Got a text, not meant for me!

Honeybunch

Hey,

I am sure this is common enough, but I recently got a text message -absolutely nothing seedy about it, a straightforward message - but it was meant for a mobile telephone number very similar to mine.

So, being the polite person I am, I replied and said " Sorry this is meant for someone else, etc." So the texter, sent a very apologetic reply and as it was late in the evening, was afraid that I was awakened by it or whatever.
So I said, not at all, that it could happen anyone.

So many weeks later, we have a texting situation going on! And it is actually, quite good fun if not expensive on the mobile phone bill! It turns out that both of us (Me Female, and He Male) have a lot of interests. We describe day at work etc. It is real teenager stuff. Nothing will ever happen cause it just won't and that is the truth.

I am just wondering if this has ever happend to anybody else?

barryfitz

Well I once got an email from a woman who thought I was her husband. (as he has the same name as me and it was a hotmail account) She was being well kinky, not knowing it was I who would receive the message.

eco

yes i met my wife through a missent text married nearly 4 years now

smcelhinney

^^^^^ awwww.... good story.... congrats eco!

to OP, no harm in it, as long as the intentions remain pretty clear at all times. You may end up liking this guy, and wanting to take it further.

Mind me asking, what are your respective situations as in, married, single, attached etc?

Honeybunch

My situation is that I am married for a pretty long time by today's standards and the recipient of the texts has been in a `permanent `relationship for a while but is no longer for some time. This time slot does NOT coincide with the timing of the texts, might I add.

We are at opposite ends of the country and I think that it is more like the old pen pal situation but in a way, it is interesting to hear about other people's lives etc and at the same time, sometimes, it is nearly easier to discuss situations with strangers. It is like watching your favourite actor/actress on the screen, great on the screeen, but could be disappointing if you met them face to face!

Funnily, enough, I quite look forward to getting the text messages, it is like when I was a teenager and having a diary under the bed - only you knew what was in it! A bit silly, I know, if not childish, but hey, we all need a little spice in our lives!! What do you think?

strawberrybox

you both sound attached, just be careful of how far you want to go with this, it may be all pretty mundane stuff now but soon it may be "so what are you wearing" kinda thing, its good to have a new friend to share things with that you mabye would'nt normally say to people so if its innocent fair enough but if you have a b/f just say to yourself would he be ok with the content if he read your texts if so then fine if not then its already gone a bit far

Sam Vimes

a former friend of mine twice took the numbers of girls i was "texting" as teenagers do from my phone and 'accidentally' texted them to try to get stuck in. I found out about one of them weeks later when she told me she was in contact with him. and bare in mind i'd mentioned her to him several times in those few weeks

with the other girl, when he had her trust he decided to tell her a load of lies about me to try to get me out of the way. when it was clear that he was never going to be anything but a friend to this girl (i was public enemy number 1 at this stage of course) he took the number of a friend of hers that he'd met a few times from her phone and 'accidentally' texted her. he's still going out with her to this day. nice guy



about 6 months later having not talked to the guy in about 8 months, he 'accidentally' texted me saying he'd just had sex with her.

and he 'accidentally' called myself and three other friends many times at 2 am on private number for three years while telling the girl that i was doing it to him. this guy really should learn how to use a phone

LegacyUser

'hi,
yeah the same thing happened to me a few months ago, one evening a girl sent me a text that was meant for her ex boyfriend, by mistake. it had quite a sad tone. i text back saying sorry wrong number but i hope it works out well for you. we ended up texting back and forth for a week or two but that was it.
u sound curious about it??? and u never know what will happen. people in this country havent a romantic bone in their body and wont risk anything!!!
let me know'

jellie

I dont think id be too happy with my bf texting some random woman on a regular basis, regardless of the content of the texts.

OP 2 questions:
1. does your husband know about this? if yes, is he ok with it? if no, why not? have you purposely not told him?
2. how would you feel if it was your husband texting a random woman?

m_stan

Honeybunch wrote:

My situation is that I am married for a pretty long time by today's standards and the recipient of the texts has been in a `permanent `relationship for a while but is no longer for some time. This time slot does NOT coincide with the timing of the texts, might I add.

