b3ta.com qotw
You are not logged in. Login or Signup
Home » Question of the Week » The Onosecond » Post 32262 | Search
This is a question The Onosecond

Wired magazine once defined the 'onosecond' as the time between hitting 'send' and realising that you really didn't mean to send that to your granny.

What inappropriate email/text/photo have you sent to wrong people? Are they speaking to you any more?

(, Thu 26 May 2005, 10:15)
Pages: Latest, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, ... 1

« Go Back

Take it apart
A couple of years ago, having a drunken s3x-text session with a doe-eyed bird from the office while on the bus home I got to the point with the mobile I had at the time of being so damn quick selecting the recipient and sending it off that it was actually faster than the phone could cope with.

So my reply to her asking if I'd be into a 'Menage a trois' (all bull5hit of course - chance would be a fecking fine thing) was sent to my g/f in error.

The Onosecond if run in slow motion would have been as follows (adopts a deep time-stretched slo-mo voice)

0.25 - Seeeeennnnnddd
0.50 - Shhhhiiiiiiiitttttt!!!
0.75 - Senddddding SMS.....
1.00 - Taaake the bacccck offf the fuuuccckkkiingggg phoooonnnnneeee.

Yup, I did the only thing possible at the time and removed the back off the phone including the battery. I thankfully stopped the message from going. I checked the g/f's phone when I got home, she was asleep, there were no new messages. Unless of course she'd got the message, deleted it, filed it away in her little black book and then pretended she was asleep. Anyway, too much detail.

Bless - i'm such a bastard.
(, Thu 26 May 2005, 15:43, Reply)

« Go Back

Pages: Latest, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, ... 1