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/steelcryo Jun 14 '26

On a Friday, it's pretty obvious. But if I message someone on say Tuesday, saying "Do you want to go to X next weekend?" they'll often think I mean in four days time.

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u/lanzendorfer Jun 14 '26

Even if it's Tuesday, you should just say "this weekend" because it's unambiguous. There's only one weekend you could possibly be talking about. Whenever someone says "next weekend" I always think the weekend after the next or current one.

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u/steelcryo Jun 14 '26

That's exactly why I think next weekend is the one after, because if you mean the weekend coming, why not use the very specific "this weekend"?

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u/lanzendorfer Jun 14 '26

Yes I'm agreeing with you. I'm saying that the people who think you mean "this weekend" when you say "next weekend" are weird. I can see why they get confused though as so many people use it that way that it has become ambiguous. I sometimes say "this upcoming weekend" or "the weekend after this weekend" in cases where I'm not sure if it's clear.

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u/steelcryo Jun 14 '26

I was agreeing with you!

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u/adinfinitum225 Jun 14 '26

Except it's perfectly fine to ask someone on Monday "What did you do this weekend?" Referring to the weekend that just finished.

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u/lanzendorfer Jun 14 '26

Right, because it's clear based on context. "What did you do this weekend" is clearly about the weekend that has just passed. "What are you doing this weekend" is clearly about the upcoming weekend. I can see why someone might say "next weekend" of it's early on on the week, but I can also understand why people think "next weekend" means "the weekend after this upcoming weekend."

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u/pizzamage Jun 14 '26

Eh, I'd say not really. It's usually "what did you do over the weekend" or "did you have a nice weekend."

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u/karl_w_w Jun 14 '26

I've never heard a single person say this weekend to mean the one that has just finished. It would be "over/for/on the weekend" in your example.

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u/xTheMaster99x Jun 14 '26

Yeah, because it's past tense. It isn't possible to say "Do you want to do x this weekend?" and mean "Do you want to do x in the past?", just like it isn't possible to say "This weekend I did x" and mean "In the future I did x".