Denial

I never sleep until 11:00 a.m. Ever.

Well this past Shabbos I did.

The only problem was that I didn’t know I was missing a very important shul event at 9:00.

One that only takes place (hopefully) once in a person’s life. A chassan being called up to the Torah.

It was a Shabbos sheva brachos for close family. But as Ashkenazim call the groom up the week before the wedding I had no idea that Sephardim call up the chassan during the week of sheva brachos.

So when I rolled into the house of the bride and groom at 11:30 where everybody met after shul I was bombarded with “Where were you? We were all looking for you!”