Lately I’ve noticed how often people are late or just flake out altogether. For a moment, I thought it was my fault—poor planning on my behalf, or maybe I’m just intolerable. But after waiting around for one date after the next, I realized this noncommittal disease is a widespread epidemic!
It kind of goes back to the study that shows too many choices to be debilitating. It’s the cache. We’re all so obsessed with the stupid cache, what could be, what’s potentially better which I don’t yet know.
This sentiment is so pervasive that we can’t even throw down a hard yes or no.
Here’s a tip: It’s even more polite to say no from the get go as opposed to saying yes—even tenuously—and then cancelling later (or god forbid, last minute).
And show up on time! Fancy that.
