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.

Best excuse I heard, we went furniture shopping out of town.

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.

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BOO!

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.

You gotta love it when people that say they are coming...say they are coming... ask what they can bring... say they are coming.

Then they don't show.

Or call or follow up and say sorry, or anything. :-)

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!

Here are the excuses I received:

"I have school the next day" (C'mon! School on a Sunday?!)
"I had a hard week and am too exhausted"
"I don't do Halloween"
"I don't have a costume and my husband has a headache"
"We're going to a wedding"
"We're going to a baby shower in Maryland" (our party was in NJ)

I got a good one (from my own brother)....

"We accidently fell asleep".

Duh. If you lay in the bed (or on the sofa) and close your eyes, you might fall asleep!

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"There is no delight the equal of Dread." - Clive Barker

My party was the same, people said they were coming and didn't show. I put a lot of time and money in to it and it was a big let down. Blah. I'm still upset from it, but it's not a huge deal.

Don't get me wrong, we had a great time. We'd have a good time with a few people.

It just makes me laugh that if we had a cookout with oysters and beer, and pull out the Wii... we could have 100% turnout. If the same people are invited to a Christmas party, the house bursts at the seams.

Eh.