Oops! Man texts wife, not lover

MELBOURNE, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Text to self: When having an affair, make sure to text your girlfriend, not your wife as one Australian Lothario recently did.

Serial lover Shane Warne swore to his wife -- with whom he was trying to reconcile -- that he would end his extramarital flings, but was caught red-thumbed when he mistakenly sent a cell-phone text message meant for his latest lady-friend to his wife, the Daily Mail reported Monday.

Simone Warne had agreed in December to take back Warne after he courted her for several months in hopes of reconciling following their divorce after 10 years of marriage.

Sending the text message from his home in Britain, Warne wrote, "Hey beautiful, I'm just talking to my kids, the back door's open."

When his wife's cell phone beeped at her home in Melbourne, she had the evidence that he'd been cheating on her again, the British newspaper reported.

Her reply was succinct: "You loser, you sent the message to the wrong person."

"I'm absolutely devastated," she says. "But it was the wake-up call I needed."