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Originally Posted by MaryleeII
I've have the opposite happen. Several relatives, including MIL and an aunt, liked to give me a later time than the rest of the group, so I'd appear to be showing up late. so, when I caught on and arrived "early" thus on time, they changed the location. Then, it was always I got there late, anyways---oh, didn't so-and-so tell you, we decided to go to A instead of B? That's ok, we will wait for you. Then, you come running in half an hour late, and everyone glaring at you..........fortunately, these weird relatives have died, so no more Marylee being late!
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Wow, that's really mean!!
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Originally Posted by NJ Sherri
This goes both ways though, I have been invited to BBQ's and birthday parties where I have been told to come at 2:00 for example and I show up fifteen minutes late and the person is still at the store picking up stuff.
We went to a birthday party where pizza and sandwiches were being picked up. We were told to come at 1:00, we showed up like 1:15. Food wasn't there. Ok no big deal. Now its 2:00 still no food. Her husband was going to go pick up the food at 3:30, we found out. We had a concert to go to at 6:00 that evening, so we had to leave around 4:00 to get there. When we left at 4:00 food still wasn't there, her husband left to go get it though.
Why invite people at 1:00? We were there just to sit around and talk and watch the kid open up her presents.
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I'm laughing because this happened in our family too! SIL invites everyone over for a BBQ/birthday for nephew at 2pm. Great, we're all there at 2. Dinner wasn't until 6pm, and boy, we were starving!!!
I like the way OP stated her invitation... come over at X, dinner is at Y. Now we've learned our lesson and always ask, what time would you like us there, and what time is dinner being served, so we can plan our other mealtimes accordingly.