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Originally Posted by Jim Kata
I guess I'm just gonna go with the truth after speaking to Steve and Jeff.
I'll just let Allen know what days we are going to be there, but I probably can't help him with lodging or transportation.
I feel sort of dickish about it, but I am going as a guest and not a host so I feel that I am asking for too much for myself (transporation and lodging) as it is.
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Well, i have to weigh in and say i think this is the best route... However if you just plain don't want him there...
you could always take the route that this is a bonding type trip and you've had it planned for a length of time and tell him that honestly, he's probably not going to feel very welcomed. make it clear to him that you're not in charge of the trip and you feel uncomfortable saying yea or nay to him since you're going as a guest.
If he wants to have the balls to call up a person he doesn't know and invite himself, then let him, but don't help him kinda leech off you guys, it's Your trip.
As to why he has chosen to invite himself along, I think some people just don't have the same social boundaries others do... it's an interesting thing.
Don't feel like you're being a dick, because you're not at all... in fact, i think you've been very polite, had it been me, i would have just said he was kinda butting in on our plans and that he wasn't welcome. So i don't think you need to feel bad at all, you've been very kind about it.
sweetpea