Saturday, 28 May 2011
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I'm Dating The Zohan
My best friend and I often have nicknames for the guys we're dating. Of course, the guys are never aware of such nicknames. Well, at the time, I happened to be dating a male hair stylist, so I nicknamed him what else but...Zohan! (yes I know...shame on me). So anyway, one fateful day, I was texting both my best friend and him back and forth and you guessed it--I sent a message that had his nickname that was meant for my best friend, TO HIM. Mind you, the message didn't say anything really bad about him, but since it did contain his not-so-flattering nickname, I was horrified and I seriously felt like I was about to go into a full-on panic attack.
He was a smart guy and based on the context of the message, there was NO way he wouldn't figure out it was about him. Plus, I'm sure he would be able to make the connection between himself and the Zohan reference. To be honest, I'm fuzzy about the details of my attempt at damage control following this texting faux pas because it happened a while ago, but I think I simply sent a reply saying "ohh sorry, wrong text."
He did not respond, so for hours I was in agony, wondering "Did he really know it was about him? If he did, was he offended by the nickname?" etc. Finally, later on that afternoon, I just decided to text him as if nothing had happened and luckily for me, we were able to move on without further incidence. I never did formally acknowledge 'Zohan' as being his nickname (don't ask, don't tell right?)
So, please tell me I'm not alone in this. Has anyone ever inadvertently sent a message, especially a potentially damaging one, to the very person the message was about or have YOU ever received such a text about yourself? In either situation, what did you do in response?
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I've never sent a text to the wrong person, and frankly, I don't know how anyone does that.
Lol aww that sounds funny. I've IMed the wrong person, but it wasn't like bad. It was just an out of context lol or a snipped of an entirely unrelated convo.
I've never sent texts to the wrong person. But I've had words automatically corrected by my phone and changed into something else. One time I was going to text a group of girls saying "hello boys", but the word "boys" for some reason turned into "cows."
@kate - This. This sums up my thoughts nicely.
I have several people in my phone with the same name, so yes I've sent a text to the wrong person before.
Late one night (or more like early the next morning) I was in a 24 hour coffeeshop in StL. Well, a brawl bursts out in the street between two groups of guys. Before you know it, all these guys take off their belts and start swinging them around their heads, attempting to beat their opponents with said belts.
I sent a text to a friend who would appreciate the ridiculousness of the situation. Or tried to at least. In reality I sent the text to my college's chaplain who happened to have the same first name. Oops.
I have messaged the wrong person at work and I was actually talking about him. And the content was a bit inappropriate... LOL I told him that message wasnt meant for him and he asked me who I was talking to. Thats why i dont have my manager on my contact list.
I have done this so many times. Most of the time though it has been something like "where are you?" or something silly like that. I do it because my phone stores a list of the latest people I texted and sometimes I hit send twice without changing the person I am sending it to by accident. I have only done this once where it was a big deal. One time I was riding in the car with my fiance and my best friend. My friend started telling this really strange story about how she had gone to the hardware store with her dad and she had given him some goofy advice about what wood to pick out and he had taken it and she was going on and on about special it was to her that he respected her opinion. Now, I know this sounds bitchy, but I have known her since we were in Jr. High, she has always had this weird thing with her dad. Not like she is trying to please him, like she has a crush on him....so this story was just strange and it really made me cringe because of past stories and situations. So I text my fiance, "Oh my gosh. I swear she has a crush on her dad. That is the weirdest relationship" and I accidently sent it to her..............The car was very quiet. I say out loud, "ooopppsss" and give a nervous giggle. I could tell I really hurt her feelings because she just got quiet and normally she would have been really loud and defensive, but instead she just mumbled, "I do not" and blushed like she was embarrassed. I felt so horrible. I apologized, explained, and tried to give a realistic explanation and retraction of my comment without making her feel worse. And that is how you know you have a REALLY good friend. She just let it go. Never even acted mad at me for it. I deserved a slap and a cussing out. The only time she ever mentions it is when she wants to tell me another weird story about her dad she always says, "I know you are going to think I have a crush on my dad when I tell you this, but I don't care because I want to tell you anyway." And deep down, I DO think she does.
