Regrets Only
What's the deal with getting an invitation and the response is Regrets Only? The last two invites I've received were just that. Dictionary.com has "invite" as "to ask for the presence or participation of". This means the inviter is asking and not assuming the invitee will come. So if the invitee opts out, then he has to respond. Why in the world should an invitee respond to something he's not planning to do?Take this logic to say going to a restaurant, you open the menu and you are ordering everything unless you tell the waitress no to each item listed. I think the Regrets Only is just a way to intimidate those who cannot say no and making those who say no stand out in the inviter's mind so the inviter can say, "Oh, so you weren't able to make it to the party last time."
Last, if you don't agree with my comments, you MUST respond that you object and regretably so. Otherwise, you are in total agreement with all that I've just said.
posted by Mercy Now @ 9:28 PM
6 Comments:
The only regret is getting the Regrets Only invitation. I guess you can write "I don't regret checking the Regrets Only box" or simply not reply at all for saying Regrets Only when you're not would be a big fat lie!
Hey, what happened to Ralph's pic?
THBBBPPPT!
Agreed, by the way--opt out is pretty silly in a lot of areas.
You make such a good point. The default is total acceptance of everything, when it has been traditionally assumed that the default position of, in this case, not responding to the invite, would be that you were not coming.
It seems like a setup for the person to give you a guilt trip later. "Why didn't you come to my party? You didn't respond so I assumed you were coming."
Mercy Now, I'm curious why you have a pic of V as your pic (avy-type-thing)?
I was gonna use Batman but like Guy Fawkes' mask better (although I am not for Fawkes by any means). It's more like we all wear masks to some degree.
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