A CLUMSY OVERSIGHT

I am the one person who is so meticulous when texting. Since I like my messages to look properly drafted with the correct use of punctuation, and without errors, I am mostly reading slowly, in my head, to make sure it comes(reads) correct to the recipient. And it doesn't matter if we've been chatmates for so long or that you understand that it may have been some error that missed my eye, I don't like those.

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However, nothing prepares us for these things. One minute, you draft a message, proofread it and send, and the next you're looking at the mess that autocorrect put you in, or you're thinking about how to tell your pastor that you are not responsible for writing that kind of message and it's the devil's handiwork when you accidentally send a long love poem to him/her. Something that was supposed to go to the fine guy/girl that's entering your eye.
I don't know how but these mistakes -the texts- always go to the wrongest of the wrong persons(pardon my English. Not to the people that you could easily tell that, 'sorry, it was a mistake,' and the whole thing will end there.

I've never really had these mistakes. Well, autocortect does its thing sometimes, but it's usually nothing to be embarrassed over. However, one time, I sent a message to somebody else.

That one time, I was away from home but planned to go back for a short while. I asked my cousin to get me something, a personal effect that I would need upon my arrival home. I got back home and did not see my cousin or the stuff that I had asked her to buy. She had called me earlier to say that she got the stuff and it was on my bed and she would not be home when i got back. But I didn't find it there.

And so I picked up my phone and typed a message asking, 'Where's the thing i asked you to buy? I can't find it where you said you kept it o.'' I clicked the send button without really cdosschecking.

I went on to do other things as that was a busy day for me, only to get back to my phone to find two missed calls and several whatsapp messages from a male friend. Apparently, I mistakenly sent the message to him and not to my cousin. Shame nearly kee me walahi. Those are the kinds of mistakes one doesn't make.
Especially not me.

I explained that it was a mistake. Guy said he was just shocked when he saw it, and it got him confused for a moment, but that it was nothing. He even made jokes about it. My guys are cool people. I still don't know how I managed to miss their names, but well... stuff happens.

After that incident, I was always careful not to have a repeat of it. I'm careful to check if my messages go to the intended recipient.

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