I was in the shower earlier and heard my cell phone beeping when I got out. I retrieved a most abashed message from someone who inadvertently sent me an e-mail that was meant for someone else, in which the sender was plotting a fiendish Christmas gift for me. (See how carefully I’m protecting this person’s identity–as if many of us couldn’t guess exactly who I’m talking about?)
Oh, if only we could get back those e-mails we send by mistake. I’ve done it. I’m sure we all have.
What was the one message you sent that made you go, “D’oh!” just a split second too late? How bad was the fallout?
Discuss while I take my greatly amused and UNTORMENTED self to bed.
Edit: I see while I was writing this, she was making a full confession.
I love the Internet.
I worked so hard on getting those damn songs.
I want to slit my wrists.
oh, and you can’t mention that I was at least nice about it on the phone?
Riiiiight. You were nice in your phone message when you were trying to figure out a way to prevent me from knowing that in one month, thanks to you, I’d be listening to multiple versions of one of my most maddening ear worms. I’ll note your niceness in some future post.
email mistake
The biggest email oops I’ve ever had was when I sent a message following up on my resume for a children’s librarian job from my msleatherfeather account with all my links to online naughty stories as well as anthology listings, instead of my professional ellenteva account. DUH? No wonder I didn’t get that job. LOL
Ellen
Re: email mistake
I can’t understand why they didn’t put you on the payroll immediately! (I’m betting they’re still talking about you.)
Not exactly an e-mail, but it was a definite online oops.
I was on AOL Instant Messenger a few years ago, having a conversation with a friend about a recent episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In reply to something they said, I was going to reply, “Hahaha, when you kill a witch, get your ass to Mexico!” So, I typed it out and hit enter, not realizing until after I’d hit enter that another friend, whom I had not been in touch with for months, had IM-ed me. Her window had popped up in the middle of my typing, and part of my message got sent to her. So, the conversation opened with:
SHERIE. Hey! Long time no see! How’s everything going?
DALE. witch, get your ass to Mexico!
Fortunately, she figured out that I’d sent the message to the wrong person, and no offense was taken.
Haaaha ha. Yet another reason why I HATE IMs. I’ve had my IMs go astray, too, but never with enough humorous mishap to rate more than a “Huh?” from my confused recipient.
Great story.
That is so funny! Well, both the evil plan and how it was exposed. There’s an album of a bunch of various versions of “Stairway to Heaven” which would be a great evil gift to somebody who said they were sick of hearing that song.
I used to be on an email mailing list for TAs and professors involved in this TAship for this class we were all teaching and those professors who oversaw us. Anyway, there were a ton of people on that list and they warned us not to reply to these mass emailings because everybody on the list would see your reply. I never made that mistake but a number of other people did, to their immense embarrassment. I’m pretty sure nowadays most email programs will stop you with a window asking you if you just want to send a message to the sender or everybody on the list.
Heaven’s just a sin away.
God’ll get you for that, Walter.