Ever typed in the wrong window and straight into an embarrassing situation?
One of the Woot mods had a little copy/paste slip up tonight in the quality posts (now fixed). It made me chuckle that they copied probably the 1 line from their IM conversation that would be embarrassing and made me think about the numerous times I've done that kind of thing inadvertently admitting to a crush, starting an argument, replying-to-all stuff that really should have remained private, etc. Freudian slips or just stupid mistakes it's still embarrassing.
Care to share some of your embarrassing slip-ups?
P.S. To the mod in question - a couple of months younger is no big deal. A few years maybe but not just a couple of months.
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prosperouscheat
asked 6 months ago
Yeah, don't worry. He'll never know. How often does someone sniff a vase anyway? I mean, I'm sure the crazy glue smell will dissipate before he gets back from his business trip. Besides, I'd worry more about getting your story straight with her. Speaking of ... is she still having to sit on that doughnut thing? Oh, and have you seen this? http://5z8.info/smut_a3d4vy_click-on-this-and-youll-be-taken-to-page-that-will-create-pop-up-windows-until-your-browser-crashes
Ugh. Facebook Fail. I despise "awesome." It's overused as a slang term for "good."
I was following the recovery of an older child of my husband's friend. The family used FB to keep every one apprised of improvements/set backs. It was a great idea.
I "liked" the good progress reports, & rarely made comments. I'm not a very religious person. I don't feel there is a higher power who's controlling everything in our lives: high school football games, the ability to pass a test, or relearn how to button a shirt. WE are the ones who do. Us & our brains.
So when every damned update of this child winning a game of checkers, taking a dump solo, etc., was followed by "how awesome" God was, "how awesome was God that he let" the child learn to do this & that, I inwardly rolled my eyes & thought I'd scream if I heard one more person use "awesome". I clicked over to a friend's page, some one who uses awesome to describe anything & everything in her life.
(cont.)
(Cont.) While I live & speak Southern slang, I try to use proper punctuation & grammar if I can correctly remember the rules.
Sure enough, there on her page was her comment of how AWESOME the refried beans were at this new Mexican place, and wasn't it AWESOME that the traffic lights were now all properly timed? Her freshly bathed dog now smelled AWESOME.
Really? The refried beans inspired you with awe? Beans. Awe. Truly? "Awesome" 3 times in one post. Something snapped inside of me and the Snark Queen awoke.
And this is when it happened. I wrote "You keep using that word 'awesome.' I do not think it means what you think it means. ;)" Unfortunately, and I still don't know how it happened, my comment landed on the recovering child's update page, right under someone's use of "awesome."
Unfortunately, I couldn't delete the comment before it was seen, even though I tried. I explained what happened to a mutual friend, unsubscribed, & stayed off FB for weeks.
LMAO - i texted my husband this morning while he was out hunting and sent it to one of my freinds instead -
@lavikinga: AWE
Awesome Beans: Me - Those were great beans. toot. You - Awwwwwwww damn man
Awesome newly timed lights: Me - Don't worry, I can totally run this yellow. It's on a 15 second timer! HA! You - No, they've ben fix-AAAAWWWWWHHHHHH!!!!
Awesome Clean Dog: Me - I just gave Rover a bath. I found him in walking out your back door and he reeked of urine. You - AAAAAWWW What the hell!!!!
I don't remember this happening to me...but maybe that's why I don't get many IMs?...
at my previous job, everyone used AIM to chat and not have to talk out loud to bother everyone else. on the other side of me sat a manager. i'd had enough and wanted to tell my coworker how annoyed i was at the manager for an incident that kept happening. so while i was thinking of the manager's name, i opened up an IM WINDOW FOR THAT MANAGER and typed up my comment. it was something that i wouldn't say to their face like "ulgh i'm so annoyed at , he keeps _!!"
after i hit "send" i stopped and thought ARGHH what did i do?!? the manager read it and thankfully wrote it off for the most part. he was relatable enough that i just played it off and followed up with "oh hi _, i was just messing with you. how's it going?" and added some smiley faces lol. now i'm paranoid about where i type to
wedit: apparently 3 underscores will bold and italicize the same as 3 asterisks. weird!
Hahaha...now I'm really curious as to what it was...
@lavikinga: That made me cringe. Awesome story tho!
@prosperouscheat: :P~
when I was in college I used to have multiple conversations at once with AIM. I'd have four or five windows open at once. Not sure if anyone remembers, but the AIM of the late 90's had a major flaw that haunts me to this day. If you were typing in one window to person A, and person B sends you a message, person B's window became the active window. So if you weren't paying attention (or if you had to look at the keyboard like I did, and just hit Enter when you were done), you'd send the back-half of person A's message to person B.
Not a good thing when you were talking about what you thought of person B...
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