The hazards of text messaging

[Flora]

I was about to go out earlier and picked up my mobile to take with me, noticed there was a text message from an un-saved number and this is what it said

 

'OMG ive bin suspended from skool 4 stealing' (typos not mine... teenage text speak!!)

 

My heart literally dropped like a brick to me boots

 

I knew it wasn't my dd's phone because her number is stored, but thought maybe it was her texting from a friend's phone. I immediately rang the number and a woman answered. I asked who it was and sort of recognised the name but couldn't place it.

 

Anyhoo, to cut a garbled convo short it turned out to be a friend from the secondary school my dd was at two years ago. It was her daughter texting my phone by mistake (she probably has me under 'Suze's Mum') and when I rang her number it was diverted to her mum's phone I can imagine the extra rollicking she's going to get when her mum tackles her about telling people!

 

Poor girl, but more her poor mum, I felt really sorry for her.

 

Texting can be very hazardous and confusing!!!! Not long ago I once texted a friend to tell her my mum was getting on my nerves and then sent to my mum by mistake

 

Flora

[TheNeil]

I once texted Orange to tell them that I'd be late home and that I loved them. As soon as I hit 'send' it dawned on me that I should have picked Mrs Neil's number instead

[Paula]

I once thought id sent a fowel languaged abusive text to me husband coz hed been getting on me nerves.unfortunalty it went to me mother.

 

 

The shame.

[Jericho]

I once received an interesting text from someone asking if they'd left their jumper in my bedroom when they ...ahem...'visited'.

 

Thankfully Mr Jericho believed me when I said that I had no idea who the text was from and that there had been no visitors. Probably because anyone who had really visited our bedroom would know that there was no way on earth that there'd be room for a jumper under the bed.

[UltraMum]

I texted a friend from a very warm shopping centre telling her to leave her boat in the car ... that'll teach me to hit 'send' before checking the predictive texting!

[Tally]

I used to send messages meant for my husband to the first person in my phone book all the time - fortunately she was a good friend, and never got any dirty ones! I eventually added a contact called AAAA with the number 0000 to eliminate any risk of sending these messages to a real person again.

[smiley]

That lot made me giggle

 

I have one shameful confession - i once sent a text to my dad................... which was meant for someone entirely different late one evening ................

 

Thank goodness my dads broad minded!!!

[Kathryn]

I got a new phone at Christmas and it took me a while to figure it out. I spent a month sending cheerfully insulting and jokey texts to my other half, as you do, and got replies saying "thanks!"

 

It was only when I actually rang my husband and a perplexed voice answered that I realised I had stored the wrong number, and had been sending messages like "hi scumbag" and "you are a complete dweeb" to some poor unsuspecting woman for weeks.

[Bagpuss]

[DaisyProudfoot]

I once got a text from an unknown number at 1am in the morning and this is what it said:

 

"Hi Sexy, the rugby tour is finished what are you doing Saturday?"

 

Following my I showed it to my husband and said: "Look's like Johnny Wilkinson wants to meet me."

 

Luckily hubbs knows I'm faithful and I didn't ring the number back just deleted it which is a good job because had I phoned the number it would have wiped all the credit off my phone (discovered this on a consumer programme some time later).