A woman was left red-faced after sending a picture to her lecturer that was meant for her boyfriend - and now she's been forced to apologise.
Sharing her story anonymously, she said that her boyfriend and lecturer have the same first names and they are saved next to each other in her phone - so the accident was waiting to happen.
Hey boyfriend had been teasing her over her choice of literature, which could be smutty at times, and a quote from one book stuck with the pair - 'please punish me, daddy'.
One day the woman found that very book in a shop so took a selfie with it, complete with pout, and captioned it 'please punish me, daddy' and promptly sent it to her university lecturer by mistake.
Posting on Reddit, the woman, based in America, said: "I have this habit of visiting the local bookstore every Tuesday after college. I'd been reading this smut book on Google Play, which like most 'trashy books' has a ridiculous cover with this shirtless guy cradling a girl in lingerie and pink cursive font.
"My partner (S******, name v important) saw me reading it and started dissing the story, poking holes all over the narrative.
"There's a paragraph where the two protagonists seen on the cover are playing pool and the girl loses so she tells the guy to 'please punish me, daddy'."
The next day, the woman was shopping and found a copy of the book and as she had been reading it digitally before, she decided to buy a copy - but not before taking a cheeky selfie to send to her boyfriend.
She continued: "I decided to buy this book as a joke, thought of a funny caption (punish me daddy), sent him a picture of me with the book - Now here's the main f**k up.
"I use WhatsApp as my primary messaging app. You can click pictures through WhatsApp's camera and directly send them by tapping on your contacts. My boyfriend and my psychology professor have the same name i.e S******.
"I save both like this - S******, S****** [Name of college]
"I ended up sending the picture to my professor because his name came up first. Silly mistake, could've deleted right? But I didn't realize this until I got into a taxi and by then there were two blue ticks on the message.
"I was mortified because he could've reported me for breaking student-teacher protocol. The caption 'punish me daddy' and my stupid pout face made things worse.
"A few minutes later I realized the only thing I could do was apologize and say it was an accident.
"So that's what I did and he didn't reply until the next day. When he did he said, 'it's very disruptive to the hallowed student teacher relationship and I do NOT condone this kind of behaviour'.
"It'll probably make classes with him awkward for a while."
After the post was shared online, other Reddit users stepped forward to comfort the woman - with some saying that the professor had overreacted.
One user said: "His response sounds very much like he was saying exactly what he was supposed to in case it was a trap or something.
"But seriously? 'Punish Me Daddy', and he can't make a joke about your poor choice in reading material or even a 'don't worry, I know accidents happen'. Daddy might need to actually read the book and loosen up."
While another added: "Apparently he doesn't know what the word mistake means."
But one user thought that the story started like the start of a romance novel, and urged the original poster to put it onto paper.
They said: "Do you have any writing talent? This sounds like the plot to a rather cute romance novel. Just instead of the teacher being kind of a jerk about an honest mistake, he could just have been so turned on that he was gruff, then eventually after the MCs are no longer teacher/student, they get together.
"I may have read too many romance novels. I have definitely read too many romance novels."
What do you think, did the lecturer overreact? Let us know in the comments.
