Even in the best of times wires are always crossed. In this current time of the screen we have to be diligent to not send the wrong text to the wrong lover. It's all too confusing. But mishaps are inevitable. So the people on this list are clearly feeling the stress.
Shocked Bbc Three GIF by BBCLet me Tell you about "Her"
A coworker kept screwing things up and I was the one who was fixing it. This particular instance wasn't too egregious, but she had a pattern of reading half a request doing the part she read and flagging it as complete despite having no response to the back half of it. It was resulting in complaints that were funnelling back to me. Our clients were frustrated and so I was frustrated.
So I went into our internal messaging system to vent to another coworker, saying it sure would be nice if she'd freaking read the full requests instead of half-assing crap all the time. My friend didn't respond. On the way out of the office the coworker who made the mistake apologized to me and I was left standing there thinking "but wait... I hadn't even talked to you about it yet." Well... yeah I had. I had messaged it directly to her instead of to my friend. She quit the next day.
Grandma Said...
Accidentally sent this meme to the group chat my grandma made to wish all the grandkids happy (insert holiday here).
I meant to send it to my brother. He (in the group chat) almost immediately replied with This one
I didn't realize it was the group chat, but he full well knew it was and began crap posting. The new group chat from my grandma made no longer includes me or my brother. She just texts us individually.
Hey Harry
frustrated one direction GIFGiphyI thought I was typing in Spotify but instead I texted my boss "Harry Styles" out of nowhere.
How many whoops can you have before you realize you're not paying enough attention? Several and then some... that's how many. Because there are way too many apps to communicate and live on. I refuse to download one more system. How are we suppose to make communication easy when all the ways to do it is difficult. Everyone who responded to this thread gets me. Whatever happened to just picking up a phone. That's a direct line.
What are you doing??
A friend of mine was being extremely clingy for weeks and demanding my attention all the time. When I took time to answer, she even wrote "why don't you answer?? What are you doing??" I took a screenshot of the conversation and accidentally sent it to her, instead of another friend... Whatsapp delete message feature did not exist back then unfortunately.
Drunk Dave
Only a close call (thankfully) but was sending an "adult" message to a guy I was seeing called Dave. Dave and Dad are very similar when drunk...
Playing Games
My brother and I are up late playing video games online (so we're talking through a headset... he lived 7 hours away at the time), lots of drinking, catching up, talking about life. He's telling me about a girl he was seeing for a while but there were some cultural differences so their relationship fizzled out a few months ago and they haven't spoken since. I tell him to send me a picture of her and he says "okay, hold on."
A few seconds go by and he says "oh my god, nooooo." He sent the girl a picture of herself... at like 2am... when they haven't spoken for months. He was cringing so hard and I was laughing so hard. I told him to play it like he was trying to add photos to his contacts or something and messed up. She responded and was cool about it lol.
Whoops...
Drew Barrymore Oops GIF by NETFLIXGiphyI was posting a funny meme to a group chat but accidentally posted it to a more serious group chat, which would be ok, but someone told us about the passing of their father earlier that day so it was very awkward. This was like a year back don't really remember. If I'm not mistaken it might have been one about a very unenthusiastic car salesman, or overly enthusiastic. I really don't remember.
Dad Bod it is...
As an inside joke, one of my friends' names in my phone is "Dad Bod." His name is directly above my father's in my contact list. Some time ago, I called "Dad Bod" and left him a message saying I needed him to pick up my antidepressants on his way home from work, and asked if he wouldn't mind getting a box of tampons while he was at the pharmacy. I still think about it sometimes when I can't sleep.
When on Craigslist...
I was selling a dining table on Craigslist, and had the usual back and forth with tons of people. One of them texted me a couple days later of an uncouth meme about the town we live in by mistake and was really embarrassed.
I sent one back, and we talked crap about some of the stuff going on in our area for a couple days (big scandal). Seemed like we were budding into a real friendship! Alas, my inability to text people back in a timely manner to the kabbash on something that might have been wonderful.
I fear we're never going back to the old way of life; you know, when people met in person and not over technology. Group meetings are especially arduous to navigate. No matter how proficient one becomes, we're still gonna miss and mesh meetings. The world is juggling a new way of face to face and it has its bumps in the road, so we're all going to have to learn together. I hope my Zumba people enjoyed my catharsis. It can be good ammo for the burn.
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The best part about connecting to colleagues is being witnessed to their snafus – whether it's having NSFW objects in the background, or a significant other inadvertently making their naked debut for all to see.
Curious to hear hilarious anecdotes, Redditor Riverascus asked:
"Students, what's the funniest thing that happened in Remote Learning?"
Check The Mic
"One time a girl in my english class accidentally spent a solid 10 minutes talking to her boyfriend with her mic and camera on. She went into personal life details at points but no one wanted to be the one to tell her. She eventually took out a bong, which was when another student quickly said 'uhhh... [name], your camera and mic are on.' She turned both off without a word. Easily most awkward case of forgetting about the mic."
It Was Such A Gas
"At the end of the class, the lecturer said thank you and good bye to everyone, but forgot to turn the screen and mic off, the did a massive fart and a huge audible sign of relief; paarrpp Ahhhh."
"My professor was an Old Italian man. Great teacher, and speaking English was rarely an issue as he spoke it almost perfectly, just with a heavy accent."
"That is until one day on a zoom he launches into a story about 'being fisted by [his] brother.' He was like '- for example like when I was a child. There was this one time when my brother was fisting me really hard,' and suddenly the whole class was just staring eyes glued to the screen."
