When someone insists they want to be a part of something, and makes a big fuss, and you plan for them to attend and then they cancel like two hours before, not because they are sick or something but because they magically want to do something else all of a sudden.
Like, that would have been nice to know about yesterday when buying stuff for this....
Like, this is why we normally don't host things because of this very thing that happens...
Good thing tickets weren't involved like they were going to be..