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[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
On Monday morning, I called a friend of mine and to invite her and her SO to come over for drinks on Wednesday night (i.e. last night). They'd fed me gin martinis a few weeks ago, and I wanted to return the favor. She wasn't there, so I left a message and left my work number. I called again later that evening and left my cell number.

As of yesterday morning, I hadn't heard back from her, so I assumed that she hadn't gotten the message, which was probably for the best, since the house was not put back together yet.

Over the weekend I took on an ambitious task to repaint a room in my house, which of course turned the playfully messy house that I usually live in into a full blown disaster area. The plan was to be finished by Tuesday, but some, er, other events prevented me from giving my full concentration on the paint job on Monday and Tuesday nights, and I really wasn't able to finish everything until early, early this morning. The room does look nice, though, thanks for asking.

Anyhow, because I was painting, the telephone with the caller-ID and message light was unplugged and sitting under a tarp for the last five or so days. When I got home last night, I picked up the other phone and heard the message from my friend (sent at 5:30 the previous evening) accepting my invitation and asking for details. When I finally got the message last night, there was no way in hell I would let another human being into the disaster that was my house. Hell, even the puppy was covered in paint. I started to clean up a bit, got caught up in the cleaning frenzy (as well as the final touches of the painting), and I never did call her back.

She's a pretty easy going person, but I feel bad that I invited someone over and they accepted and I flaked. Do I just explain the unplugged phone and beg for apologies? Do I up the ante to full blown dinner?

ETA: If that's too boring, does anyone have experience negotiating with neighbors when part of their tree falls on your yard? Aside from a crape myrlte and possibly a few roses, there are suprisingly few casualties, and the fence looks ok. There is no way that I can drag that thing away though. On the bright side, I won't have as many pecans falling into my yard this fall.

Almost everything in life can be solved by food and drink. (And the few things that can't can be solved with sex).

Up the ante. It'll be fun.