One should always take pause prior to hitting the send button on one’s mobile phone. At the weekend, a friend was due to visit with her family and we thought it would be a great idea to go for a walk and have a pub lunch.
Given the wealth of rain we’ve had recently, the prudent advice was to bring appropriate footwear for the occasion, so I sent a text to that effect, or at least, that was my intention. Instead of the abbreviation for Wellington boots, my text read. “Don’t forget your willies”.
Before I could repair my gaff, she responded with “I don’t have a willie”. In fairness to her however, she did arrive with her husband and two sons.
The plague of auto-correction