We are at opposite ends of the country and I think that it is more like the old pen pal situation but in a way, it is interesting to hear about other people's lives etc and at the same time, sometimes, it is nearly easier to discuss situations with strangers. It is like watching your favourite actor/actress on the screen, great on the screeen, but could be disappointing if you met them face to face!

Funnily, enough, I quite look forward to getting the text messages, it is like when I was a teenager and having a diary under the bed - only you knew what was in it! A bit silly, I know, if not childish, but hey, we all need a little spice in our lives!! What do you think?

if I was your husband and I found out about your txt relationship, I'd be none too happy. be very very careful about what you are doing. if your husband finds out about this he could be very annoyed and you could potentially be putting your marraige in jeopardy.

be warned

Honeybunch

Yea, I get the point about being careful and if it ever gets out of hand, then it is bye bye and barring the number! No other option.

COMMANDER

I think your situation is more the malicious type and I have been in social gatherings where I have seen guys take girls phones, pretending to admire them, send themsleves a test text to their own phones so as they have senders number! And your situation got seriously out of hand.

In my case, I think being more senior, the "what are you wearing" as in, if I EVER went down that road, would definitely not be SO interesting and would be a complete turn of! If you know what I mean!

The only reason I put up this post is to get all aspects of the good, bad and ugly side and that is always good feedback. Thanks.

aidan24326

Once got a fairly long text from a former landlady (pretty sexy she was too) describing to her boyfriend (presumably) in intimate detail what she was doing to herself in the bath and what she'd like him to do were he there! Sent to my number by mistake. Got a smile out of me for sure

Honeybunch, there's nothing terribly wrong with what you're doing but I'd be careful all the same. There may be an element of emotional cheating in it if you're sharing personal stuff with this guy and keeping it all very secretive. Harmless enough I suppose but if you have no intention to ever meet the guy (and it would probably be best if you didn't) then all you're going to end up with is expensive phone bills. Are you bored with your life/husband that you need this little bit of texting fun to brighten up your evenings?

patrickolee

Its actually more common than you'd think. I know two people it has happened to, one of whom met and slept with the other party. My friend wasn't attached though, so I guess it's different from OP. I have got a few texts myself from wrong people, but I just ignore them. I have a feeling people sometimes do it on purpose.


OP, how would you feel if your other half did the same? Or more to the point, how would you feel if you found texts that he wasn't sending to another. Would you understand?

Honeybunch

PATRICKOLEE

I suppose you could equate it with your spouse chatting up someone in the pub? I think it would take more than texting to bring down my marriage! But as the other posters suggest - am I bored? No I am not. More inquisitive at the outset and probably thereafter. I suppose if I am seen socialising with my younger workmates, as one does, does that construde as being as dangerous in the long term as we do socialise in our job, quite a lot?

Maybe we are looking into things too deeply!! And if my husband got a text would I be mad? Well he did, and I wasn't!

Anyone wanna "accidently" PM me!!? J/k



Seriously, Ive got many "accidental" texts in my time but never started up a conversation/relationship with someone cos of it! Last year after the Ireland England game in Croke Park I sent my mate a text saying "great game today" or whatever it said and got a text back off a number which was one digit different to my mates sayin "F*ck off u Paddy C*nt"!!


I dont see the big deal in it, harmless really isnt it.

Dave!

Send him a picture of you topless and see what he says.

Okay really -- does your hubby know bout it? I know there's nothing untoward going on, but still don't want him seeing a text accidentally and causing trouble.

Other than that, onwards and upwards!

Dudess

My mate has had a bit of a thing for a few months now with a guy who texted her by accident. Granted, it's only over the phone - she is in Cork, he is in Mayo. But I wouldn't be surprised if things developed further.

humanji

I once got dumped by txt, by a girl I didn't know. She was quite rude to the guy and said that she'd been cheating on him. I felt kind of sorry for him. And when I sent back "Ok, since you're single, any chance of a blow job?" I got no reply

Ruu_Old

I once got a message just saying hi, how are you and I replied asking who they were. I got another message a few hours later saying 'I text random numbers so I can make friends'. /me dropped phone and backed away

David Michael

Honeybunch wrote:

Yea, I get the point about being careful and if it ever gets out of hand, then it is bye bye and barring the number! No other option.

