I'm such an idiot sometimes!

[mandolin]

Okay, stupid rant ahead.

Like I said, I was MIA from work most of yesterday afternoon because of the picnic. I get an e-mail in my mailbox inviting me to a co-worker's birthday lunch "tomorrow" - which I initially take to mean today.

So I put out a request to carpool with someone willing to be back by 1 pm. I have a meeting.

Three hours pass. No one replies. Which is weird because there's always someone willing to carpool.

Bored, I check the calendar, wondering if I can run an errand beforehand or if I should forget about it.
The calendar shows it on SATURDAY.

No wonder no one replied, I figure, and decide that I might as well just go run my errands and be back to meet people at the cafeteria.

I go out. Run errand that I would have been able to leave for earlier if I knew the lunch was Saturday. Takes annoyingly longer than expected. Get back, go down to cafeteria. No one is there.

Back to my desk. I look at the calendar again.

The organizer scheduled it at 11:40 pm on Friday to 1 pm Saturday - instead of the 11:40 am - 1 pm Friday that it was supposed to be. Her retraction e-mail only said, "Oh, I meant 11:40 am," so I took it to mean 11:40 am on Saturday. (But we have never, EVER, had a birthday lunch on a Saturday. Ever. Someone with common sense would have processed this, but me? No.)

Guess where everyone was?

It was 12:30 pm when I discovered this, called her on her cell and tried to find out what was going on, came off as a bitch, then wished co-worker a happy birthday.

I now have 20 minutes to inhale my lunch and get ready for the meeting.

GAH!

I need chocolate.

(EDIT: No, wait, said meeting is Thursday. So I probably ruined the birthday lunch by causing a scene for absolutely nothing.)

I'm an idiot.

*wanders off*

Comments

[brooklynx.livejournal.com]

*pats ands passes chocolate*

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*pours a large glass of baileys*

Here. Sounds like you could use this.

*huggles*

(And it really isn't your fault; while you might have got your day wrong, she was the one who made a complete and utter horlicks of it).

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily. The fact that no one commented on it being scheduled for Saturday, and the fact that she did say "tomorrow" on the Thursday e-mail, not to mention the fact that we always do these kind of things on weekdays, should have clued me in. I mean, really - in the past two years, we've never organized a birthday lunch on a Saturday.

Whatever - I apologized to too many people, apologized again when I discovered that only three people at the table noticed the phone call, and I've been told not to worry about it.

[kevenn.livejournal.com]

It's ok. Mistakes happen sometimes. I'mve even been known to make some before! (GASP!)