Why bother?
I keep planning things for our group to do and everyone keeps dropping out at the last minute. Everyone dropped out of RenFest the morning of the trip, almost literally, a couple did it earlier, but most dropped out after midnight.
Now there's the annual haunted house trip on Friday. I told everyone about this a month ago and sent them a list of venues to choose from. I never got any feedback on what everyone wanted to do, so it came down to me making the final choice alone--again--and I'm really tired of doing that. A couple weeks ago I made sure people would be coming to the haunted house and everyone said they were looking forward to it. Now people are starting to drop out. Tom has a date, I understand there, but he's been skipping out on us because of this girl a lot lately--that's why he didn't go to RenFest. I told him she could come too, but he indicated that he wasn't even going to mention it to her. I would feel a lot better about him dropping out if the niceties were observed there--just tell her about this event we do every year and that she can come too, when she says she'd rather do the thing they'd planed that's the end of that; all it changes is the way the person who organized the event feels. Adam also has a date; he was away at Stanford for most of the time we've been doing this and didn't know how much I was hoping he'd join us now that he's home so that's ok. Now Joe, even though I told him that we'd still be going to a haunted house this week, has decided that I didn't say that and asked if he should go to Columbus for a Furry social/Karaoke party instead. Seeing the beginnings of our main ride dropping out of the event I carefully plan every year, I suggested that we should go to the haunted house in Columbus that was on the list so we could do both. Then Matt said that he wasn't going to "get stuck in Columbus" watching Joe chase literal tail.
This is what happens when I try to plan things. I ask you, why do I bother trying to plan things?
Now there's the annual haunted house trip on Friday. I told everyone about this a month ago and sent them a list of venues to choose from. I never got any feedback on what everyone wanted to do, so it came down to me making the final choice alone--again--and I'm really tired of doing that. A couple weeks ago I made sure people would be coming to the haunted house and everyone said they were looking forward to it. Now people are starting to drop out. Tom has a date, I understand there, but he's been skipping out on us because of this girl a lot lately--that's why he didn't go to RenFest. I told him she could come too, but he indicated that he wasn't even going to mention it to her. I would feel a lot better about him dropping out if the niceties were observed there--just tell her about this event we do every year and that she can come too, when she says she'd rather do the thing they'd planed that's the end of that; all it changes is the way the person who organized the event feels. Adam also has a date; he was away at Stanford for most of the time we've been doing this and didn't know how much I was hoping he'd join us now that he's home so that's ok. Now Joe, even though I told him that we'd still be going to a haunted house this week, has decided that I didn't say that and asked if he should go to Columbus for a Furry social/Karaoke party instead. Seeing the beginnings of our main ride dropping out of the event I carefully plan every year, I suggested that we should go to the haunted house in Columbus that was on the list so we could do both. Then Matt said that he wasn't going to "get stuck in Columbus" watching Joe chase literal tail.
This is what happens when I try to plan things. I ask you, why do I bother trying to plan things?