Over at the defunct ChicagoNow, I did a post about Life Lessons. It was a gallery so when I exported that blog to my personal (unused) WordPress site, they didn't come over. I had to use Wayback Machine to get them. I figured putting the more pertinent ones here might be beneficial.
Practical Life Lesson: 11th Hour Cancellations
When someone cancels plans with you at the last minute, the reason falls into one of two buckets.
Bucket#1: something came up last minute that prevented the person from participating. The boss implemented an arbitrary but firm deadline. A child got sick.
Bucket #2: the person never wanted to do it in the first place and the pressure finally was too much that they hit the panic button and canceled, often through some backdoor method like a text or voice mail.
The way you know which bucket it was is whether or not they follow up to reschedule if/when things calm down. If they reach out and say something along the lines of hey things were crazy last week but everything seems back to normal, how about we try again?
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