So, there I was last night…trying diligently to attack my accounting homework (that means sailor vocabulary, pulling hair, throwing pencils…the usual happy environment during current, cash debt coverage, and inventory turnover ratios. I got my Associate’s Degree in Accounting, then changed my major. Doesn’t that give the school a tiny hint that I hate it? Did they mention the mandatory Accounting 561 course was in the MBA program? NO. Would I have changed my mind about higher education? Maybe.) …minding my own business…when I receive a text from my college daughter that said, “My opposum thanked me today for buying an App. Something you want to tell me woman?”
First of all, the apple doesn’t sound anything like the tree, right? Lol. She is my girl and it shows. I may need to apologize to her later for having that effect, but for now, I couldn’t be more proud of this kid. She is just one awesome…human.
Second of all, she was the first in the house to begin the iTunes account many years ago, therefore the email address on file is hers. We share her username and password so we can all share the same materials. No sense in buying the same song five times, right?
Third, if anyone goes into the account and changes the credit card on file to their own to purchase something and doesn’t change it back to mine…well, my next few purchases are on you and I certainly appreciate it! (Actually, it amounts to doing bank transfers to pay them back, so it’s really not as fun as it sounds.)
So, back to the text. I wrote her back, “Opossum???” She responds with, “OMG, Mom…I wrote Ipod and it autocorrected to Opossum!”
I fell apart.
That is one of the FUNNIEST autocorrects I’ve been personally involved with…and I couldn’t stop laughing. We’ve had a couple good ones, but nothing like this where she was thanked by an opposum. And all I kept thinking was don’t you have to have used that word in your texting experiences for it to autocorrect to that? Why in the world would she have the word Opossum in her history file and not Ipod?? Maybe I don’t wanna know!
It went on for hours. She talked about my visit in a few weeks, and I told her “yes, I am still coming down so move your opossum over and make room for me”…she’s twenty years old…we can talk like that now and it’s so much fun, however she did call me a bad name after that last text. Think I should ground her? Actually, I wish she’d ground me.
But the whole incident reminded me so much of the “Damn You Autocorrect” examples that have floated around emails and is posted all over the internet, so I thought I’d share my tear filled laughter with all of you and repost some here…. it is FRIDAY after all!
Here are some of the funnier ones (GRANDMA AND MOM, IF YOU’RE READING THIS, NOW WOULD BE THE TIME TO STOP! RATED- R MATERIAL AHEAD):
Thanks DamnYou AutoCorrect!!!!
Thanks Brandi! I know your daughter is younger, but I’m sure you already have established the same great relationship with her. It’ll only get better! Thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment. Happy Bloggin’ to yah (or should I say Joggin’!)
Thanks for that…I have now laughed so hard that my daughter asked me if I was okay.
Lol!! Always a good sign…thank you!
Too funny. There was an autocorrect error in our area that ended up in a swat team going out to some school and arresting a kid who they suspected would be shooting up the school. He was trying to tell his mom he was staying at the school….Thank you for signing up to follow my blog! I hope that you will be entertained with the photos, recipes and commentary! Barb
OMG Barb! Glad everyone can laugh about it now. Wow. And…I’m sure I’ll enjoy your blog since I enjoy “photos, recipes and commentary”!! Keep in touch and happy bloggin’ to ya.
I laughed so hard I had to take off my glasses and there are tears running down my face.
Mission accomplished!! So glad when these blogs make people laugh and forget about the real world for awhile. Thanks for stopping by and for the wonderful comment.
I gotta good ‘laff outta that!! Thanks!! Maybe i should tell you about my daughter’s “angry beaver” . . . and yeah it had nothing to do with beaversat all . . . . just a term we settled on that she could use to tell her boyfriend “not right now . . . I have a yeast infection” . . . simply too much information for ME – and NOT what a father had in mind when he had this kid, LOL! But glad she can discuss such things with me. (and . . . life of a dad – she says I’m the only one she can feel comfortable farting with around . . . which just goes to show: what goes around comes around – Whew! whutta stench! LOL!)
Lol! I just went through and read this blog again since it’s been awhile….and I’m still laughing! That coffee and snatch one KILLS me! What a great Mom!
glad you enjoyed it and isn’t it terrific having such fun with our older kiddos? I love the openness of our relationships, but yeah I’m with you on the angry beaver bit. TMI!!! 
Hilarious!
Thanks for stopping in gracefully!!
Best laughing fit I’ve had all week, thanks! The opossum one was funny, but the ones you added were even better: *botch. *Botch. Fudge a duck. *Botch. You know what, I give up. And the french venerialdisease, and the snatch… LMAO
Thanks!
Hahaha, that “snatch and coffee…you’re the best Mom ever” had me laughing FOR DAYS!! Thanks for dropping by and for leaving a comment. Stop by again soon and happy bloggin’
Laughing so hard I am crying! hysterical!
Another satisfied reader!! Yay team! I laugh at these same ones every time I read them. Love them. Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again!
OMFG I can’t stop laughing.
Great, aren’t they? Thank you for becoming a follower!
omg can not stop laughing these just proves that tech like auto correct can produce unintentional results. espically love the snatch one.
That’s my favorite one too! Best mom ever! Lol!! Thanks for stopping by!
This is hysterical!
Thank you! Appreciate you stopping by and commenting. Happy bloggin’!!
…I edit voice rec software for my day job, and you should see some of those bloopers
I have to follow you, after all of those laughs.
