I have specialist riding lessons (think jousting, vaulting, sidesaddle etc - not regular riding). I was supposed to have a lesson this afternoon. The instructor lets me into the yard at one of the 12 (!) gates. For long and boring reasons we didn’t know which gate would be in use, so she told me she’d let me know which gate to meet at before the lesson.
She didn’t message me telling me which gate so I messaged her and got no reply. I called her and her phone rang with no answer. I drove around all of the gates which took about 40 minutes and wrote her a couple of WhatsApp messages and tried to call her as I went.
I then bumped into her partner who told me that there had been a power cut at the yard and that my instructor had driven to a restaurant nearby to charge her phone there because it has run out of power. Her partner also said that there was an issue with the horse and it probably wouldn’t be a good day for a riding lesson after all. I sent a WhatsApp message to my instructor saying I’d bumped into her partner who had updated me. I took my dog for a walk in the woods nearby, expecting that I’d get a call from the instructor while I was walking, but nothing. I actually saw that she went onto WhatsApp but she still didn’t contact me.
Obviously it’s the middle of the night, so I’m not expecting contact now, but AIBU to have expected a call with an apology this evening? I am tempted to cancel all future lessons but it’s a very specialist niche and it would be difficult to find another instructor. We have also become friends since I started lessons in March which also muddies the water a little, but I still think she should have contacted me and apologised. AIBU? Was her partner’s update “enough” that I knew my lesson was cancelled?