Semantics
"He then continued (must read in heavy old man Italian accent) '-He was fisting me really hard and it was hurting-' (he is currently thrusting his fist back and forth through the air to the bemusement of the class) '-but he was my older brother so there was nothing I could do to stop his vigorous fisting. Until one day... One day I grow up big and strong enough to fist him back- ' (proceeds to thrust his other fist through the air in the opposite direction, miming 'fisting,' his brother back) '- and I fist him so hard that he become scared of my fisting! He never wanted to be fisted by my again, and so I never again had to be scared of his fisting.'"
"Everyone was silent and trying not to laugh until someone posted a link to the urban dictionary page for fisting in the chat. My prof started laughing so hard we thought he was going to die (he was pretty old) before playing a small game of charades and finally figuring out that he didn't know the English word for 'punching.'"
Class Is Over
"Professor started talking like he was giving a presentation. After like ten minutes, someone finally pointed out he wasn't sharing his screen. At that point he just gave up for the day and let us go super early."
Missing Undies
"Our teachers toddler wandered in saying that 'daddy wants to know where you hid his underwear'. We could not stop laughing. I think it turned out she hadn't hidden it and it was just in the wash."
Hilarious Forecast
"Professor's internet crashed. The class continued with one guy changing his Zoom background to a weather report of some random city. He proceeded to give a legit sounding news report of the weather. When the professor came back, he finished it off with 'Back to you, professor!' Had me in tears."
Post-Class Discussion
"Not a student but teacher. I completely embarrassed myself by forgetting to end the recording after a Google Meet lesson...so the last 5 minutes of the session is me talking to my cat. Our school doesn't have the premium software to edit the recordings so it had to go up on Google Classroom, cat chat and all. Kids were asking how 'fluffy butt' (my cat) is doing. Hilarious but mortified!!"
Free Dance Concert
"A couple weeks ago I'd lost track of time and didn't realize that zoom had started. My lovely daughter turned the camera toward me and unmuted herself....as the whole class watched me dance with and sing to my dogs. I didn't know until she pulled off her headphones and I heard a dozen kids laughing."
"Last semester, my son's class saw my husband set the kitchen on fire."
"Teachers hate my house. Lol"
Lesson In Poultry
"One of my friends screamed as loud as he could "OH FU*K" When my teacher asked him what was wrong he said, and I quote. 'Sorry i just got attacked by my rooster' my teacher was just like Will, show me your rooster, he then proceeded to go outside and show my teacher his 10 chickens out side. Literally wasted half a class and was an absolute legend."
The Oath
sir i queue better from a distance yo waddup elessar GIFGiphy"I have sworn an oath of solitude until the pestilence is purged from the lands."
The Box
There's an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/2346/
"Haunted plague box" is the best description of a house.
Roll camera...
"I'd love to meet, but I don't want to risk it. Do you want to video chat though?"
Yes oh god. Last year I moved from FL to CA and everyone back in FL wants to come visit. Like id love for everyone to come out but it's just not safe. They ask every few months and it's always the same answer: let's wait until spring next year.
Truth
Truth Reaction GIF by moodmanGiphy"I don't want to meet because I'm scared of Corona." jibsand
Just be upfront yeah. Sometimes I'll indicate it's because I see older relatives often to take the burden off of me a bit.
ZOOM
"Hey, I really want to hang out but I'm worried about the Corona Virus." If they're really your friend they'll respect your opinion. Then maybe suggest doing something like a zoom conversation or online game.
My friends and I meet on Zoom every week now. Sometimes we all start the same movie at the same time, sometimes we play games. We were all learning how to cook a dish together a few weeks ago. There are tons of options to get people together without seeing them in person yet, OP.
never too careful
I work in healthcare. Be cautious. We have regular meetings and emails where our doctors keep us up to date. There's so much we still don't know.
I almost died earlier this year and was (maybe still am) immuno compromised. I've chosen to self isolate as much as possible.
I recently had a coworker acquaintance harrass me about visiting me. She knows my situation but continued to insist it was ok for her to visit. I've never invited her over for various reasons. It got so bad that I had to block her.
My elderly disabled mom tested positive for covid-19 a week later. We aren't sure who infected her and she's currently in isolation. You can never be too careful.
"Be in"
Got a whole friend group who care about each other and want to take the most precautions we can to protect each other. Then there's one guy who's been teaching summer classes for children for the last three months who's always the first to "Be in," and constantly flaunts protections to the point those of us who are taking this seriously can't hang out without excluding him or hurting his feelings.
For Mom
Mothers Day Love GIF by Animation Domination High-DefGiphyI've had to tell my friends several times that despite wanting desperately to hang out with them, that I'm still paranoid about the virus and I don't want to risk getting my mom sick, so I've been staying self isolated.
Looking Back
Learning to advocate for my/your own health was very tough, but the rewards are limitless with effort.
On the few times I've been rebuffed, the response I give is, "I'd rather look back on this and say I'm embarrassed about how I overreacted than wish I hadn't let myself get so sick." That's placated everyone I've used it on.
Cut Ties....
cardi b ok GIF by PepsiGiphyI have cut ties with one friend during the lockdown because of this. She didn't freak out but she got snarky after I turned down her request to meet in a park for a walk. Then she became very weirdly passive-aggressive. I had been having issues with her before the pandemic, and realized I just had no interest in dealing with her weird personality anymore.
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