email bloopers

[pygmalion]

I was having a PM conversation with a forum member last night about how easy it is to miscommunicate in email, or in forums like this. A lot of times, the things we intend to say, don't get said the way we think. Or we hurt people's feelings, Or we misinterpret someone else's tone. Happens to me all the time.

Like the time I typed in sex-to-eight week classes, instead of six-to-eight week classes. :oops: Or the time I wrongly accused SD of hating all dance franchise schools. :shock:

I have a really funny story I'll share later in this thread.

In the meantime, does any of you have sad, funny, inspirational or infuriating stories about your own email bloopers, or ones you've been the "victim" of? Please share. :D

[MissAlyssa]

I have accidentally sent an email to the wrong person who then told the person who was mentioned in the email what the email said about them. :oops:

[dancersdreamland]

I know I have some...but I can't think of them off hand. I'll have to chew on this a while and get back to ya.

[Christina]

yeah lol last week i meant to send an email to one of my best friends its a chain we have and we talk about kissing guys and crushes and stuff and i accidently sent it to my Aunt instead lol i was so embarressed when she told me she read it!! hehe luckily there wasnt anything really bad in it! :lol:

[Swing Kitten]

OH NO!! Christina!! that's hilarious! Something like that has some REAL potential for awfulness-- yikes! hhahahahaha I'm glad you survived and welcome to the dance forums, it's nice to have you with us. I haven't seen any of your other posts yet so I don't know anything about you-- what genre of dancing have you sold your soul to? ;)



-- my contribution to this thread: I was one IMing with a friend of mine and at the same time he was IMing with his girlfriend and he accidentally got the conversations mixed up!

[SDsalsaguy]

-- my contribution to this thread: I was one IMing with a friend of mine and at the same time he was IMing with his girlfriend and he accidentally got the conversations mixed up!
:shock: ... :oops: ... :twisted:

[pygmalion]

LOL! That's a good one, SK! :lol:

[dancergal]

Oh boy! I have a few, but my worst one was when my best friend "D" and I were not talking to each other because I couldn't stand her boyfriend. She always fought with him and then took him back. He was an ego-maniac and she couldn't see it. Anyway, one weekend a few friends and I were all planning to go to Las Vegas for a concert. She and her b/f decided to tag along with us and get married while they were at it. She sent an e-mail to our group inviting us to her "wedding" and said for us to pass it along to anyone else she may have missed. I forwarded it to another friend, "C", and wrote a mean little comment on it. But instead of hitting forward, I must of hit the "reply" button. When I checked with my friend "C" later and asked her if she got my e-mail, she said no and I wondered why not. A few days later "D" called and said that wasn't very nice what I wrote about her and she said I obviously didn't know I send it back to her. Boy was I embarrassed!! I told her I was sorry if I hurt her feelings, but I thought she was making a big mistake. Open mouth, take out foot! How can I translate that to e-mail??? Slap my hands???

(We are still friends and somehow made up a few months later and as an aside, a year after they were married, they divorced. I didn't say I told you so, but I felt it.) :wink:

[will35]

I know of a marriage that broke up because the guy was cruising the personals, and somebody emailed him some really cute stuff. His wife found it, and she didn't think it was so cute.

[Swing Kitten]

I know of a marriage that broke up because the guy was cruising the personals, and somebody emailed him some really cute stuff. His wife found it, and she didn't think it was so cute.

That is just plain wrong! I'm sure it was best for both people involved to get out of that.

[will35]

I don't know whether it was best to get out of it or not. The three little kids were not so happy. Maybe you're right, though. There were some other things wrong with the couple, not just email.

[Swing Kitten]

Man, that's an awful situation... I hope they have healed or will heal despite it all. It just sucks!! I hate that sort of thing.

[dancergal]

Actually I heard many marriages breaking up over one party's use of the internet. It's pretty sad. :cry:

[Danish Guy]

Got this little story in my email. :shock:
I guess it fits the theme.


An Illinois man left the streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida.
His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him the next day.
When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail.
Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail
address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed
one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife,
whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow
checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing
scream, and fell to the floor dead.
At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the
screen: Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your
arrival tomorrow. Your Loving Husband.
P.S: Sure is hot down here

[SDsalsaguy]

Thanks for sharing John, that was good for a laugh! :lol:

[Sagitta]

So where's your story Pygmallian?

Mine. Emailed a list of people asking them if they could do my shift lectoring at mass and missed f in the subject line so it read "help for my ****..." Oh when I went for mass :oops:

[Swing Kitten]

that's a really good one!! lmao!

[NeoDevin]

I was IMing in one window with one person, basically making facts up as I go, at the same time making fun of her in another window with another person (I know, I'm not a very nice person once you get to know me :wink: ). I ended up getting the two windows confused, quoted back to the first person what she'd said and mocking her about it. She was confused for a sec, then figured it out and wasn't too happy about it.

[SDsalsaguy]

Ouch! Don't think I'd be too happy in her shoes either* :?

* ...especially as I have wide feet!

[NeoDevin]

It sure was entertaining though. Me and the other person were rolling around laughing about it for almost an hour.

[MadamSamba]

Ohh, dear...a girl at work was cheating on her boyfriend (A) with her ex-boyfriend (B) and was communicating with B via e-mail.

She was saying things like "it shouldn't have happened and never will again" etc. Unfortunately (or fortunately) B stumbled across one undeleted one and put the pieces together...needless to say, they broke up about a week later. :oops:

[Swing Kitten]

Was it B who stumbled across it? I thought she was writing to B. Did A do the stumbling? A? B? ergh!

[Sagitta]

Since B was being communicated to via email, and no mention of boyfriend A I would think it would be boyfriend A who stumbled across an undeleted email. But, then Madamsamba says A!! I'm with you here Swing kitten. Am having ahard time figuring this one out! :)

[SDsalsaguy]

Umm, I think you understand it as it should be...minor typo not withstanding. :wink:

[MadamSamba]

Ok, Ok...I was wrong... :shock:
Who knew you were all so eagle-eyed! :) ha ha. Yes, it was A who stumbled across the undeleted e-mail and all hell broke out.

The ironic part was that A and my friend got back together for about three months then A cheated on my friend...twice!!! I remember her telling me that one of his rather nasty parting shots was something along the lines of, "well at least something good came of your cheating, my rule with both girls was "NO E-MAIL". OUCH! :)

So how was A caught? Good old-fashioned snooping. My friend found a credit card statement for a rather expensive watch, one that cost twice as much as her own birthday present, which was just days before.

[pygmalion]

Ah. The things people do to each other in the name of love. Or is it lust?

Mine seems tame now. Several years ago, one of my jobs was to maintain and distribute a library of data to a large group of people. To do that, I had a script/chron file that would distribute the databases. It was a high pressure, high visibility job, and one day, right before distribution time, a woman named Marianne called and really got on my nerves, complaining about the data changes, etc. For at least the fiftieth time! So I renamed the database to something obscene with Marianne's name attached, and sent the file out. I didn't realize that the file NAME got sent, too, not just the data. To over two hundred people. Yikes! :shock: :oops:

I guess Marianne must have gotten on other people's nerves too. I never felt any repercussions. But I was much more careful about what I named my files, after that. :lol: