I'm bummed... 6119

On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 22:31:27 GMT, Siobhan Perricone

I believe I will have the above quote printed up and pasted in a prominent part of my house where our son-in-law can see it. He seems to think that family dinner invitations allow him to bail at the last minute to go do something as urgent as go to the bars or the movies with his pals. This means, I have to remove a place setting, which is not that big a deal, but I usually remove the place setting Very Loudly, b-c it p*sses me off. I'm giving some serious thought to telling him, "Oh, btw, I am just going to buttume from now on that you're not coming to dinner with Jen and the girls unless you telephone me otherwise."

As to Cyndi, I'm with you. My mother would have had me drawn and quartered if I'd stood someone up like this. I believe she'd rather it be said that I am an ax liquidateer and rude. Were I in Cyndi's shoes, I'd be tempted to waltz into work on Monday and, when the (hopefully inevitable) welluh, welluh, welluh excuses start drifting in, airily proclaim that life is a series of learning experiences and I guess what this experience taught me was that invitations issued at work seem not to rise to the level of importance as invitations issued outside of work, so I won't be making *that* mistake again.

Or maybe I'd just let it slide - I'd have to work with these people and, for some reason, when people have wronged you, they're more likely to find that a reason to dislike you. Go figure.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

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