COMMANDER

I think your situation is more the malicious type and I have been in social gatherings where I have seen guys take girls phones, pretending to admire them, send themsleves a test text to their own phones so as they have senders number! And your situation got seriously out of hand.

In my case, I think being more senior, the "what are you wearing" as in, if I EVER went down that road, would definitely not be SO interesting and would be a complete turn of! If you know what I mean!

The only reason I put up this post is to get all aspects of the good, bad and ugly side and that is always good feedback. Thanks.

Oh YA. you are like SO right. It it like SO right I just burst.

Dennis the Stone

I got a text asking me what I was doing.

I texted back saying 'sorry, you must have made a mistake, I don't know you.'

The person texted back saying 'and what a TERRIBLE mistake I have made! Tell me what makes you happy'

gavrilo princip

humanji wrote:

I once got dumped by txt, by a girl I didn't know. She was quite rude to the guy and said that she'd been cheating on him. I felt kind of sorry for him. And when I sent back "Ok, since you're single, any chance of a blow job?" I got no reply

Did Johnny Logan give you some twisty fries?

Rudolph Claus

and he 'accidentally' called myself and three other friends many times at 2 am on private number for three years while telling the girl that i was doing it to him. this guy really should learn how to use a phone

How did you check who the private number was from?

echter

i like to send accident texts, = "ooooh sorry about that see you're name is next to david so it must of happened my mistake, my bad"

SpAcEd OuT

got a text recently some girl was txtin this lad to say his gf was really sorry and she wanted to get back together and all this.

anyways the gfs name in the txt was eimear which was the same name as one of my ex's so I txted back to my ex 'We went out 2 years ago I've moved on and if you haven't you really should by this stage because its kind of freaking me out''

cue phonecall asking me what the **** I was on about and me going well what the **** were you on about

Nala

I've a good mind to start texting random numbers to ask for a divorce!!! or tell them i'm pregnant!!!

humanji

gavrilo princip wrote:

Did Johnny Logan give you some twisty fries?

No, but he did give me the blowjob I was hankering for.

Sam Vimes

Nuttzy wrote:

How did you check who the private number was from?

lets just say i got access to his call records

Latchy

I am just wondering if this has ever happend to anybody else?

Yes, but would have to pm you all the details LOL

Dudess

David Michael wrote:

Oh YA. you are like SO right. It it like SO right I just burst.

Is that really necessary?

Ever keyed in a text about something that a certain person isn't supposed to know... and then sent it to that particular person because their name is in your head? It sucks.

Rob_l

I have got texts off unknown people texted one back once to tell them i didn't know them got a few texts back told them to get the fubar


I think i have some real friends already,


well they text back when i send them messages1

irlrobins

Friend of mine got a text accidentally off her mum. The text was meant for her lover though. Talk about opening a can of worms...:eek:

cast_iron

I get accidental texts regular.

Someone the other day asking for "Mum's number", I sent it on.
Another one a while back asking me to collect them at time x, location y. I said I'd see them there, don't be late.

And then there's the friends who don't use the keylock and I'm first in the phone book. 5 messages from a good mate telling me how much he loves me. Another mates gf talking about him and sending it to me instead of her cousin.

I laugh and ignore them ones, then show em around the pub (in front of the senders), some have changed the phonebook ordering.

Reku

Honeybunch wrote:

Hey,

I am sure this is common enough, but I recently got a text message -absolutely nothing seedy about it, a straightforward message - but it was meant for a mobile telephone number very similar to mine.

So, being the polite person I am, I replied and said " Sorry this is meant for someone else, etc." So the texter, sent a very apologetic reply and as it was late in the evening, was afraid that I was awakened by it or whatever.
So I said, not at all, that it could happen anyone.

