Atlanta ...Breakfast???

[iamkathi]

I'll be there, hubby is back in Seattle. He really now understands that I don't just eat at midnight. It's about the company kept.

And...after last week all be advised. We sit at midnight.

[Jace]

haha, was someone late last week?

[Peaches]

I have to wash my hair.

Actually, one of the things I've been most scared of driving back alone down basically empty streets in the middle of the night happened last week: woman in Jeep flipped on the side of 575 and wasn't found for 8 hours. She was dead and her 2 kids were in there upside down for 8 hours until another driver happened to spot them.

When I do late night things in ATL from now on, I'm staying there.

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Peaches

I have to wash my hair.

Actually, one of the things I've been most scared of driving back alone down basically empty streets in the middle of the night happened last week: woman in Jeep flipped on the side of 575 and wasn't found for 8 hours. She was dead and her 2 kids were in there upside down for 8 hours until another driver happened to spot them.

When I do late night things in ATL from now on, I'm staying there.

If she'd followed proper etiquette, whoeever was expecting the SMS that never came would've called cops and been looking for her much sooner.

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

If she'd followed proper etiquette, whoeever was expecting the SMS that never came would've called cops and been looking for her much sooner.

Incorrect. That was tested after dinner at Roasters. No SMS sent, no posts made on the boards, no ICQs sent, nada. And no cops were called or even an attempt at contact. Yeah, that was one of the straws.

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Peaches

Incorrect. That was tested after dinner at Roasters. No SMS sent, no posts made on the boards, no ICQs sent, nada. And no cops were called or even an attempt at contact. Yeah, that was one of the straws.

Hmmmm...and do you remember the fact that I had a business emergency to tend to as the reason I skyed out of Roasters so fast? Something directly impacting two people who work for me. Something indirectly impacting most of the others who depend upon me to provide them with a paycheck that puts food on their tables, clothes on the back of their children and roofs over their head?

I spent from the time I got into the truck til about 1AM on conference calls and doing other forms of damage control. Ask GonZo or Dickinbush, both of them caught just a bit of the rant after the fact when I finally got the train back on the tracks.

Now if during all of that I inadvertently let it slip my mind to check and see if you were able to find your way from dinner to your house, then I sincerely fucking apologize.

And I know how hard it is for you to believe in best intentions of "friends" when things dont revolve around you, but believe it or not I suspect any one of us would've very quickly realized you were MIA if you didn't turn up online soon even without notification and would've send someone to find the carcass...

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

And I know how hard it is for you to believe in best intentions of "friends" when things dont revolve around you, but believe it or not I suspect any one of us would've very quickly realized you were MIA if you didn't turn up online soon even without notification and would've send someone to find the carcass...

Oh, someone did check up on me - a friend of mine

Edited to add - and no need for a lenthly explanation - like I said, it was just one straw - not the whole basket. You might think I'm dumb, but I'm not totally irrational

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Jace

haha, was someone late last week?

Actually, no. I think the real problem is several of us were 20-30 minutes early.

The place was FULL at 11:30....when I arrived, I literally took the last open parking space short of going into the dirt lot in the empty building behind the place. It starts to empty out right after that, lots more people going out than coming in. But we did have to wait 10 minutes or so for a table.

I think the moral is go ahead and at least let them know to get the table setup working. At our normal later arrivals times we've never had to wait. Midnight seems to be the magic point where it goes from slammed to starting to thin out.