THE T-9 MISHAP.

This is a story that happened awhile ago. It starts with one friend, Homeless Joe, sending out an invitation to a party he's hosting. He sends it to everyone he knows, which happens to be about one million people. Shortly after that another friend "hijacked" the e-mail and invited everyone on the list to come to her comedy show before the party. Perhaps a bit taboo, but well-intentioned, since some of us were going to the show anyways.

Homeless Joe was a little irked that this had taken place and sent me a text message saying "that broad hijacked my e-mail." Having just seen the e-mail, I texted back "saw that," as in "I'm aware this has taken place." Only I did it using T-9, a function on your phone which allows you to type faster by guessing words from the combination of keys you punch. This time, T-9 got it wrong and I didn't notice; instead of texting "saw that," I had texted "say that," which Joe interpreted as "send an e-mail back chastising her for hijacking your e-mail list." So he sent out a fairly harsh, but very tongue-in-cheek, e-mail calling out the comic friend and jokingly telling people not to go to the show.

Several people didn’t know Joe was friends with said comic, failed to pick up on the sarcasm in his e-mail and responded that he shouldn’t be such a dick. The comic friend did not respond, nor did she ever, leading Joe to believe she was really mad. He then felt bad and sent an e-mail apologizing to everyone.

The story doesn't really have a good ending, since everyone just let it drop after that. But the one-letter mistake that set off this chain of events makes me laugh.

Saw that.
Say that.