So many weeks later, we have a texting situation going on! And it is actually, quite good fun if not expensive on the mobile phone bill! It turns out that both of us (Me Female, and He Male) have a lot of interests. We describe day at work etc. It is real teenager stuff. Nothing will ever happen cause it just won't and that is the truth.

I am just wondering if this has ever happend to anybody else?

Have gotten many texts not originally intended for me down through the years. As to your situation I've known people to hook up via such scenarios but I'll just warn you that I've also known lads to intentionally send texts to random numbers in the hopes of meeting a girl through the incident (they did manage to hook and reel in a few TBH, which I found both surprising and disturbing).

Honeybunch

Texting randomly just to make friends? Never thought of that. Most definitely, the text I got was certainly not for me because it was to do with an appointment and a name and venue was mentioned and the purpose of the appointment - so certainly not random.

Anyway, any conversation, be it face to face, e-mail, texting or even what we do on this website, can develop as far as WE allow it.

Great to get the different views!

Ruu wrote:

I once got a message just saying hi, how are you and I replied asking who they were. I got another message a few hours later saying 'I text random numbers so I can make friends'. /me dropped phone and backed away

togster

Dudess wrote:

Ever keyed in a text about something that a certain person isn't supposed to know... and then sent it to that particular person because their name is in your head? It sucks.

Yup my mother. Sent her an explicit text for my ex-girlfriend. She sent one back saying "i hope you take precautions"

moco

togster wrote:

Yup my mother. Sent her an explicit text for my ex-girlfriend. She sent one back saying "i hope you take precautions"

I did that once. Meant to text me friend telling her I'd finished with my boyf and generally slagging him off. Sent it to him instead :eek:

I think most of the time these 'accidental' texts aren't accidents, in the case of numbers being a digit or 2 different anyway as people have numbers saved in their phone and don't be typing in the number each time so it doesn't allow for accidents.

Honeybunch

Actually, you are right and wrong about that. I myself when texting always use the pre-fed numbers in the `phonebook` but I know loads of people who tap in the number, mostly the 40`s and 50`s age group because, of the opposite situation - they are afraid they will send the message to the wrong contact name and in some phones if you do that, you cannot reverse the process, whereas when you tap in the number, the recepient`s number comes up to check it, and then send!

So there you have it!


Jeez, I didn't think as OP that I would generate such a response!

moco wrote:

I did that once. Meant to text me friend telling her I'd finished with my boyf and generally slagging him off. Sent it to him instead :eek:

I think most of the time these 'accidental' texts aren't accidents, in the case of numbers being a digit or 2 different anyway as people have numbers saved in their phone and don't be typing in the number each time so it doesn't allow for accidents.

Niamho!

yeah its happened a couple of times. unfortunately the last one was a Weirdo who actually ended up being someone i met once and somehow got my number. but he pretended for ages the big Psycho.

i think its happened a few times but the only other one i can think of was i got a text fomr a bloke from Cork. kinda texted each other every now and again just to say hello but it Fizzled.....not like anything was gonna happen anyway.

Latchy

This only happened recently here in uk , my partners sister who is called Angela live 5 miles away and we were texting her one night to ask would she be able to babysit our young daughter , thing was i sent the text to my sister Angela in Dublin , her reply was '' how the bleeding hell can i babysit your daughter tonight ''? ....... you can imagine the confusion and the laughter , :rolleyes:

Niamho!

Slightly off topic here..... i remember a radio station getting ppl to ring/text in about Disasterous Dates and a girl texted in to say the bloke was sitting across the table and her phone beeped. when she looked it was a messge from him supposed to be for his mate saying "Great personality, lovely Girli but no Tits!" lol. IMAGINE!!

The Bollox

Honeybunch wrote:

I am sure this is common enough, but I recently got a text message -absolutely nothing seedy about it, a straightforward message - but it was meant for a mobile telephone number very similar to mine.

So, being the polite person I am, I replied and said " Sorry this is meant for someone else, etc." So the texter, sent a very apologetic reply and as it was late in the evening, was afraid that I was awakened by it or whatever.
So I said, not at all, that it could happen anyone.

