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My partner is a daft bugger!

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Upfartooearly · 27/11/2022 07:03

DP is in a senior leadership position with a physics and maths background. He’s going to an event today that’s 2 hours away with some of his friend. He was making all the arrangements, bought the tickets etc, and he told them to arrive at our house at 7am. As he was grumbling to himself about why he had set such an early group start on a Sunday morning he said “I should have said we should leave at 8 but then we wouldn’t arrive till 11am”.

I am not my most alert in the mornings, and neither am I very good at maths, but even I could work out that his timing was out and an 8am start would have them there by 10am. So now they are going to arrive an hour before the place opens.

I can’t quite gauge the mood of his friends since I’ve stayed snuggled in bed, but he told me breakfast is on him (if they can find anywhere open at this time).

I’m not sure if he will live this down.

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NuNameNuMe · 27/11/2022 07:13

Arriving early is never wrong though. The man is well organised!!

PuttingDownRoots · 27/11/2022 07:20

Honestly if I was trying to organise a trip to a place 2hrs away I'd arrange to meet 3hrs before to allow wiggle room... toilet stop, traffic, breakfast, someone running 10 mins late...

BamBamBilla · 27/11/2022 07:24

His friend hasn't realised either?

EternalStench · 27/11/2022 07:28

If it's a timed event then it makes sense to arrive early. There could be delays on the way, they may need food, drink and toilets before they start. I don't think it's daft.

ApolloandDaphne · 27/11/2022 08:29

Allowing three hours makes sense to me. You never know what the traffic might be like and arriving early is better than being late.

Upfartooearly · 27/11/2022 10:31

Well, I’ve just had a lovely long lie in now and they have arrived - delayed only by service for breakfast.

It’s not a timed event, it’s mostly a shopping trip to a venue you have to pay to get into that they have done many times before, so whilst traffic could be bad, it wouldn’t be the end of the world to arrive even an hour or two later than the event opens.

@BamBamBilla, why did nobody else question it? It is their annual pilgrimage so you would think they would have a better idea. But DP is the de facto leader and organiser so the others are happy to offload all thought processes. I’m sure it won’t stop him being ribbed about it 😊

And next early morning wake up he has planned, we’ll be having a run through of timings in advance, I think.

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