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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
My wife invited her whole extended family over for dinner tonight ... and I just got a call from someone offering me a pair of Club seats for the game. Looking for clever, ingenious ways of wiggling my way out of the dinner without getting into a marital problem.
CP Brain Trust, HELP!
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Watch any sitcom ever made and you will find examples of how to be in two places at once. Expect hilarity to ensue. The key will be to remember to take your Flames jersey off when you get to the dinner party.
TV trope:
A character schedules dates with two different people at the same time. Rather than cancelling one of the dates, the character tries to attend both simultaneously, constantly running back and forth between the two locations while making up various reasons to excuse themselves to avoid letting either party know where they are going.
Can also apply to other scheduling conflicts, where the character tries to juggle an event that he's required to attend, versus a more personal event that he really#wants#to attend.
If one of these scenes has a#dress code#of some form, expect a character to be caught wearing the outfit for one event at the other.
Sometimes, the character ends up spurning the big personal event altogether, to deal with the other commitment:
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