I am officially done making plans with people. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love hanging out with people, especially when it’s someone I haven’t seen in a while. But sometimes things happen that cancel plans, and while some reasons are understandable, others can be frustrating.
Need some examples? Say hypothetically, you have made plans with a person whom you NEVER see and just when you’re about to head to their place, they tell you, “I actually can’t hang out” or “I have other plans.”
I’m sorry, I would much rather have you tell me at least 30 minutes before I leave my house that you don’t want to hang out or you have other plans, etc.
Need another example? Say you have plans to go home, hypothetically of course, and your parents then say that they’re actually going somewhere else, and I never told them I was coming down. But the funny thing is that I told them a month before, at least, that I was going to come home.
Now, although these two scenarios are hypothetical, it still doesn’t defeat the fact that telling a person right when they are about to arrive at the set destination that you don’t want to hang out or see them.
If you are a person who does this, then, respectfully, do better. The reason I say that is because these people are going out of their way to see you, and yet you can’t give them the decency to tell them in advance that you don’t want to see them. It does not make sense.
So the next time you are thinking about hanging out with someone, then decide that either (A) you don’t want to hang out with them or (B) you can’t because you have other plans, tell the person in advance that you can’t make it.
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