GUEST (or one of them) asked:

So, did anyone ask if the three youngsters had something else to attend to? On a weekend most of them do. Is that a crime!

Seems to me it would have been FAR better personal relations on their part simply to say, "Gee, we wish we could stay, but we're booked at ______ half an hour from now, and we really gotta run! Thanks for listening! Or something like that. Even if the truth is that they're relieved not to have to stay.

If they had said something like that, it would have saved no end of irritation and ill will, methinks. That's what etiquette is.

Dave Oesterreich