12 Shocking Texts That People Mistakenly Received

Over on Quora, tons of people answered the question, "Have you ever mistakenly received a text you weren’t supposed to get?" The answers are extremely cringeworthy, and maybe a little relatable, too:

1."It was actually an email from one of my bosses. It was supposed to be sent to his boss, Rod (not me, Rob) complaining about me — but everything he was saying was a lie. He said they should seriously think about not giving me any bonus this year and wanted to know what was the best way to word the bad news without upsetting me. He had it recalled when he realized he sent it to me, but I copied and pasted it into a Word doc for safekeeping, and then did my research. When we met, I acted as if I knew nothing about the email. When we got to the part about the bonus, I started listing everything he was doing wrong at the company. I also sent a bcc email to the others he was meeting with to not let him feed them his bullshit! Somehow, news of all the little perks he was cheating the company out of got to his boss, and he was let go a few months later! Did I get my bonus, you ask? Hell yes…100% of it!"

—Rob W., Quora

2."One Valentine's Day, I got a text from a female friend whom I hadn't seen in years. The text just said, 'I love you.' I texted her back and told her I loved her, too, but why couldn't she have said it years ago? She texted me back and told me she meant to send it to her husband."

—Randal P., Quora

3."A guy who used to work for me said he and his wife could pick me up at my house so we could drive to an office party together. About an hour before they were supposed to arrive, I got a text from him: 'Love — what are you wearing? Would you like me to bring you a dress?' I read it twice before realizing he obviously meant to send it to his wife. He was mortified. I wouldn't have teased him about it if I had known what awaited me. Two weeks later, he was supposed to come into my office for a meeting. A call I was on was longer than I expected, so I texted him so he wouldn't be standing at my door waiting for me to hang up the phone: 'Wait for me to call you. I need sex.' What I actually wrote was, 'Wait for me to call you. I need a sec.' Thank you, autocorrect."

—Dushka Z., Quora

4."It started a hilarious conversation with someone who was obviously drunk and asking for nudes. I played along and sent pics of old nude statues. Then they asked for a real pic. A dick pic. So I sent them a picture of Dick Van Dyke. They never messaged again. I was saddened, 'cuz I was having a grand old time. =]"

—Melissa W., Quora

5."A guy I was dating sent me a text saying, 'Can’t wait to see you and make love to you all night long.' We didn’t have a date that night. I called him right away and told him thanks for the nice text. He got rather flustered and said he meant he wished he could see me. I told him I was free that evening. He hung up on me. I called him and told him that I could forgive just about anything but dishonesty. If we didn’t sort this, we were done. At first, he agreed we would talk over the weekend — then he called to cancel Friday afternoon. We broke up. He admitted months later that he met another woman, but it didn’t work out. He asked if I wanted to try again. I hung up."

—Helena H., Quora

6."I mistakenly received an email from Amnesty International and it was a big deal. Two years ago, a friend of mine was jailed in Kosovo under politically motivated and false charges. I contacted Amnesty’s office in Germany, but they told me that the persons dealing with Eastern Europe are in Amnesty’s headquarters in London. I sent an email to them with details about the case, and after a couple of minutes, I got this answer: 'Are you able to look at this? Should I ask for more details or send an out of office?'"

"This email was directed at another case worker and had been sent erroneously to my email address. I thought to myself, 'WTF? Amnesty is sending out of office notifications when they don’t want to deal with a case?' I replied to the email and told them that they had made a mistake. Amnesty immediately apologized, but after a couple of more emails, it became clear that they weren’t willing to help my friend in prison. I put a screenshot of the email on Twitter and tagged Amnesty’s Head of Europe. In less than five minutes, I received a Twitter message from them telling me to immediately delete my tweet or face 'serious legal consequences.' I replied that they were free to sue me whenever they wanted, but that in fact it was them who screwed up and not me. After my reply, their tone softened, and we agreed to bury the hatchet and continue working together. I wasn’t interested in making a scandal, I just wanted to get my friend out of prison. They almost immediately contacted the British Foreign Office on the highest level (fortunately, my jailed buddy had a British passport), and a couple of weeks later, my friend got released from jail."

—Roland B., Quora

7."So, my wife and I are in bed, watching the news, when she gets a text along with a photo of a dude, bare from the chest up. She started blushing, and passed me the phone, saying, 'You need to handle this.' So I wrote back, 'Dude, this is her husband. Just what were you thinking?' He answered, 'Maybe you should talk to your wife.' 'Do you know which number you texted to?' For several minutes, radio silence. When he replied, he said, 'Sorry, man. But, at least she knows what she’s missing.' 'Dude, we’re OLD. You can’t be that hard up.' 'Sorry…' Ah, the joys of the digital age."

—Jeffrey N., Quora

8."I had a female friend of mine send me an intimate photo of herself on Snapchat when she was in the bath. I didn't want to be awkward, because we were really good friends, but she's a lesbian, so I knew they weren't meant for me. I joked it off sarcastically and said, 'I never knew you felt this way, how romantic.' She then apologized and confirmed it was for someone else. I just told her it's ok and that it's no big deal."

—Sean C., Quora

9."I got one from my sister thanking my mom for buying her a nice two-bedroom house for her and her granddaughter so close to her. I responded back saying, 'I knew you were a low piece of crap, but to force a person with full-blown dementia to buy you a house is the lowest you could ever do.' I sent it from a phone that I just replaced with a new number and provider. Our mom could sign her name, but she couldn’t talk anymore. My sister did this while our stepdad was having back surgery and was gone for a month. He couldn’t do anything since it was her who took out money. My stepdad got a restraining order on my sister."

—Dianna, Quora

10."I once sent all of my coworkers a group text that said, 'These chickens look horrible. I don’t like them.' I meant to send that to my wife. I was supposed to pick up a rotisserie chicken for dinner, but I didn’t like my choices, so I went with something else. My coworkers enjoyed trying to figure out what I meant. Was I talking about them? Was I talking about a student? What was the deeper meaning behind 'chickens'? Was it a code word for something else? Five of them texted me back within a few minutes with things like, 'You should quit judging the chickens, they’re doing the best they can.' Or 'You know what’s worse than ugly chickens? Ugly cows.'"

—Matthew B., Quora

11."I SENT a happy birthday mail to my EX instead of my sister one time. It was embarrassing as hell."

—Ayan R.C., Quora

And finally...

12."I meant to text my husband that I wanted a pet anaconda for my birthday. I'd found a website that sold baby anacondas, so I texted him the link while I was at work and wrote, 'Honey I want pet anaconda for birthday.' My husband is usually the first person in my messages inbox because I rarely text anyone else. However, that day I had texted one of our company’s directors since there was an urgent matter that needed his attention and he hadn’t responded to my email — so that was the conversation at the top of my inbox. I blindly sent both texts to the director in quick succession: the link and the message. Five minutes later, he swung by my desk and told me how buying reptiles is a bad idea, and when it grows large enough, the anaconda would swallow me. I was like, 'How do YOU know I was considering buying a reptile?' He showed me his phone and the texts from me. We laughed about it and it was all cool, but it was a little embarrassing."

—Anonymous, Quora

Got any embarrassing stories of your own? See you in the comments!