Drunk texting makes for red faces

[buckthesystem]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4379601a4560.html

Mortally embarrassed by a text message sent when drunk? You are not alone.

Now New Zealanders are joining more than 300,000 other drink-texting victims who are using a support group on the social networking site Facebook.

Sometimes it is an amorous message to Dave or Danielle on your contacts list, only to find out from the silence at breakfast the next day that you sent it to Dad instead.

Or when predictive text turns "I want to lick you all over" into "I want to kick you all over".

Or when fuzzy thinking while thumbing a drunken text rant about a third person ends with it being sent to them instead of the intended recipient.

Help, or at least commiseration, is available through the Drunken Text Appreciation Society, which in four months has attracted hundreds of thousands of fans.

Among them is Aucklander Craig Stanton, who joined the group after receiving a late-night text from an American woman stating: "I foot hugo and I peewd in drivdwwy."

He said: "Her foot was hurt and she had peed in someone's driveway. Obviously a classy girl, as you can tell."

A small and unscientific poll in central Christchurch showed drink-texting was a rampant social trend, as Claire Green and Amy Rodger, Aucklanders who were both in Christchurch for the Bon Jovi concert, confirmed.

Rodger said she once received a message about her that was sent to her by mistake.

"It was from a friend of mine who was seeing someone she shouldn't have been seeing," she said.

"It said, 'Amy is coming around but she won't stay long'. It was meant to be sent to the other person but it was sent to me."

Green said looking out for friends involved keeping an eye on their cellphone use.

"You have to watch your friends. When you see your friend swaying in the corner, you've got to grab that phone off them," she said.

She said she once sent a text to a female friend about a guy but mistakenly sent it to the guy.

"It was very, very embarrassing," she said.

"It was kind of complimentary but it was girl talk that you're not supposed to send to guys."

They were familiar with the perils of predictive text, particularly with a friend named Siah, she said.

"In predictive text it comes out as 'Rich' or 'Shag'," she said.

Predictive texts were the source of many of the most embarrassing messages identified on the Facebook group.

One texted from outside a nightclub to friends inside, complaining about the "f...... queue", only for queue to emerge as "Steve". Another tried to say he was willing to be patient: "It's ok, no hurry, I've got ages", only to find his cellphone had changed the last word to "aids".

One man with an optimism matched only by his brevity sent a female friend the message: "Fancy a f...?", only to find predictive text sanitised the last word to "dual".

She replied: "Andy, unfortunately I hav no desire 2 don full body armour, a sword, and a shield, grab my horse and ride over to urs for a 'dual'. Oh, and I certainly dont want sex with u!"

Misdialling was the cause of many other cringeworthy moments on the morning after a big night.

One British woman said her 80-year-old grandmother received a text from a stranger that stated: "Hi, you wrote your number on my stomach last night but I can't quite make out the name. Did you have a good night? Nick."

[ladypeartree]

not only do we now have

Dont drink and drive

but also

dont drink and dial

[Bubba4J]

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