A good friend of mine has a friend who’s an actress. Said friend has tickets to a play said actress is appearing in tonight. The friend has tickets and was supposed to take a date, who’s now sick, so he offered the other ticket to me. When he had mentioned this play the other day I muttered vague mutterings about possibly seeing a movie with another friend, which wasn’t exactly true but wasn’t exactly a lie. Movie plans have not developed.
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Frankly, I want to keep it that way – this sounds like pretentious claptrap by amateur actors to me, and I’m not generally a fan of the theater anyway. So if I went I’d be fidgeting for 75 minutes and then have to be tactful to both my friend and the actress afterward.
I can’t really use my preferred “sorry, made other plans” excuse, which works best when you don’t need to specify what the plans are, but the next time I’d see this friend he’d ask what movie I saw and what I thought. My plans actually consist of staying home with my knitting and a Netflix DVD I’ve had for almost a month.
Ugh. I don’t want to insult both him and his friend by saying “It sounds utterly hellish,” but other than the truth I don’t know what to say.
Maybe just “Lot going on mentally with this new job, I’d rather stay home and veg.”
That works.
Thanks for your help – (yeah, like I’m not going to post this after spending 10 minutes writing it … )
Yes, it would literally kill her. Otherwise of course she would go, because the only reason to not go to every single thing that a friend or a friend-of-a-friend invites you to is if going would actually cause your death.
“Sorry, I’m having a dialog with my vagina tonight.”
(I went to see the Vagina Monologues in Dublin. It was one of the most cringeworthy things I’ve ever experienced. The audience was so embarrassingly PC and right-on that one woman got a spontaneous round of applause as she walked on stage - just for being black.)
Do you think you’ll get less out of it than he will? I feel sorry for the poor guy. Can’t you two just both get a good laugh out of it? Or both skip it and see a movie together?