Oh, and when I was young and desperately in love with one of those guys who only wants to be with you about half of the time, and therefore only returned my texts when he felt like it, we would go from an all-night conversation to him apparently falling off the earth two days later. When he would do one of his not-texting-me-back-numbers I would sometimes pretend to accidently send him a text meant for someone else. So I would just make up stuff that obviously sounded like I was talking to another girl or even another guy if I was feeling rotten and then send an "sorry, wrong person" text afterwards. I was so desperate. How embarrassing to remember.
i have a friend who for some reason always texts me thinking he's texting his wife and it would be so awkward reading what he says. stuff like "morning babe last night was great." "hey beautiful" "i'm hungry" i'm like jesus christ man look at who you're texting !! after awhile i gave up and would play along and write back
@Annizka@xanga - LOL
and LOL at the article.
Lol I have done this way too many times. Especially where I am trying to forward his texts to a girlfriend of mine along with my personal side notes about it to her... and accidentally just forwarded that message to him instead. DOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was so pissed that I was sharing our business with people. Ah well. C'est la vie.
@Kazydai@mancouch- It is possible. Usually, it is all done on accident. Sometimes people forget to look at the person they are texting or they just send something to the wrong person with the same name. Usually it involves rushing.
wasn't the Zohan a master with women and also kicked ass all over the place and very charming and a leader of men?
ya he was probably insulted
@ShirleyD@xanga - OMG thats the worst lol...The "forwarding with commenta" scenario also has happened to me, but on AIM as opposed to texting. Its very hard to bounce back from that lol, especially if the comments you wrote about the person weren't exactly positive. Now I seriously double check what I'm sending and to who!
@Jane - WOW...I could not imagine being face to face in a situation like that. She is indeed a good friend--I give both you and her credit for being able to move on so gracefully, but I know at that moment, you were freaking out and thinking about how you possibly messed up everything. Its always like the second after you send the txt, you realize! She has obviously forgiven you, but I know neither of you have forgotten, but as long as you are still friends and she continues to tell her her stories anyway, I say it looks like you still on good terms.
LOL @ the second story. That made my day because I'm also familiar with this situation *hangs head in shame*
my college roommate accidentally sent me a text meant for someone else in which she said they're talking about how much of whores they are, me and my bestfriend were sitting in the hallway outside with the door open just casually talking about the guys that we have kissed and i sent her a message back saying uhhhh...what? and she responded with OH! that was about some girl that she was skyping with...only she wasn't on Skype cause where i was sitting i could see her computer...needless to say i was never very friendly towards her after that
My phone requires too many steps to texting for me to make that mistake.
I was dating this guy freshman year of college, and none of my friends liked him AT ALL. I wasn't completely comfortable with him yet, so I asked my roommate to stay in the room when he was there, but as soon as he got there she was like well I'll be back later text me. So when he left, I texted her saying something like, he's gone, you can come back now. I accidentally sent it to him, and he responded going, I think you meant to send that to your roommate, not me. :-/
It did not affect anything though and we ended up dating for a month, which I now regret but that is another story.
@Jane - I used to do that to this guy I really liked who kinda broke my heart. I would send him a fake text that I pretended I meant to send to someone else, and then when he responded, do the same "Sorry, wrong person" thing. I feel your pain haha.
Ahahah these stories are hilarious.
One of my older friends used to have this thing about competition, she always wanted to prove she was better than whoever else. Like if a guy talked to me she would make SURE he ended up with her at the end of the night, it was stupid. So one day she was telling me how she kept texting a mutual friend of ours to come hang out with us that she knew I was interested in, and she just KEPT texting him like "come hang outtt omgggg" so I sent "sorry she is being so annoying, she's obsessed with you coming to see us." But I accidentally sent it to her. Bahaha woooppss!
And THIS is the worst. My best guy friend and I tell each other ANYTHING and I feel the relationship is simply platonic. Then one day we are at his birthday dinner and he sends me a text meant for his friend that says, "I told Danielle I had sex with this girl at PC; if she brings it up just roll with it." And I was like..... ahahahah we really haven't seen eachother since, now it's just awkward.