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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 5585811" data-attributes="member: 3649">All of us are professionals with demanding jobs, but none of us are on swing-shifts or anything like that; we're mostly 8-5 M-F people. With two exceptions, all of us are married. Two have small kids, two have adult kids. We play once a week and it's unusual that anything interferes with this because of one simple principle: We've all accepted that a commitment to an entertainment activity is of equal importance to any other type of commitment. It's not treated as the thing you do only if you don't have/find anything better to do. It's a plan like any of the other various plans we make during the week, and exists on the same 'level' of priorities as the vast number of other things. You would not allow a spur-of-the-moment thing to disrupt your kid's Sweet Sixteen party, and so we don't have members who  suddenly decide it's a good thing to blow off Game Night to go to the movies or get drunk or whatever.The various husbands/wives/boyfriends/SO's are also on board with this philosophy. They know not to pull plans out of their ass at the last moment; really, anything worth doing is also able to be planned and scheduled at least a week in advance. That anniversary trip? Sure, that's something that you should take off for but at the same time it's not like the anniversary date sneaks up on you at a different day every year. It's right there on the calendar, so you can tell people 'I'm not going to be here in three weeks' rather than call up five minutes before go-time to tell us you're not coming.On the other hand, none of our members are so anal about such a date that they MUST take off on that exact date. This year, an anniversary date falls on game night this year. The couple is going the next day, so everyone can be happy with the least amount of disruption. The only thing that trump it are the normal things that trump all other plans --  unexpectedly sick kids is a great example, for the couple that have small kids. We've long since weeded out the people who are too insecure so as to demand that their plans are inviolate and should be made without an eye to this thing that - for most of our members - is the main entertainment they get during a week.</blockquote>

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