Someone doesn't feel like driving to meet with the HS friends this Saturday, at Red Robin. Out of the group that may be going as well, he has met with only one, besides me. The rest of the bunch he hasn't seen for a while. But the restaurant is "too far away" -- about a 20 minute drive from where he lives.

If he doesn't consider their friendship worth maintaining, or if he doesn't really consider them to be friends, his declining to come to lunch would be understandable. But when his reasons are framed in terms of... sloth? It just sounds bad to my ears.

It is easy to be "generous" with money, when one has a lot of it. But giving something else can be a true test of character.