Why are Statics so difficult sometimes?

[TyrTry]

Hello beautiful people!

This is partly a rant/vent/humor topic, so hang in there!

About 3 months ago, I set down with a few of my FC members (members I've known for a few years), and decided it was time to make our own static (I've tried statics in the past, but never found one to my liking or couldn't make the time allocated).

Now, we set ground rules and agreed on meeting times. And it wasn't before long until everything exploded into absolute chaos.

We set times in which we could meet (95% of us are working adults), annnnnnnd people would skip out or had an appointment or fell asleep or grandma died or grandma revived. This happened many times typically with the same people. Grandma must have died at least 16 times.

It took us several weeks to complete one tier of Delta savage because of the countless absents and people not learning the fight on their own. Finally, when I said something about possible removal of certain members from the static (not the FC, just the Savage group until they were ready) things really hit the fan. People started to point fingers at each other, saying "so and so was doing this" "so and so was doing nothing" "so and so is being a power troll" etc. etc. I honestly felt like I was back in middle school.

The FC started to break a little after the confrontations and members started to leave from the static as well as the FC. I lost some weight and hair (not really, but I felt like I did). I'm not sure what went wrong, but I've been trying to accommodate for past mistakes and trying to modify times and changes to help each static member. I just don't understand why the process had to be so difficult, and I was wondering if any of you had your own static horror stories or challenges before you finally got one settled int the ground.