RSVP or not?

I think you guys are making a big fuss over nothing.

I always Remove Shoes Very Promptly when I visit someone's house but no-one seems to care.

Maybe folks think it's normal to wear shoes in the house.

Trans_Maro wrote: I think you guys are making a big fuss over nothing. I always Remove Shoes Very Promptly when I visit someone's house but no-one seems to care. Maybe folks think it's normal to wear shoes in the house.

Well, this is a forum based in the US... that's a thing, right?

DrBoost wrote:

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: It seems like the folks in my age group (around 30) have too much going on in their lives to commit so soon

Maybe it's because I'm a decade past 30, but I don't get this mentality. If I am invited to something on the 30th of a given month I'll look at my calendar. If I don't have anything going, I'll commit.....because I don't have anything going. To say "I'm soo busy I don't know if I can go on that day, even though nothing else is planned" is stoopid.

That's a product of the "new" way of parenting, where parents are completely immersed/intertwined in their childrens' lives to the point where they do nothing but shuttle them to/sit at their childrens' activities.

Trans_Maro wrote: I think you guys are making a big fuss over nothing. I always Remove Shoes Very Promptly when I visit someone's house but no-one seems to care. Maybe folks think it's normal to wear shoes in the house.

This is a spinoff thread that would likely cause a major stir.

Snow/rain notwithstanding, 99% of the people I know don't care about shoes on in the house (this covers New England, New York, New Jersey)

If you want to increase the number of RSVPs, include an email address or other means of sending it in an electronic manner. Lots of people HATE having to mail something but they are in front of their computers for many hours each day.

If asked to RSVP, I will generally respond.

I do not generally respond to Facebook event Going/Not/Maybe, though, as I do not like to post times when I'll be a particular place or not at home on the Internet. From that standpoint a Maybe is no better than a Going. If it's something that involves calculating how much cake to bring or something like that, I'll drop the organizer a note.

I'm bummed linguistically that we say our action is "to RSVP" since RSVP is a request to "répondez s’il vous plaît", or "respond, please". We don't RSVP, we respond to an RSVP. I know, we've reached the point where it is the common usage, but with the root sitting right there, I find it irritating.

Brett_Murphy wrote: If you want to increase the number of RSVPs, include an email address or other means of sending it in an electronic manner. Lots of people HATE having to mail something but they are in front of their computers for many hours each day.

What if the invite is e-mailed? Then you only have to hit reply. It appears that this is still too difficult a task for many.