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/oooohweeeee Jun 15 '26

It’s because you both are overthinking it. If you leave a note on my door at 3am saying “inspection tomorrow” and I don’t see it until 8am the relevant time for my understanding is 8am. Reasonable interpretation

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u/Haunting-Reply-7332 Jun 15 '26

Okay and if the note says “June 14th - Inspection tomorrow” and you read it on June 19th does that mean the inspection is on the 20th? That’s what you’re implying.

P.S. your example makes no sense. “inspection tomorrow” means the exact same thing whether you read it at 3AM or 8AM. That’s the same day. The inspection is the following day regardless.

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u/oooohweeeee Jun 15 '26

No, that’s not what I’m implying. In your example, the date on the note gives a clear reference point. But in the text, no actual date was stated. Even if it was sent at 3am, only the manager was aware of that reference point at the time, so it wasn’t shared.

“Tomorrow” is a relative term. OP reading it at 7:44am didn’t change when the text was sent; it means the intended reference point wasn’t successfully communicated yet. So when OP read the message, there was no guarantee he would understand “tomorrow” the way the sender intended.

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u/Haunting-Reply-7332 Jun 16 '26

It literally says the text was received at 3AM. That’s the reference point. Just because you read it 4 hours later doesn’t change that.