What should I do now? I feel so embarrassed and I’ve put myself in such an awkward position?
There is this person I know, who lives about 1.5 hours away from me. Anyway, I am her customer but we treat each other nicely with a little less formality. She said she will have her friends over one day and would let me know when so that I join them. I just said sure without thinking much of it.
She called two or three days ago and I was not able to answer. She left a message saying to call her back and that the gathering would be today (actually, in about 2-3 hours). I never called back. I can’t go (and honestly even if I could I do not want to)… but I still should have called her back. I didn't because it’s simply not on my mind.
What should I do now? I feel so embarrassed and I’ve put myself in such an awkward position.
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you might want to call her now and apologize for not calling back. you could say you were in the middle of something and time got away from you.
you could also mention you were embarrassed for not calling back sooner.
i believe this will smooth things over.
BTW she SHOULD have given you more notice than 2 hours!
Unfortunately the feeling of embarrassment is a very accurate little gauge that you did something bad. Yes, you should have called her back and not left her wondering if you could come or not. The only thing for you to do now is to apologize without delving into great detail. A simple "I'm so sorry I didn't get back to you! I was wrapped up with something else and completely forgot to call you back. Will you take a raincheck?"
And that's about as much explaining as you should do, lest thy foot end up in thy mouth ;) I'm sure she will say "oh no problem".
You should call her back. Just let her know that you got her message late and already have plans. Let her know that perhaps the next time you will be available. You should call her back.
Not calling back sent the message you were not interested. You were not obligated to call back. As far as being invited again, that's another story.
Well that was rude and the outcome has bought on this downward spiral of yours. If you want to maintain the relationship reach out with flowers and a note saying sorry you could not attend.
Call her back, say you are sorry you were unable to attend and that it was your own mistake for not calling sooner as you did not get the message on time.
I know how you feel, but she probably just went ahead with her day being that its not like you two were that close to begin with anyway. I may be wrong but thats what i think
call her tell her u were out doing errands that dauy and didnt receive her invintation until later that night apologize and offer to do somthing together
just tell her you're sorry and that you already had plans or something. nothing to be embarrassed about