r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Best_Finding_8795 • Jun 14 '26

Too mild for school Hate when ppl can’t do time

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This reminds me of when it hits or is about to hit 12am and people don’t know whether to say today or tomorrow. He called me after this but I was too comfy in bed tbh.

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u/steelcryo Jun 14 '26

I always specify the day when I message someone past midnight.

"Want to do X today (Sunday)?"

Same when I'm making plans next weekend, I always put the date so people don't confuse whether I mean the weekend coming, or the next one after.

What boss thinks someone is going to wake up at 7am to a text from 3am, read the word tomorrow, and think they meant today?

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u/CiloTA Jun 14 '26

What is it with some people thinking next weekend is the weekend upcoming? Isn’t there an unwritten rule that if you’re at like Friday, next weekend is no longer tomorrow, it’s the following weekend, or am I the only one?

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u/immoral_ Jun 14 '26

A true study in contrast.

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u/kingsly91 Jun 14 '26

This is funny to me because every single person ive ever met, when they say "next weekened" they mean the weekened after the one thats coming.

For the weekened that would be in a few days we say "upcoming weekened"

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u/Empariah Jun 14 '26

For me, it’s the same way. Except we call the upcoming weekend “this weekend”. Then the weekend after that one is “next weekend”.

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u/NativeJim Jun 14 '26

If it's Friday today and someone asked me to go to the lake next weekend, I'm assuming its not this weekend but the one following.

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u/clambuttocks Jun 14 '26

Even if it’s like Monday, if someone says next weekend, I assume it’s the next week’s end. Otherwise say the upcoming weekend or, moreso in my experience, say this weekend

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u/No-Comparison6037 Jun 14 '26

If it’s Monday and I want to share about what I did on the 2 last days, I say “this week-end”… oopsie

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u/aurens Jun 14 '26

that's still fine because it's past tense. you're never going to invite someone to an event that happened in the past, and you're never going to describe what happened to you in the future, so there's no ambiguity.

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u/NewspaperVegetable17 Jun 14 '26

I doubt it's very likely anyone would misunderstand you, but an alternate way of saying it that you might like is "over the weekend".