Where is everyone.

Started by droomph May 30th, 2012 7:27 PM
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droomph

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Posted January 3rd, 2017
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11.7 Years
How often do you plan some party or organized trip, and on the day of the event...nobody shows up! How often does that happen for you? Every time? Once in the past?
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Golurks Were Meant to Fly

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Seen October 4th, 2021
Posted August 5th, 2020
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11.3 Years
This happened at a birthday party when I was young, only a couple people came. T_T People kind of told me their excuses before... but this is probably the reason I don't have birthday parties anymore...
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Hikamaru

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I don't plan events so don't expect this happening to me.
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The Fallen

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Seen November 29th, 2012
Posted June 19th, 2012
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18.4 Years
I would call that poor planning if next to nobody showed up. Most times you get RSVPs of check with you acquaintances to see if they are free, and if not you pick another date. It's all in the planning to be quite honest. Now, if you happen to plan and your "friends" say they'll be there and then no-show, you need new friends. lol

Mr Cat Dog

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Posted July 12th, 2017
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19.1 Years
I plan get-togethers with friends via text and Facebook, and I'm pretty militarily-focused on making sure that the people who say that they're going to come do make it. And on time, as well. I'm a real stickler for punctuality and secretly despise people who don't have the same respect for it as I do (so... I secretly despise nearly everyone. But don't worry, I'm working on my issues! :D) When I plan things, they succeed. End of.

Esper

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Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018
This is why I don't invite people who I know are flaky, or at least I invite them knowing ahead of time that they will get distracted, be late, and not show up until 2 hours after things kick off. Consequently, my plans never hinge on their participation.

So I can't think of a time this happened to me. Granted, I don't plan a whole lot of events so I go the extra mile when I do.

Alex

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Seen December 30th, 2022
Posted December 26th, 2022
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16.4 Years
I have found that if I organize a type of event where I invite plenty of people, I can expect roughly half of them not to show up. This is usually because my guest-list is composed of people that I don't regularly talk to and therefore these people forget/don't bother to come. I don't take offense to it because I do it to other people who invite me to events. I don't like going out that much so.

The only time I can be sure my event will go down flawlessly in terms of guests is if I invite all my closest buddies. Cause we all know each other and we all want to be around each other and we know it's gonna be a good time. So I usually just stick to doing that.

Shining Raichu

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Posted December 21st, 2017
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I'm pretty militarily-focused on making sure that the people who say that they're going to come do make it. And on time, as well. I'm a real stickler for punctuality and secretly despise people who don't have the same respect for it as I do
Jon, you sound like a barrel of fun. They should make a sitcom about you opening an event-planning company with The White Rabbit.


As for me, I don't think I've ever planned a get-together or an outing and had nobody show up. If people can't call you ahead of time and say "sorry I can't make it" in time for you to cancel or postpone the event, then you need to start shopping for a better set of friends :P
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psyanic

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Posted June 30th, 2018
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12 Years
I rarely plan get-togethers, so I don't think this has happened before. But there have been outings where I was invited, and I ended up being one of the handful of people who bothered to show up.

When I do plan actually plan something, I'm extremely paranoid and I keep a good link of communication. In other words, I text/call/whatever to the invited constantly, since I don't like it when people say they will show up, but they don't anyway. Fortunately, most of my friends are pretty reliable, so yeah, having no one show up hasn't happened. Yet.
Seen January 11th, 2013
Posted July 22nd, 2012
240 posts
11.1 Years
It's never happened to me, since I never really plan outings. And I never plan outings, since I'm one of those incredibly indecisive people who takes forever to decide whether to make the commitment to go out somewhere or not.

The one time I have planned something, I don't recall being overly paranoid about being left alone, and surely enough, everything went through smoothly. I guess it helps that the people I had invited were reliable when it came to stuff like that, haha.

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I haven't done anything like that in years, but I remember that I had a string of events that I invited people to and nobody showed up back in the day. Apparently it was because i was inviting people to come as their college Resident Assistant, and there's apparently this stigma that events that your RA invites you to are uncool, so I think that might have contributed to why people failed to show.

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I barely ever plan events, it's usually others who do. When ever I plan get-togethers with friends, they don't always go as planned. Either no-one shows up, or not a lot of people show up. Most of the time if it's just one person it ends up not happening or getting postponed.
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I doubt I've ever planned a party,or any sort of event ever really. I've been stood up a few times before by people but the only time when multiple people haven't shown up is because simethibg happened and the message never got through.