uh, yeah, and i really will be making it to the picnic. 4-5 hrs after 7:08am is 11:08-12:08. could be dressed and ready for the picnic from then within an hour.
The point would be that we ride and picnic, most likely ride and then picnic. I'm not going to make a federal case about it but if you don't see why the people organizing the picnic would be annoyed with people planning group rides that overlap and using the site to plug that rude, then I'm sure nothing I say will make it any clearer.
This is kind of symptomatic of what I see as a problem with the group rides with a lot of people on the site. People will weigh their options and blow off someone they agreed to ride with because something "better" came along. Ironic that RyderX and I were having this conversation on PM a while ago.