said about having a crush on him and all that!!!!!

[Gasp]

...the message went something like "love you too babe" and was sent to the last number I called which happened to be my pastor!! And it wasn't even my fault-- my phone started selecting menus and freaking out! I got a new phone because of it! haha! Thank goodness the message content wasn't worst though!

[jeremy]

Anyone else want to take a break from commenting on Gay.com's fluff pieces and talk about how the site is always down? And they want us to pay for this?