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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joethelawyer" data-source="post: 4598247" data-attributes="member: 55764">Well, granted the holiday season is a bit nuts for everyone, but it generally works like this:Me and my brother the DM, any night is fine except Thursday and Saturday night.  We even make an exception for Saturday if nothing else can work out.  The other unnamed player usually gives us 2 or 3 nights a week that work for him out of the other 5 or 6.  The last guy, the one with the problem, basically says "lemme check with the wife," which comes back as "nope, can't do it," more often than not, ever since she graduated nursing school.  Giving him the holidays nuttiness benefit of the doubt, here's an example that puts it all in perspective I think.  Our big game day of the year is the day after thanksgiving.  Its sort of a tradition that we all take off from work, and spend the entire day, like 12 hours at least, reliving the college days and just playing D&D and drinking beer all damn day.  We talk about it for like 6 months leading up to it. We plan for it for the whole year.  For example, right now, everyone knows that the Friday after turkey day, 2009, we are playing D&D all day.  It was the same understanding last year at this time.A week or less before the big day this year, we started the get rumblings that all was not well in Camelot.  We started hearing he might have something to do with relatives.  That turned into family is visiting and we may have to start later. That turned into "I can play all day, I just might have to take off for 2 hours in the middle of it" (we figure no biggie, we'll use that time to eat turkey day leftovers and watch a D&D day appropriate movie).  What ultimately ended up happening was us starting at like 11 am and ending at 4 pm.What a waste of a great potential day.  For that, I would have not taken off from work and saved a vacation day.  That pretty much sealed the deal for us that he was the wussy in the relationship.I liked the idea of suggesting we just play at his place.  That ought to force the issue.  Thx for the input and advice.Any other ideas, feel free to suggest away.</blockquote>

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