Horrible! The Plans You Made Last Week Are Today and Now You Have To Follow Through With Them

We’ve all been there. You’re soooo busy with school right now but that person you met at a pregame seemed chill, and they asked you to make plans. You tell yourself “fuck it, let’s do something next week,” little do you know it’s already too late. A week goes by in an instant, probably due to some sort of addiction that you’ll deal with after college, and you get the confirmation text. It says something like “Still on for going to Suwannee for dinner?” Is that even a thing anymore? Did you agree on that in the first place? It doesn’t matter. Believe it or not this tragedy occurs far too often. You work too hard and you’re way too important to make plans and actually do the thing that you planned on.

There are many ways to deal with a situation like this. You might be tempted to ghost them, which would work in all honesty, but then you’re gonna feel way too guilty the next time you run into them, and trust me this place feel smalls, fast. Group Chats are a breeding ground for watching firsthand flaking. An anonymous member of a chat named “Weapons of Mass Beerstruction” gave us his side of the story. “We talked about how we were gonna go drink beers and sit on the couch for 5 hours last week and everyone agreed to it. I was so sad when no one showed up the day of, I had to drink even more to make me happy again.” Needless to say, it’s a slippery slope everywhere you go. If it can happen in your 15-person group chat, it can happen to you just walking on campus.

As you find yourself living this real-life horror movie remember to never say no under any circumstances. I reached out to Steve, the most recent victim of my personal flaking, to comment on how he felt after he kept asking me to hang out. “I saw them on campus and suggested we get food at the campus Chick-fil-A, it was weird though because when I said that they started to walk away.” Steve was unaware of my phobia of campus food options. “He told me he’d buy me a y-bomb next time we go out, though.” What a sucker. Remember that if you say no you’re probably gonna get asked to do something again, and god forbid it’s to go out. You might go from the original grabbing Guthries to going to “White Trash Wednesday”. If god is real he’s not at the strip and there’s no reason you should be there either.

One thing I’ve learned about Tallahassee is that this city is full of plans waiting to be planned and subsequently flaked on. If you want my personal advice, which of course you crave my validation, I’d say there’s no shame in letting your crippling guilt get the best of you. It happened to me and it will happen to you. It’s probably happening to you right now. Look behind you. Just kidding. Proceed with caution because you might be drinking Kava in some dude’s basement by the end of it, but hey you did the right thing. Honestly, now that I think about it - fuck it! Just ghost them and rot in your room eating that pint of Ben and Jerry’s like you wanted to.