What started out as a promising Facebook event everyone was attending, suddenly turned into a collection of maybes after one friend accidentally invited your ex.

“Look, the weather has been perfect, let’s get out and enjoy it,” began the event’s description. “This Thursday Kenny’s band is playing. We should all try and get out there after work around 6. We can meet at Belle’s and walk over?”

However, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, but one friend must not be a Steinbeck fan, as they Lennie’d up the whole night for everyone when they invited ‘you-know-who’.

“We all agreed that we’d still be nice to them socially, but that doesn’t mean we have to hang out with them all the time or invite them to everything,” said one friend privately. “I mean what happened to their so-called friends? Can’t they just do something with them?”

The friend in question blames the faux pas on habits, both drinking and the other use of that word. “It’s a real balancing act to be friends with both sides of a couple,” he said. “It’s like a seesaw but we’re all too old to be hanging out at playgrounds anymore.”

Old habits die hard, so we’ll probably just watch that tonight if you want to come over here instead. That or Sister Act 2?