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The World is Not working Right
Nov. 4th, 2011 08:35 amAs all of you married or in committed relationships will know - it is your partner who is supposed to ignore you, right? Well, perhaps surprisingly, for the most part Pete didn't ignore what I said, he actually listened and remembered. Now he's gone everyone else is not listening, or are ignoring me, instead.
We have an AGM coming up and which I am trying to organise. Pete, as he always attended the clubroom, was my go-between in sorting it out.
The clubroom is held at a social club and there is also another cycling club there that we know well. We both have our AGM at pretty much the same time, originally we had a private room that we met in where we held our AGM, and they booked a room at the back of the hall, but "our" room has been made open plan, so both cycling clubs now need to book the hall and therefore have it different weeks. The memorable year was when they made the change to the rooms and we suddenly found that we needed to use the hall they had booked - for a half-hour later start than our AGM - and we dived into their room and got through the AGM in less than 30 mins and then got out their way...
As expected the other club picked December 1st for their AGM and I was going to go for our "usual" date of December 8th. Then our potential-new-club-president asked could I not make it that week because he wants to take his wife away on a long weekend to celebrate her birthday...
OK, so I'll make it the 15th. Then my ex-work colleagues said I am invited to their works Xmas dinner which will be that week, and might be the Thursday or the Friday, it's not defined yet.
Now one decision that I have been able to make at the moment is that I would rather not spend the evening holding the AGM when I could be at the works Xmas dinner with the guys.
So I make some phone calls and send some emails, saying that the 8th/15th are no good and that we either need to make it a different day of the week or push it out into January.
I had an email from one of the committee last night, saying he'd booked the room for the 15th December... (see what I mean).
So they can have the bloody AGM on the 15th December and if it clashes with the works do, someone else can take the minutes.
I have had it up to here with my friends.
I told them that things were going to be different without Pete as my go between, but, no, they didn't listen. Or, probably more to the point, they think everything is going to be the same for all of them, it's just me who's going to have a different life.
And the 5th of November is officially cancelled this year. I'm going straight to the 6th and hopefully a middle-of-the-night viewing of Certain Prey - but that probably won't work out either.
We have an AGM coming up and which I am trying to organise. Pete, as he always attended the clubroom, was my go-between in sorting it out.
The clubroom is held at a social club and there is also another cycling club there that we know well. We both have our AGM at pretty much the same time, originally we had a private room that we met in where we held our AGM, and they booked a room at the back of the hall, but "our" room has been made open plan, so both cycling clubs now need to book the hall and therefore have it different weeks. The memorable year was when they made the change to the rooms and we suddenly found that we needed to use the hall they had booked - for a half-hour later start than our AGM - and we dived into their room and got through the AGM in less than 30 mins and then got out their way...
As expected the other club picked December 1st for their AGM and I was going to go for our "usual" date of December 8th. Then our potential-new-club-president asked could I not make it that week because he wants to take his wife away on a long weekend to celebrate her birthday...
OK, so I'll make it the 15th. Then my ex-work colleagues said I am invited to their works Xmas dinner which will be that week, and might be the Thursday or the Friday, it's not defined yet.
Now one decision that I have been able to make at the moment is that I would rather not spend the evening holding the AGM when I could be at the works Xmas dinner with the guys.
So I make some phone calls and send some emails, saying that the 8th/15th are no good and that we either need to make it a different day of the week or push it out into January.
I had an email from one of the committee last night, saying he'd booked the room for the 15th December... (see what I mean).
So they can have the bloody AGM on the 15th December and if it clashes with the works do, someone else can take the minutes.
I have had it up to here with my friends.
I told them that things were going to be different without Pete as my go between, but, no, they didn't listen. Or, probably more to the point, they think everything is going to be the same for all of them, it's just me who's going to have a different life.
And the 5th of November is officially cancelled this year. I'm going straight to the 6th and hopefully a middle-of-the-night viewing of Certain Prey - but that probably won't work out either.
