...and send. wait....
NO! DONT SEND! UNDO UNDO! CONTROL Z!
We've all had those moment right. I call them efails, that is to say - electronic fails.
Sending an email to the wrong person, posting something in the wrong place, predictive text misinterpretations to dialing the wrong number are all well inside the scope of efailure.
They happen all the time, to the most unsuspecting people causing the most unexpected and brilliant results.
We've all heard the stories, here a links to a few email examples:
But my worst ever electronic moment was not so long ago. Let me fill you in...
I had just scored my first ever girlfriend (yes, not so long ago), and this was to be my first ever text contact as her boyfriend.
Time for operation 'smooth'. So I punched out a heart-melting message starting with "Hey girlfriend!" and some other fluffy candy floss like prose.
Checked it once, checked it twice, then confidently sent it
... to one of my best guy mates.
As if teleported into the sahara, I instantaneously broke out in a cold sweat.
Tapping through to my sent items, I was hoping that maybe I'd just been seeing things.
I had been seeing things, unfortunately the things I had been seeing were correct.
I didn't know what to do with myself although there was a balcony that was suddenly looking pretty tempting.
In the end I got the message to the right person, and that person ended up being my wife, and the lucky guy who received the misdirected text ended up asking me to be his best man.
So maybe failures aren't so bad after all, although resonably uncomfortable at the time.
What are your stories?
this one time i send a text to a girl i liked but it was supposed to go to a friend telling him that i didn't know how to tell the girl i liked her! i got rejected hahahahahaha
ReplyDeleteWell, we all know the dangers of "Reply to all"... these days it has become far too easy to shout in a room full of people you don't want to hear.
ReplyDeleteThen there's ringing the wrong Matt or Dan or Tom and having to pretend you "should catch up" when really you wished you had deleted them from your contact list long ago.