Cancelling on friends

HS3

I used to be a serial canceller If it was a one on one meet up no. But if it was a group night out I used to cancel all the time. I became known for it so they stopped inviting me, which was fair enough :pac: I just got sick of the same old same old on a night out. Never enjoyed the places we went to, queues for the jacks etc. I tried to just leave early but then you'd get 'ah stay for another'.

kylith

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

The same guy rarely socialises, he lives in the suburbs with a child and wife, and by his own admission does very little on the weekends apart from playing tennis.

So he was probably really looking forward to getting out of the house and meeting an old friend? What an arsehole for being disappointed, eh?

davo10

I suppose the older you get, the more family commitments you have and the more difficult it is to make time to meet friends you have lost daily/weekly/monthly contact with.

I left Uni 20 years ago and with teenagers it takes a lot of advance planning to travel to meet former close friends. I have to make sure it's a weekend that I don't have to do anything and my wife doesn't have to either so she can do all the driving for the kids. If a friend cancelled twice in a month I'd just think he/she doesn't appreciate the effort required by me and isn't as interested in meeting up as I am. I wouldn't bother making the effort anymore.

By the way op, when you have kids of your own, you'll appreciate the change which occurs in your social life, the "drop-of-a-hat" piss ups are a thing of the past.

Turtyturd

I love threads where the OP gets pissy when people point out they're the dick.