So many weeks later, we have a texting situation going on! And it is actually, quite good fun if not expensive on the mobile phone bill! It turns out that both of us (Me Female, and He Male) have a lot of interests. We describe day at work etc. It is real teenager stuff. Nothing will ever happen cause it just won't and that is the truth.

I am just wondering if this has ever happend to anybody else?

I think I saw this one... what's his name is in it. this is gonna drive me nuts... I got it, the guy from 'Big'... TOM HANKS. funny guy, Tom Hanks, everything he says is a stitch

PeadarofAodh

I remember getting a message along the lines of "Ok fine I'll do it, just PLEASE don't tell mum!"

I think I replied with some threatening "I'm going to tell mum anyway, I want out of this"

No reply unfortunately...

digitally-yours

Honeybunch wrote:

My situation is that I am married for a pretty long time by today's standards and the recipient of the texts has been in a `permanent `relationship for a while but is no longer for some time. This time slot does NOT coincide with the timing of the texts, might I add.

We are at opposite ends of the country and I think that it is more like the old pen pal situation but in a way, it is interesting to hear about other people's lives etc and at the same time, sometimes, it is nearly easier to discuss situations with strangers. It is like watching your favourite actor/actress on the screen, great on the screeen, but could be disappointing if you met them face to face!

Funnily, enough, I quite look forward to getting the text messages, it is like when I was a teenager and having a diary under the bed - only you knew what was in it! A bit silly, I know, if not childish, but hey, we all need a little spice in our lives!! What do you think?

Go and watch the Movie "The Lake House" its a must watch you will like it i am sure !

Reku

Niamho! wrote:

Slightly off topic here..... i remember a radio station getting ppl to ring/text in about Disasterous Dates and a girl texted in to say the bloke was sitting across the table and her phone beeped. when she looked it was a messge from him supposed to be for his mate saying "Great personality, lovely Girli but no Tits!" lol. IMAGINE!!

ROFL:D
Hope she slapped him though.:rolleyes:

Black Swan

Honeybunch wrote:

So many weeks later, we have a texting situation going on! And it is actually, quite good fun if not expensive on the mobile phone bill! It turns out that both of us (Me Female, and He Male) have a lot of interests. We describe day at work etc.

Yes. Happened to me too awhile back...The old "Gosh I'm sorry for my mistake, but can I chat you up ploy.";)

rejkin

a few weeks back i got a message from a girl saying "who's this" we ended up texting a while but i stopped texting her cause she said the weirdest things about herself,it was all so unbelievable so i stopped and then after a few days(even though i hadn't text her) she texts again and says "who's this?" im glad i stopped texting her

Aura

I've mistexted many times with disastrous results but did have a bit of banter thing going ages back with a Irish guy living in NZ when he texted me by mistake. Total random, really funny and a welcome distraction from study at the time.
Imagine actually getting together with someone that way. What a story for the grandkids!

Reku

Aura wrote:

I've mistexted many times with disastrous results but did have a bit of banter thing going ages back with a Irish guy living in NZ when he texted me by mistake. Total random, really funny and a welcome distraction from study at the time.
Imagine actually getting together with someone that way. What a story for the grandkids!

Meh, I'd consider it no better/worse than meeting via the internet. Same thing really, getting to know someone through a faceless medium and then meeting them in real life.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Honeybunch wrote:

My situation is that I am married for a pretty long time by today's standards and the recipient of the texts has been in a `permanent `relationship for a while but is no longer for some time. This time slot does NOT coincide with the timing of the texts, might I add.

That all sounds a bit dodgy, does your husband know about any of this?

Pat the Baker

Niamho! wrote:

Slightly off topic here..... i remember a radio station getting ppl to ring/text in about Disasterous Dates and a girl texted in to say the bloke was sitting across the table and her phone beeped. when she looked it was a messge from him supposed to be for his mate saying "Great personality, lovely Girli but no Tits!" lol. IMAGINE!!

that is something i would do