In this very stressful end-of-the-school year rush, where business, parental, and PTA responsibilities collide, where you’re are trying to do everything at once and make everyone happy, I have one big pet peeve:  People who don’t get back to you.  You e-mail, you call…no response.  None.  Nada.  Not a “Sorry, a little busy now, but I will get back to you” or “Sorry, I can’t babysit this weekend because my parents are going out of town”, just…nothing.  Radio silence.

If and when these people do get back to you, weeks later, they will inevitably say something like “Apparently i was supposed to get back to you.”  Apparently?  What was the first clue?  The polite e-mail?  The polite phone call?  The e-mail to your co-worker or boss asking if you were out of town and didn’t leave a forwarding mesage?  Or better yet “I’ve been busy?”  Oh really?  I wonder what that must be like, being busy, trying to juggle a hundred things at once and still get everthing done.  That must  be exhausting for you!  What a stressful life you must lead!

How hard can it be to write a quick note?  Make a quick call?  Do you think we have nothing better to do than spend our valuable time trying to get in touch with you, that your opinion or participation is so tremendously valuable that we cannot take one more breath without your precious contribution?   Look–we just need to get the list together.  We just need to get a sitter.  It won’t hurt us if you say No, or beg off.  We just want this incident closed so we can move onto to the next hundred million pointless things that make up a life.  Help us attain closure!  Is it really that tough?

All together: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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