Excuses. I've run out...

[sc0tt]

I'm a serial canceller. My Missus agrees to crap I don't want to spend my afternoon doing seeing people I really don't want to see.

Today I ran out of excuses ...

Hi mate, can't make saturday.

I felt free but wrong because I didn't finish with a because.

If someone cancels do you want a reason? Personally I'd stop inviting me but these people never learn. So what have you got.

Sorry i can't finish this post because

[Rawwr]

I'm quite the same. I think I'm just full of cant-be-arsed and have a lot of it to give.

[rohrl]

Try "I'm sorry, but that sounds st and anyway I'm recording the Formula One qualifying on Saturday so I'd better stay in the house in case there's a power cut and the Sky box goes down".

[grumbledoak]

Just say "I'm sorry but I don't want to."

[iva cosworth]

"I'm in A n E after some loony through a can of red bull at me"

[King Herald]

grumbledoak said:

Just say "I'm sorry but I don't want to."

But say it to the wife, let her sort it out.

[sc0tt]

Rawwr said:

I'm quite the same. I think I'm just full of cant-be-arsed and have a lot of it to give.

A man after my own heart. Maybe we should go for a pint, or not.

[CraigyMc]

sc0tt said:

Rawwr said:

I'm quite the same. I think I'm just full of cant-be-arsed and have a lot of it to give.

A man after my own heart. Maybe we should go for a pint, or not.

I lost committment to this thread halfway through typ

[Terminator X]

In a similar vein when people ask me how I am I don't tell them and then ask how they are, I simply stop after "I'm great thanks". It's amazing how many people go on to tell me how they are even though I've not asked!

TX.

[mybrainhurts]

iva cosworth said:

"I'm in A n E after some loony through a can of red bull at me"

Good grief...call the spelling police

[Studio117]

Why waste your or others time by agreeing to things you have no intention of doing?

Seems counter productive and you look like a knob if you do it all the time.

[sc0tt]

Studio117 said:

Why waste your or others time by agreeing to things you have no intention of doing?

Seems counter productive and you look like a knob if you do it all the time.

Problem is I don't mind looking like a knob because i don't want to see these people. Its the missus who has no willpower.

[Bullett]

Umm, don't agree to things in the first place if you have no intention of going. If it goes in the diary, that's a commitment unless you have a really good reason.

[LordGrover]

Time for new missus?

[GG89]

Let her go alone.

[iva cosworth]

mybrainhurts said:

iva cosworth said:

"I'm in A n E after some loony through a can of red bull at me"

Good grief...call the spelling police

Oops,what was i thunking ?

THREW

[Disco You]

Terminator X said:

In a similar vein when people ask me how I am I don't tell them and then ask how they are, I simply stop after "I'm great thanks". It's amazing how many people go on to tell me how they are even though I've not asked!

TX.

Not returning the question is rude IMHO.

[andy-xr]

I always go, was told a long time ago to never decline an invitation (within reason!) and I've had better experiences living by it. I do have to kick myself in the arse at a few of them though

[Captain Muppet]

Disco You said:

Terminator X said:

In a similar vein when people ask me how I am I don't tell them and then ask how they are, I simply stop after "I'm great thanks". It's amazing how many people go on to tell me how they are even though I've not asked!

TX.

Not returning the question is rude IMHO.

Any opinion published for global consumption and specifically targeted to change someone else's behaviour isn't humble IMO.

[King Herald]

sc0tt said:

Studio117 said:

Why waste your or others time by agreeing to things you have no intention of doing?

Seems counter productive and you look like a knob if you do it all the time.

Problem is I don't mind looking like a knob because i don't want to see these people. Its the missus who has no willpower.

As I mentioned earlier, and you seemed to neatly sidestep, why don't you tell the wife to get her act together, instead of you acting like this is all your problem??

Or maybe if you simply told her to keep her pie hole shut she'd get the message?