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PSA

May 11, 2007 at 6:42 am | In drivel, spazzing | 26 Comments

Consider this a public service announcement: Bored texting is dangerous.

(But not as dangerous as drunk testing.)

The other day while suffering through the expo, I entertained myself with ~~annoying~~ texting some of my pals. Three of them to be exact. One friend who, for the record, is a total fucking flirt (takes one to know one), another an old, reliable, charming chum and the third is my friend/coworker. All happen to be male.

In the midst of a texting frenzy where responses were coming in lightning fast from all participants, I got carried away and didn’t pay attention to WHICH one I was responding to. Seeing as how I have different levels of connection/comfortability (did I just make that word up?) with each of them, this is treading on very precarious territory. You know where this is going, don’t you?

I accidentally texted something that could be construed as sexual harassment to my coworker. I am an inadvertent sexual harasser! Me! Former director of a peer education program that specifically worked to combat sexual harassment. Me! The chick with the women’s studies degree. Me!

I am so ashamed.

How would you take it if you received a text response from someone you work with that said, “No, I want you to come here and let me sit in your lap”? Uh. Um. Oh shit. When I realized my error I immediately fired off another text apologizing for the screw up and then another to the person who was supposed to get that message. Luckily my coworker is cool and understands the dangers of bored texting. But now, trust me when I tell you, there will be many a lap joke made at the office. I just hope I can beat him to it each time.

I really should not be allowed to text.

Among many other things.

“And I want to be happy/And I only want you/If you think that I’m crazy/I’m just crazy ’bout you/Crazy ’bout you” -Whiskeytown, Crazy About You

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I think texting the “woops” was good enough but yes, be careful missy!

Comment by Hilly — May 11, 2007 #
OMG, be careful! But that’s still funny! How fun to text a flirt ;)

I once exhausted-emailed Metalia (blogger, don’t know if you read her). The email notification to her first-ever comment on my blog was sitting in my inbox. I blindly hit reply, I thought I was responding to Andrew who was in Spain. I wrote “I’m going to bed now, I love you!” Then it struck me 30 minutes later to check my outbox. Yep, I emailed that sentiment to Metalia, whom I didn’t even know. I was so embarrassed. I emailed her an apology, insisting that I wasn’t a stalker. Luckily, she’s a cool chick with a good sense of humor. Though she was a little bummed that I recanted my profession of love.

Comment by LVGurl — May 11, 2007 #
That is fantastic.

Comment by alissa — May 11, 2007 #
i guess i’m one of those few people that doesn’t text very much but i know a lot that do… i’m usually pretty careful about emails though – when i’m done typing, i double-check what name i’m sending it too… or maybe i’m just really anal… :o)

Comment by jodi — May 11, 2007 #
Ooohhhhhh!! Texting can be soooo dangerous! lol

Comment by The Diva's Thoughts — May 11, 2007 #
Ohhh, as good as I’ve become at texting, I don’t think I’d text with more than one person at a time. So risky. :)

Comment by justrun — May 11, 2007 #
HA! Serves you right… :)

Comment by sue — May 11, 2007 #
I did worse than that. I was attempting to send my man a sexy (yes, it involved the word orgasm) text message after work one night, while driving of course, and made a HUGE mistake. The address book pops up, you know how you hit the key with the letter you need on it? Well, I hit the right key, then send, just glancing at it while driving. Unfortunately, the key choosing the letter push DIDN’T TAKE- so it picked the first person in the phone book. WHO WAS MY BOSS!!! AARGH!! I swear I was blushing so horribly I had to be glowing in the dark. Luckily, he thought it was funny. Even more lucky, he quit a month or so later. Lesson learned, I am very careful now.

Comment by mackies — May 11, 2007 #
LOL… I’ve done this on purpose before to get back at someone. Like an “oops that was supposed to go to him but I sent it to you to mean” kind of thing. But yes… bored texting is dangerous and can be expensive if you don’t have a texting plan… :P

Comment by Keri — May 11, 2007 #
Great story Sizzle. I love the bored text message sent to the co-worker. I’ve done something similar with an email. Damn that text messaging.

Comment by egan — May 11, 2007 #
At least you don’t pick up the phone when it rings while not looking and have innapropriate conversations with people…..not that I have done that.

Comment by Skyzi — May 11, 2007 #
Clearly someone needs a shpankin.

Comment by Melissa — May 11, 2007 #
Well next time you’re in the mood to lap dance, I mean lap text, you have my e-mail. :) And yes, WAY better than drunk texting!

Comment by G-man — May 11, 2007 #
Ouch! Been there! I once (in a tequila haze) confused my PROFESSOR with a guy and sent my prof a text with the line “how about you come over and mess up my bed with me?’ Mortifying does not even begin to describe…

Comment by brandy — May 11, 2007 #
Oooo I feel your cringe. At least you know the whole extent of it and can make appropriate explanations. I had a friend who had her phone stolen at a bar and whoever took it sent some crazy stuff out. At least your phone isn’t sending blatant come-ons to your uncle without your knowledge!

Comment by PocketCT — May 11, 2007 #
I just knew that shit would get you into trouble one of these days. Question is, whose lap were you REALLY wanting to sit in?

Comment by Karl — May 11, 2007 #
Hopefully it was so out of context that they knew it was a mistake. Then, that would leave them wondering who exactly you were texting that to :)

Comment by Scott — May 11, 2007 #
Welcome to my worst nightmare. Me sending [insert form of electronic communication here] to an un-intended recipient by accident which gets me shit canned from my job. :: shiver ::

Comment by Dustin — May 11, 2007 #
At least you know you’ll always have a lap to sit in!

Comment by Dawn — May 11, 2007 #
So, did he come over?

Comment by whit — May 11, 2007 #
‘eh, what’s the fun of texting without a goof up now and again? :)

Comment by Traveling Chica — May 11, 2007 #
Are you sure it was a goof? ;)

Comment by Lisa — May 11, 2007 #
ummm…i don’t text, don’t you know how expensive it is?

well, maybe, if i upgraded my plan to the 21th century, i could afford such a thing.

let me guess, you have an ipod…

i’m so technilogically unadvanced.

Comment by gorillabuns — May 11, 2007 #
seeing as we have inappropriate crap flying around all the time, that doesn’t seem all that bad. and pretty darn funny.

Comment by aimee/greeblemonkey — May 12, 2007 #
That happened to me once. I was texting with a friend and a guy that was hitting on me, and accidentally sent him a text that was meant for my friend saying something not so nice about him… needless to say the guy didn’t talk to me for months!

Comment by Jen — May 12, 2007 #
ROFL That is hilarious, Sizzle. I think you should actually continue texting. It makes for great blog fodder.

I think I did that once. Texted something very inappropriate to the wrong name in my cell phone directory. I tried to shut my phone before it sent. The girl never mentioned if she got the message.

Comment by Bone — May 13, 2007 #