The Wrong SMS

This is one of those stories that you listen to and forget. At least that's what I have been doing, until I recently realise that it's common. So common that it may be termed as a phenomenon. I must have heard similar stories more than 10 times since I've started working.

So what's the story?

Different friends have told me that either they or someone else had sent an SMS or, in even more perplexing situations, an email to X containing content which is essentially bitching about X. O_o

Usually, the story-telling would start with a huge bitch fest about X.

A: I tell you... This X... She's absolutely a bitch... She doesn't do much in the office... Dunno how she got this job... I heard she was asked to leave from her previous firm...

BM: Really?

A: Yeah... And that time... We were working on the same project... She was a freeloader. She didn't do much... Always trying to push work to other people. Y and I got so pissed with her...

BM: Wah... Can like that meh?

A: And once, I got so pissed with X, I was complaining to Y about her over SMS when I accidentally sent X the SMS!

BM: WTF? Then how?

A: Act blur lor... She didn't dare to ask me about me... All the more shows that she is guilty, RIGHT?! BITCH! ... blah blah blah... 
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Regardless how frustrating the situation had been for A, I am amazed at how emotional one can get to send an SMS to the wrong person.

One can imagine how the brain, all charged up with negative emotions about X, gets short-circuited, causing the thumbs and fingers to search for X's name in the mobile phone, ultimately pressing the SEND button.

The current day and age are extremely dangerous for one without much self-control, because there are tools within reach everywhere for great damage to be done. Irreparable damage. One can ignore or deny the consequences, but eventually, it will come back and bite you in the behind. *ouch*