The Tommy Boy Syndrome

It's so hard to tell if it's a real emergency isn't it? Of course, if someone says they are sick, you tend to believe them & who would want to go on a date where the other person is hacking & sneezing? And then there's the sickness of other people, family emergency, pipes freezing, my car broke down...since all these things could possibly happen, and most people are sincere, you don't want to think that people could be lying rats. But if someone kept putting me off, I would just lose interest anyway. Because you do tend to get excited at the beginning and then after the cancellations, the enthusiasm just goes down.