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Top 10 excuses for not coming to your party

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#1 ·
Help me out with the list

-Couldn't find a babysitter (with a year, month, week notice)
-Couldn't find a dogsitter. (who needs a dog sitter for one evening?)
-Too far to drive home (then don't, spend the night)
-I don't like costumes (but you will paint your face and wear a team jersey?)
-I couldn't come up with a costume. (yeah, it's hard to paint whiskers on your face and call yourself a cat)
-I couldn't find a date. (Who said you needed a date, this isn't a teenage makeout party)
-(enter relative of choice) is playing in a football game that night. (football games are over by 10 or 11, our party goes till 3)
-(enter relative of choice) is in town. (and you can't bring them...because?)
-It's too far to drive. (it didn't seem that far when we came to your kid's birthday party)
-I have to work until 6pm. (so do 99% of the other guests)
-I have the kids this weekend. (so, you didn't realize you had them a month ago?)
-I planned a trip for that weekend. (Sorry a year's notice wasn't enough)

;-)
 
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#4 ·
We had one who cancelled. But he called early in the week and said he had the flu and wouldn't be able to attend. His wife came without him lol At least she didn't use the excuse that her husband was sick and she couldn't come. We also had one that had concert tickets bought MONTHS ago for a very in demand concert (can't remember who it was lol) but she did ask if she could come after the concert which she did. She arrived around 10ish and was one of the last to leave....around 3 or 4 ish. We also had another regular that came late cause he had to go to a bday party first.
We had one guy who would have been better off not coming lol He is normally loads of fun but this year was a real stick in the mud. No creativity with his costume, didn't dance, didn't goof off, and chatted about taxes the whole evening.

MsM
 
#6 ·
Too funny. I think I got the best one....

"I had acupuncture done on my back and I can't get out of bed."

Oh and my best friend couldn't come because her kids were sick (which I know was true). But that being said, her husband still wanted to come to the party without her. What a jerk.
 
#7 ·
I got the ever popular "too far to drive" excuse from one of the guests... BUT he lives about 20 minuntes away. I had 8 guests drive from about 90 minutes away with no complaints.
I also got the famed "I have the kids this weekend... " oh, ok, so with the month notice you received you could... 1. switch the weekend, or 2. get a babysitter.
 
#8 ·
How about....
"I forgot!"
"Was at another party!"
"It is just not my thing!"
"I do not believe in Halloween!"
"I did not feel like going out!"
"I had nothing to wear!" (Then come naked...perfectly acceptable!)
or the ever famous...
"I was getting ready to come over, but while I was doing my make up, I dropped a brush and when I bent over to pick it up, I hit my head on the edge of the sink and knocked myself out...so when I came to, I noticed I was dressed like Dorothy and I figured that maybe I was Dorothy, and I could have sworn that my cat was a munchkin who kept telling me to 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road' so I did, but it only lead to my closet, so I busted a whole through the back wall, thinking this could only be the way to the Emerald City...but then reality hit and I saw that I had busted the drywall in the back of my closet and so I went downstairs to get some plaster and a Trough to fix the whole when the door shut and locked me into the basement with nothing but leeky pipes and spiders to survive on until the wife came home and she......"
 
#9 ·
excuses, excuses

we received a bunch of the previously named excuses but my fav of the night was that they were dressed and ready to walk out the door (full makeup on according to them) and out of town guests showed up at their door. whatever! I guess that atleast a creative excuse is slighly better than the bunch of folks who just didn't show up at all.
 
#14 ·
My favorite one from this year is from a friend that has been telling us for two months how excited he was about coming....seriously, two months! Every day he talked about how cool it was going to be. Then..


"So what happened to you last night? You didn't call to say something came up or anything"

"Uhhh..I know...You were suppose to go shopping with me to find a costume but you never called to go and I didn't know anyone that would be there at the party except for you guys"

rofl
 
#17 ·
We've gotten most of those plus
"We can't come if we can't bring the kids"

Next year I'm having a Vampire themed party and I'm going to make it costumes MANDATORY!
So for those who use that excuse or one of the costume ones they are gonna miss out.
And if somebody can't afford a pair of 2 dollar plastic fangs and tie a garbage bag cape around their neck then they are bigger losers than I thought and won't get another invite.

I'm sick of the no rsvp-ing and the lame excuses before and after the party!
 
#18 ·
It blows my mind that some people that we consider friends are reliably unreliable.

They used to do things all the time - chili cook off, camping, boat trips, etc... but now? They say they are IN and at the last minute, bail. No big deal for a party, but for a boat trip that requires planning and reservations... it is rude. I recommend not asking, but they usually get an invite anyway.

The common denominator in most of our friends lives that don't show up is a wife from another social circle. They'd rather sit at home than be around people they don't know. So, they do.
 
#19 ·
I quite honestly don't care about excuses. If people want to come to my party they will find a way. I know of 1-2 who had legitimate excuses, and i KNEW they really wanted to come, but as for others, so what. I had 40+ fun people, I don't really care about what the other 80 we invited had to do.

What I like are the ones that when I ask in the summer say "you kidding? I wouldn't miss it for the world!!!'
 
#20 ·
We got two excuses this year.

One was "we are sick and have been all week." Fine with me, I don't want to catch it. Thanks for being responsible.

The other was, "The kids are being impossible, and I just yanked going to the party as a consequence." Gotta agree with that one too. Sometimes it is necessary to do something drastic to remind the kids that you mean business.

On the other hand, one person came to the party after having driven clear across the state. Now that's my kind of party guest!
 
#21 ·
Glad everyone else had these problems besides me! (not really)

This was my wife and my first party in a while. I spent way too much time and money putting it together only to have a few confirmations cancel.

There's always a person with an excuse you can't argue with (friend text me right before - her son got a concussion playing football that night), but I had another co-worker who was all excited about it only to not show up, call, anything. Got to work the next day and she didn't say anything. Like it never happened. No excuse, apology, not even asked how it went.

Very disheartening.
 
#23 ·
My brother always uses the same excuses:

"I've got too much to do at work and at home since we are selling the house."

This year he told me this after he commented about the football game he was watching. His house has been "for sale" for about 3 years now and he is still getting it ready. My parties are always the Saturday before Halloween so it's not like he can't plan for it. I invite him every year but he has yet to come. It's almost become a joke between us. Next year when I invite him I'll go ahead and write his excuses on his invitation.

I also get the "Halloween is just not my thing" crap. I mean I'm not worshiping evil here we're just dressing in costumes and acting like adult idiots.
 
#24 ·
We had a few "too tired" and "had to go to another work party instead" excuses.

One friend who just had her appendix removed earlier in the week still made it to the party for a little while. She said she wouldn't have missed it plus, she couldn't go anywhere else in town dressed in her pajamas and bathrobe without people commenting. It did make the people who said they were too tired to come feel bad.
 
#26 ·
This was the year when so many of my regulars didn't show up. And I never received excuses, RSVPs, apologies - nothing. There are some I invite and know they won't make it, but there were a few who never miss it and still didn't show. Disapointing, but I'm glad with who did show and had a great time!
 
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