Step away from the keypad! Hilarious texting fails which made people wish they had never hit send
We’ve all been there: you get overzealous about a message and shoot it off without a second thought, before you spot a typo.
Usually they are harmless, but occasionally they dramatically change the meaning of the entire text.
Bored Panda collected a selection of the most hilarious texting mistakes from around the world, including misspellings and speech-to-text mishaps.
In one case, a woman from the US misspelled “leaving” as “lesbian,” leaving her husband in trouble.
Elsewhere, a mother in Oklahoma accidentally instructed her daughter to “drive carefully” and issued a warning to “drive carefully.”
A woman from the US left her husband quite shocked after a simple typo made dramatic claims
In another case, a man who tried to text may have left his grandchild with more questions than answers.
And during a WhatsApp conversation from Britain, a texter also struggled to spell the tricky word “good-natured.”
Here, FEMAIL takes a look at the most hilarious failed messages and how people reacted to them…
A concerned Oklahoma mom may have wanted to double-check her spelling before sending this text message
In an effort to be helpful, a grandfather went out of his way to text, but may have caused more confusion
One couple, believed to be from Britain, ended up on the same page about a “benign” liver growth
This parent wanted to know what their daughter wanted to order, but was left with more questions than answers
This texter, presumably from the UK, was clearly having fun using the text-to-speech feature on their phone
This woman from the US was shocked to find out her husband traveled all the way to Toronto only to discover it was a spelling error
This man from Britain wishes the ground would ‘whole him up’ after this horribly timed typo
One man from Britain definitely ‘nailed it’ when he defied several attempts to spell the word ‘coolio’
One text messager, who is believed to be from the US, worried his mother over a simple misunderstanding