It’s frustrating to try to make a reservation when your dinner guests don’t respond to your invitation.
My husband’s family lives in different areas of the country, and we see them a few times a year. He likes to invite them to a local restaurant at our expense.
They hedge, or they don’t respond at all. They accept but do not attend or decline but show up anyway — sometimes with guests of their own. All they have to do is decide whether they want to attend, inform the host of their decision and then do it, unless there is a death in the family. Why is that so hard?It should be noted that when the event is at a restaurant, or catered, as a wedding may be, some people make the mistake of thinking a head count is not important. Of course it is.
Please forgive this rant. You know what they should do; the problem is that they don't. And we need to get your blood pressure down.Can you stick your husband with this job? It’s his family. Or you could pick one of the relatives, possibly the most negligent one, and issue a deadline by which that person should give the restaurant a final count directly. If nobody shows up one year, it will be a lesson learned.
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