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Miscommunication time again
Nov. 9th, 2002 04:06 pmAs I mentioned numerous months ago, Erin and Meredith (my brother Hugh's wife) are not on speaking terms (for reasons I really can't be arsed to go into). Numerous of my friends, in fact, don't talk to other ones.
Due to various problems, at the time of my house warming, Scott wasn't comfortable being at my flat if Joe was going to be there, so I told him that I'd invite him round when I got back (along with Rob - his flatmate, and Neil, a good friend of theirs and mine).
Neil's currently doing a PhD in London, but when I was down there I chatted to him and he told me he'd be up this weekend, so that'd be a good time for him to come over and see the new flat. I confimed this with Scott about a week and a half ago. Erin was happy because she enjoyed staying with Neil in London.
Then, earlier this week, Rob sent emails to all the ex-players of the Deadlands game that Hugh ran (including Meredith, Hugh, Me and Neil) saying that as the other player (George) was about to leave the country for 9 months of travelling, we should get together on Thursday. After much going back and forth this was agreed, especially as Meredith would enjoy the company as Hugh was off running a LARP somewhere down south.
Wednesday night I called Rob and said "Are we meeting tomorrow?" and he said "naah, George can't make it" and I thought no more about it. I chatted to Scott yesterday over MSN and confirmed I'd be seeing the trio today around 6-ish.
So I then got a call today at 3:00 from Hugh asking why I was dragging the group away from Meredith when they'd come through to hang out all together.
Apparently he'd thought that we'd just postponed the thursday meeting to today, and Meredith was feeling that I was taking the meeting (or hijacking it, or something, it was a bad mobile line) over to my place. She seems to think that I'm in danger of being turned against her by Erin. As it happens, it's pretty much impossible to turn me against anyone, and irrelevant of my feelings on the Erin/Meredith problem I'm not going to stop talking to either of them.
So I chatted to Hugh, agreed that I'd go hang with the guys and Meredith over at her/Hugh's flat until 6-ish (maybe a bit later) and then drag them over here so that they could see the place and Erin could hang out with them. I then called Meredith to talk it over with her, got a very flat response when I said "Hello" and decided to just tell her I'd be over around 4-ish to say "hi" and explain what the mixup was. I then raced around getting the hoovering done so that the place is vaguely presentable for people turning up. And now I'm going to go over and hang out and hopefully get things sorted.
In the words of the great Archibald Tuttle - why can't we all just get along?
Oh, I'm also in the process of buying a flat, but that can wait until after soothing social ruffles.
Due to various problems, at the time of my house warming, Scott wasn't comfortable being at my flat if Joe was going to be there, so I told him that I'd invite him round when I got back (along with Rob - his flatmate, and Neil, a good friend of theirs and mine).
Neil's currently doing a PhD in London, but when I was down there I chatted to him and he told me he'd be up this weekend, so that'd be a good time for him to come over and see the new flat. I confimed this with Scott about a week and a half ago. Erin was happy because she enjoyed staying with Neil in London.
Then, earlier this week, Rob sent emails to all the ex-players of the Deadlands game that Hugh ran (including Meredith, Hugh, Me and Neil) saying that as the other player (George) was about to leave the country for 9 months of travelling, we should get together on Thursday. After much going back and forth this was agreed, especially as Meredith would enjoy the company as Hugh was off running a LARP somewhere down south.
Wednesday night I called Rob and said "Are we meeting tomorrow?" and he said "naah, George can't make it" and I thought no more about it. I chatted to Scott yesterday over MSN and confirmed I'd be seeing the trio today around 6-ish.
So I then got a call today at 3:00 from Hugh asking why I was dragging the group away from Meredith when they'd come through to hang out all together.
Apparently he'd thought that we'd just postponed the thursday meeting to today, and Meredith was feeling that I was taking the meeting (or hijacking it, or something, it was a bad mobile line) over to my place. She seems to think that I'm in danger of being turned against her by Erin. As it happens, it's pretty much impossible to turn me against anyone, and irrelevant of my feelings on the Erin/Meredith problem I'm not going to stop talking to either of them.
So I chatted to Hugh, agreed that I'd go hang with the guys and Meredith over at her/Hugh's flat until 6-ish (maybe a bit later) and then drag them over here so that they could see the place and Erin could hang out with them. I then called Meredith to talk it over with her, got a very flat response when I said "Hello" and decided to just tell her I'd be over around 4-ish to say "hi" and explain what the mixup was. I then raced around getting the hoovering done so that the place is vaguely presentable for people turning up. And now I'm going to go over and hang out and hopefully get things sorted.
In the words of the great Archibald Tuttle - why can't we all just get along?
Oh, I'm also in the process of buying a flat, but that can wait until after soothing social ruffles.
