Lenona wrote:
> Pretty amusing.

People are funny.

> http://www.buffalonews.com/life/colu...icle325123.ece
>
> A proper postponement?
>
> Dear Miss Manners: A few weeks ago, my husband and I invited a couple
> who are neighbors to a small cocktail party, just the four of us. They
> were supposed to arrive at our house at 6 p.m.
>
> At 5 p.m. that same evening they called to ask us to postpone this
> party until the following night. I replied no

Excuse me, no?? What are you going to do, force them to come
over? Okay, then, you can't postpone, how does cancel fit into your
plans?

> and I mentioned that I had already prepared the food.

> The wife mentioned that the husband had an emergency and could not
> make it. I was stunned then, and I’m still stunned today. When I
> looked outside, his car was parked in his spot at 6:15 p. m.

Maybe the guy can work from home through the computer. If
something bad goes wrong at work, sometimes it must be fixed
or at least worked on right away.

> I don’t
> know how to react to this. To me, she should have maybe showed up for
> a short time to show us that this reason was legitimate and he could
> have joined us later.

I guess she wasn't all that keen to come over and entertain you
by herself. And he's probably not going to be ready for a party
any time soon or they would have said they'd be late.

> I spoke to her later and she appears like nothing happened and does
> not care that we lost hundreds of dollars worth of food and the time
> it took us to prepare the party. This has never happened to me in 50
> years. I had people cancel the day before, the morning of but never
> one hour before.

If she hadn't bothered to let you know something unavoidable had
come up, you might have an argument. They can't make it over
for cocktails, stuff happens. And when you say you lost hundreds
of dollars of food for a 4 person cocktail party, you're not believable.
Stretches credibility even if it was a dinner party.

nancy