In today's Dear Annie column, Annie Lane tries to put a reader at ease over a choice she made in her younger days to go to an event without her tardy friend.
Annie Lane advises today's reader to stop feeling guilty about going to an event without a friend who was running late and how she, hopefully, learned a valuable lesson from the experience.Dear Annie: When I was a teenager, I had a big dilemma, and I would like to know how you would have solved it. My closest friend, “Joanne,” lived just a few minutes away but had terrible punctuality when it came to getting together.
Anyway, one day I had tickets for the two of us to see some event together , and as usual, she was very late getting to my house. I waited as long as I could before I finally called her. This was in the ‘90s, long before we all had cellphones. Her sister answered and told me Joanne had taken a babysitting job and was not home. Frustrated but short on time, I called up my friend “Katie” and asked if she wanted to go to the event with me.
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