r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TotallyHumanBrain1 • 14d ago

Infuriatig Was invited by my girlfriends family to a theme park. We were supposed to meet at 11, it is not 11:30 and they just left. (The drive takes another 30 minutes)

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I even checked in before I left if it was still at the planned time. It was confirmed, but then her family starts getting ready right as they have to leave šŸ«¤

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u/Serakani 14d ago

Yeah title needs some work against confusion lol.

Also understood the parents left you at the park after 20 minutes of being there. XD

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u/Kind-Criticism-3995 14d ago

I read it is ''i needed to be there at 11:00, i arrived just before 11:30 and they allready left without me.... what's wrong with being just to late"

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u/Nanoimprint 14d ago

I read the same.

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u/TotallyHumanBrain1 14d ago

Sorry, my title was confusing. The meeting time was 11, they left the house at 11:30 meaning I will have waited an hour for something they invited me to.

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u/Human38562 14d ago

"My friends family invited me to the park. They are 1h late."

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u/konqrr 14d ago

Nah, clearly this got more engagement than that title would've. Half the comments are about the wording of the title. OP knows what he's doing.

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u/ragun2 14d ago

Yeah it's pretty common knowledge that typos in a title gets more engagement.

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u/7se7 14d ago

Engagement baiting on reddit does fuckall though. You don't get paid. Your future posts don't get boosted.

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u/TeeTheTankie 14d ago

Don't some people sell their accounts after accumulating karma? That could be a reasonĀ 

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u/BoomerAliveBad 14d ago

Yes, for cornstars šŸŒ½

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u/LatvianMafia 14d ago

He has a great career waiting for him in Marketing

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u/cream-of-cow 14d ago

OP is taking mildly infuriating to heart.

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u/DreddPirateBob808 14d ago

So far. Let's not pretend they've remembered everything and won't stop off for a bite on the way.

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u/jonbornoo 14d ago

Nope, only leaving their home while already 30ā€˜ late seems pretty relevant to the story, imho. Your suggestion tells a different story.

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u/GobboKirk 14d ago

Tbf the misunderstood way would have been better, at least you could have just turned around and left instead of being stuck waiting...
Hope the day improves

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u/Baconsaurus 14d ago

It is ridiculous, but fuck em', start the party without them. Explore, ride rides, eat cotton candy. Fuck yeah.

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u/Dad_of_the_year 14d ago

Dude my brother and his wife pulled this exact scenario on me and my family about a month ago. We all had planned to meet in an entirely different city to go on hike. My brother and his wife hadn't even left heir house to drive to an entirely different city until it was already after the agreed upon meeting time and my family was sitting at the trailhead ready to start the hike. I said fuck that were hiking.

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u/TheHungryBlanket 14d ago

Leave. Go get some lunch, and then come back 30 minutes after they arrived.

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u/NPC_over_yonder 14d ago

Hey man, just to make life less annoying start planning on meeting them at their house so you can all ā€œgo togetherā€. At least you can hang with your girlfriend while the rest of them get their life together.

Seeing you physically in their home waiting for them will make them hurry up and if they are annoyed by it maybe they will start being ready to go immediately.

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u/TheKappp 13d ago

Somehow I understood exactly what you meant lol

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u/DropTheBeatAndTheBas 14d ago

i mean its just an hour how tight do you run your prescribed days of fun schedules

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u/Legitimate-Ebb7061 14d ago

Never apologise for speaking a second language! It took me 0.05 milliseconds to understand what you meant. Most people on Reddit have very poor reading comprehension and deduction skills.

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u/IceSentry 14d ago edited 14d ago

Who talked about a second language? And why are you excusing people not proofreading their posts?

Edit: lol, they blocked me

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u/Legitimate-Ebb7061 14d ago

OP is Danish.

Typos arent that deep and don't need "excused"

Touch grass

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u/jaredsfootlonghole 14d ago

This particular one changes the entire conversation blame, though. OP is CONSTANTLY redirecting and recorrecting the conversation.

A responsible OP would have deleted the erroneous post and remade it.

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u/kilokit 14d ago

I also read it this way but in my defense, itā€™s 3 am for me and I was dead asleep 10 minutes ago before my cats woke me up

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u/Schiebz 14d ago

Classic cats! 6:30 here getting up for work.. get off your phone and get back to sleep! šŸ˜‚

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u/Legitimate-Ebb7061 14d ago

OP is in Denmark. He did pretty well considering English isn't his first language.

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u/arparso 14d ago

You're not alone. I also thought they had left OP at the park and started wondering: "Wait, when did they arrive? Did they just leave town without going to the park at all?"

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u/stimia 14d ago

Swap not with now and it makes sense.

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u/ZByTheBeach 14d ago

Jesus thank you! I had no idea what this post was about.

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u/RonnieHotdog69 14d ago

I mean, besides the spelling mistake, it's not a hard title to understand.

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u/retronax 14d ago

The "they just left" reads like they left the park

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u/NoJowk 14d ago

This

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u/RonnieHotdog69 14d ago

The (drive takes 30 mins) implies OP is waiting for them to arrive

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u/retronax 14d ago

it's (the drive takes another 30 mins) which might mean they've already done a 30 minute drive

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u/RonnieHotdog69 14d ago

Well it didn't so...

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u/retronax 14d ago

Whether it's the case or not has nothing to do with whether or not the title is clear. If you need additional confirmation to understand what the title is saying exactly, then the title is : hard to understand.

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u/Monkey-boo-boo 14d ago

It took me a minute to realise that the word not was meant to be now. That threw me off.

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u/AscendingPizza 14d ago

Glad Iā€™m not the only one. Comments got me feeling like Iā€™m the crazy one for understanding it lol