Reply #27: One thing I have noticed about young adults these days

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is how readily people in that age group "ditch" each other (what my generation would have called being stood up).

I have several friends in their twenties, and they are always talking about getting ditched. What that means is that people make plans with them, and then just don't show up, or they call at the last minute and say they can't make it. They don't usually even offer a plausible excuse. At least in the days when ditching was called standing up the stander-upper felt the need to make up a resonable excuse. But now everyone is supposed to understand that if something better comes along, they will get ditched. No one is supposed to take offense at it, either.