Domino has a friend from out of state visiting two hours away.  She’d love to get together but is scheduled to work each day between now and the end of the year. She’s working extra hours because she’s savings $$ for something she wants in January.  Each day her friend asks her when they are getting together.  Domino won’t tell him she’s working each day, she just says she’ll be disappointed if they don’t get to connect.   She tells me that if it’s meant to be, it will happen.  I kinda think part of that “if it’s meant to be” is letting her friend know her schedule so he can decide whether he can drive to her for morning coffee rather than thinking she’s just blowing him off.  Disappointed is what her friend will be when he learns she knew her schedule when he first asked.  I don’t like to leave people hanging. That’s why it’s always easy for me to say a quick no when it has to be a no.