more about: last-minute invitations

Last Friday I was talking to a friend about her plans for the weekend. She mentioned, with clear irritation, that she’d been invited to a friend’s birthday party that was happening the very next day. I asked her why she sounded so annoyed, and she said there’s nothing ruder than being invited to a party the day before it’s supposed to occur. Obviously, she reasoned, she wasn’t really wanted at the party to begin with, or she would have been invited long before. “It’s so clearly a B-List situation,” she said. “Or even C-List.”