This actually happens to me a lot at work…but it’s because:

• I sign work emails with a certificate and sometimes it asks for the password

• My company also has us mark each email with a third-party classification program.

These don’t come up until you hit Send, and sometimes can take several seconds.

So naturally I get distracted, open up a hundred more windows, and eventually reboot.

The really fun thing about this, is that it won’t even save a draft if it was waiting for a password…so Outlook continues to gaslight me on whether or not I wrote the email in the first place.

I’ll come back to the chat two hours later when I suddenly remember that this person hasn’t answered me yet only to find my message, halfway typed out, in the draft box.

Type type type type

Puts phone down

Checks the next days and the message is still there. Haven’t pressed send

It’s worse when it’s professionally. Yesterday I wrote and sent an email before lunch, except near the end of the day I saw I had an email in my Drafts folder and had never actually hit send.