# Best way to decline an invitation to a play **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-decline-an-invitation-to-a-play/553401 "2010-09-11T13:30:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-decline-an-invitation-to-a-play/553401/21 "2010-09-11T20:21:55Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > “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.) Maybe she wasn’t black? She might have just been acting. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-decline-an-invitation-to-a-play/553401/22 "2010-09-11T20:22:21Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > 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? Nah, that was the problem – knowing my friend, and knowing his friendship with this woman, etc., the one thing that I was clear about was that “god, that sounds hellish” was totally out of the question for something to say (despite my well-earned reputation for tactlessness). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-decline-an-invitation-to-a-play/553401.md?page=1)