Your Official Guide To Cancelling Plans

Home is where your heart (and sweatpants and Netflix) is

- Caroline Moss

Raise your hand if this sounds familiar: it’s Tuesday morning and you’ve just finished your second coffee. You’re on top of the world because you already reached inbox zero and it looks like you’ll be able to head out of work at a reasonable hour. Hell. Yes. Around lunchtime, a friend Gchats you, ‘Drinks tonight?’ and you automatically reply with a resounding ‘Yah!!!’ But come 5.30, your pep has worn off and all you want to do is unhook your bra, watch a true-crime doc, and scroll mindlessly through Insta. Fuuuck.

You have options: you can say you feel sick (an obvious lie lobbed by so many), you can say you got slammed with a last-minute project (less obvious but still overused), or you could rally and go meet your friend even though you might be miz (a favourite option of people pleasers everywhere).