Texts to Cancel Plans
12 Flaky Texts We All Send to Get Out of Plans
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We've all been there before — it's a regular Tuesday night and you just want to watch Netflix and stay in bed, though your friends want you try a new restaurant with them. So you do what everyone else does: come up with an excuse, a white lie, and stay warm in bed, deliriously happy not to be outside.
If you've run out of excuses or just need a handy list for the next time you need to flake, we've come up with the most popular and accepted texts we send. Sure, honesty is the best policy but sometimes you want to keep it to yourself that you're rewatching Gilmore Girls again.
1 Blaming the other person
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2 Using the grandma/grandpa emoji
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3 Showing how sad you are to miss out
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4 Being as vague as possible
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5 Pretending you don't have a spare charger
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6 Blaming transportation
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7 Lying through your teeth
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8 Using your best friend as a clutch excuse
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9 Pretending to type back but not actually doing so
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10 Responding 10 hours later
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11 Playing the parent card
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12 Pretending like you're going to sleep early . . .
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