Hey guys you doing anything on jan 09? wanna go skiing?
Show of hands:
- You can make it, and will
- You might be able to make it but you don't know why
- You can't make it but you'll sign up anyway
- You have nothing planned on that day but you still might not make it and probably will cancel the day before
I'm not going to give you the option of 'I can't make it'. Because that's the same sort of answer as #1 - you know what's up and say so
I find that whenever I plan anything, there's about 60% of people who dilly dally and are wishy washy, but they sign up anyway. Case in point: I just spent Sunday playing paintball. We had a teambuy discount where it only cost 15$ and you get 200 rounds of ammo (a 30$ cost), rental gun, jumpsuit, face mask, and training. A very good deal. So I was delegated to get the ticket. I had 48 hours to just get 10 people to sign up.
10 hours before the deadline I had 5 people sign up who was likely to show up and I think 5 maybes. I ask for the money and a few months later I get most of it. Thank God the tickets were good until next year but I wanted to get this over with asap so I push for a December date. Finally decided to do the 6th.
- actually, only 8 people paid for tickets
- three of those people cancel. One ON THE DAY
- I replace one of those people with my brother who was unable to reschedule his teaching gig, so he came later instead of cancelling http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/im...ons/icon14.gif
Thankfully it wasn't mandatory that we have a party of 10. It would've just been fun because then we have 10 newbies playing instead of something like 30 people, 20 of which are seasoned players. Y'know what I mean?
Now we're planning a skiing trip in January. I am already banging my head on the desk in anticipation.
Are you like this? If I ask you to do something do you say 'yes' and then back out or are you 'maybe' until the day of, and then you cancel?
This isn't just this office. I can't hang out with my friends at all. I usually just hang out with one of them at a time. None of my friends have children. People who don't have children sicken me when they can't schedule one random day out of the future to do something.
omg I might be busy. No you won't
omg I can't make it. I need to do nothing.
Years ago I stopped asking Tokkiquil to go out because she'd always flake on me. I stopped doing that because after I last did it, I felt bad and told myself I was being too unreasonable. I don't feel it's unreasonable any more.
(that 150$ buy ended up costing me 30$ btw. Another reason why I think the skiing thing is a bad idea)
