The story of the vanishing progressive dinner

Where are you guys, asked Mum of the Relief Society lady after she (Mum, with Spencer in particular, and some miscellaneous family members too) had spent those 15 hours and $75 or so dollars getting the yard all nice, and getting and setting up all those extra chairs and the shade tent, and making all those cucumber sandwiches with the spread and the one herb that gets visibly stuck up in your teeth, and also that cheese and tomatoes and oil/vinegar hors d'oeuvre, and the fancy kind of lemonade with the mint leaves interspersed.

Oh, said the Relief Society lady (and not without some creditable embarrassment and regret). Didn't we tell you? We changed it to next week ...