Thanks so much! Please, please, please let me know when you blog about those bloopers! I bet they are hilarious!!
I’ll give you an example….
“The patients skin is yellow. She denies eating a lot of cats.”
….what the guy really said was, she denies eating a lot of carrots.
Since I usually write poetry, and will probably never blog the comments, I’d be glad to ship over a bunch at some point
omg! That’s hilarious! Some people say cats are a delicacy! Lol. Anytime you’re up to it, come on over and post some bloopers….or you can email a bunch to me and I’ll list you as author! Sounds like fun to me…:-)
You’re on
woooowhoooo! A partnership in blog world is created. Welcome Susan, an honorary Expert of None! Lol…what an awful title.
Fitting, though! Will give me something to do besides fix those bloopers!
I shouldn’t have read this so early in the morning. I couldn’t help laughing, which set off the cockatoo. Now my husband is up.
The irony in your article is a friend loves opossums and uses it as an avatar sometimes. She also is addicted to coffee–two subjects that come up with hilarious results.
Thanks for sharing this!
Haha, an opossum as an Avatar? Too funny and I’d love to see it. Thank you for stopping by and commenting and I’m sorry “we” woke up your hubby!
These are so funny! I don’t know what it is about autocorrects but they make me laugh so hard I can barely breathe – tears rolling down my face!
I know, right?! I think it’s because we can envision ourselves looking down at our phones thinking WTH?? Lol. So glad you enjoyed it and hope to see you out here again soon!
i LOVE autocorrects!! My mom doesn’t have a smart phone, I have an iPhone (huge autocorrecter!) and my mom doesn’t understand that when she gets really strange texts from me, I didn’t write that on purpose!!
lol!! Sounds like great conversations.
thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!
Apparently autocorrect can’t spell either, because there is only one “p” and two “s” in opossum. How do I know? Because my opossum thanked me today for buying an apple. No, really… I have a pet opossum and he just loves apples, and he makes this very cool sounding noise that only opossums can make, when they’re happy to get an apple!
But seriously, I literally laughed out loud at the Ipod to opposum autocorrect.
That’s a weird but very funny one, and it doesn’t cause the embarrassment I felt the night I sent my wife a message telling her how much I loved her beautiful and wonderfully shaped “beasts”. But at least she thought it was funny… No, not what I was going for, but hey at least I made her laugh.
Oh btw, Thanks for following my blog “Word Play – A Place For Pleasurable Procrastination” I love to make people laugh, and I’ll try to keep you abused.
:-0 thanks for visiting!!
My worst most recent was the email I sent to the senior leadership team and accidentally called Stu, “stud”. Something along the lines of “I appreciate your input, Stud”…. UGH!
Omg, that one is priceless!!! Thanks for the laugh :-0
One of these days I’m going tell autocorrect, “you’re wrong!” Lol
Wouldn’t that feel awesome?! Shame we can’t just reach out and slap it one good time…especially when you end up accidentally sending something really explicit to YOUR PARENTS! hahaha…
I almost sent something inappropriate the other day. I was going to type ANAK (child in Malay, my language). The bugger changed it to ANAL ! God! Really? That would have been embarrassing. Haha!!
Oh no, that would have been AWFUL! Funny…but awful! LOL.
OMG, I needed that laugh! 2nd one was my fave! Thanks for stopping by my blog
Backatcha!! Have a great Monday.
Hahahaha…I too have fallen victim to AutoCorrect and I have past postings to make my case!
I will go check them out!! Thanks for visiting
That just made me laugh so much! My husband now thinks I am losing it. Totally worth it though.
lmao this is hilarious. thank goodness I turn OFF autocorrect on my devices. Ahh, the power of knowing how to spell
saves me the embarrassment of trying to explain a mishap due to autocorrect.
Shhhh, don’t tell anyone else! I get free entertainment from their mishaps!!!!!
Thanks for stopping by!
lol I don’t blame you! and no problem. thanks for posting
Way too funny.
) Makes me happy to be an English teacher (aka: anal retentive about proofing EVERYTHING before it “goes out” in whatever form). Thank you for helping me start my day with laughter and, btw for the follow. Looking forward to your comments and posts.
Always good to have an English teacher on your side….uhm, always well? hahaha…thanks Cheri!
Nope, “good” is good. lol Happy to be here.
So glad my auto correct button has not found me on my new phone…I have all I can do to shake it to make it turn side ways to get it to type like a keyboard…people think It has been in the pool and I am getting water out of it lol…I cant even imagine dealing with that lol…Thanks for the laugh…
lol!! I know it hates swimmer’s ear!
I guess I’m no longer a 57 year old virgin because this is the first time I’ve laughed so hard that my tears rolled all the way down to my Ginie! (phonetically = Jai-knee, pleasant nickname for vagina)
:D
Hahaha!!! And all this time I thought it was a who-ha…too funny seapunk! Glad you enjoyed the blog. Thank you for visiting.
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Too funny! Autocorrect is crazy! My sons phone always corrects LOL to lollipop ?!? It does cause some hard to follow conversations.
I bet! Too funny. Thanks for stopping by!
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Thanks, you too! Great fun!
You are seriously funny! Autocorrect is giving my husband some trouble as of late, I think it’s hilarious!
Thanks Jenna…autocorrect can really make a mess of things!
That was a root… Uh, riot… Lol
Haha! Glad you enjoyed it
That’s a nicely made answer to a challenging qeusiton
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